Home › Rankings

Wholesale and retail trade: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Wholesale and retail trade. 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

Download full table CSV Source: Statistics Canada (opens in a new tab)

National value: 14.2 (Canada).

Lowest: 12 to 13.9 %
Group 2: 13.9 to 14.3 %
Group 3: 14.3 to 14.8 %
Group 4: 14.8 to 15.8 %
Highest: 15.8 to 15.8 %

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	15.8
1	Saskatchewan	15.8
3	Nova Scotia	15
4	British Columbia	14.8
5	New Brunswick	14.4
6	Quebec	14.3
7	Ontario	14
8	Alberta	13.9
9	Manitoba	13.7
10	Prince Edward Island	12

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

Cite this ranking

Canadian provinces and territories ranked by wholesale and retail trade (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-wholesale-and-retail-trade/

Download source table CSV All rankings