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Fertility rate, total: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Fertility rate, total (children per female). All 13 provinces and territories with data in Fertility and birth rates by province and territory, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Source: Statistics Canada, Table 13-10-0418-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence (Open Government Licence – Canada).
Data last updated: 2026-10-27

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National value: 1.26 (Canada).

Lowest: 1.02 to 1.07
Group 2: 1.07 to 1.21
Group 3: 1.21 to 1.28
Group 4: 1.28 to 1.5
Highest: 1.5 to 2.4

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Nunavut	2.4
2	Saskatchewan	1.58
3	Manitoba	1.5
4	Alberta	1.42
5	Quebec	1.36
6	Northwest Territories	1.28
7	Ontario	1.23
8	New Brunswick	1.21
9	Prince Edward Island	1.18
10	Newfoundland and Labrador	1.08
11	Nova Scotia	1.07
12	British Columbia	1.04
13	Yukon	1.02

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 13-10-0418-01: Crude birth rate, age-specific fertility rates and total fertility rate (live births). Reference period: 2025.

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Canadian provinces and territories ranked by fertility rate, total (children per female) (2025). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 13-10-0418-01; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-fertility-rate-total-children-per-female/

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