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Health care and social assistance: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Health care and social assistance. All 10 provinces and territories with data in Employment by industry by province, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0023-01. 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: 2026-11-03

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National value: 13.8 (Canada).

Lowest: 12.4 to 14 %
Group 2: 14 to 16.4 %
Group 3: 16.4 to 16.8 %
Group 4: 16.8 to 17.1 %
Highest: 17.1 to 19.3 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Newfoundland and Labrador	19.3
2	Prince Edward Island	17.1
3	New Brunswick	16.8
3	Manitoba	16.8
5	Saskatchewan	16.6
6	Nova Scotia	16.4
7	Quebec	14.6
8	British Columbia	14
9	Alberta	13.1
10	Ontario	12.4

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0023-01: Labour force characteristics by industry, annual. Reference period: 2025.

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Canadian provinces and territories ranked by health care and social assistance (2025). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0023-01; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-health-care-and-social-assistance/

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