Home › Rankings

Women+'s participation rate: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Women+'s participation rate (%). All 10 provinces and territories with data in Employment of women and men by province, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01. 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: 2026-11-09

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

National value: 61.1 (Canada).

Lowest: 54.6 to 57.5 %
Group 2: 57.5 to 60.6 %
Group 3: 60.6 to 61.9 %
Group 4: 61.9 to 63.3 %
Highest: 63.3 to 63.6 %

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.

Note: Labour Force Survey annual averages for the ten provinces; the territories are surveyed separately.


1	Alberta	63.6
2	Saskatchewan	63.3
3	Prince Edward Island	62.3
4	Manitoba	61.9
5	Quebec	61.6
6	Ontario	60.6
6	British Columbia	60.6
8	Nova Scotia	57.5
9	New Brunswick	57.3
10	Newfoundland and Labrador	54.6

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01: Labour force characteristics by gender and detailed age group, annual. Reference period: 2025.

Cite this ranking

Canadian provinces and territories ranked by women+'s participation rate (%) (2025). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-women-plus-s-participation-rate/

Download source table CSV All rankings