Canada Employment Rate

Employment Rate in Canada increased to 62 percent in August from 61.90 percent in July of 2019. Employment Rate in Canada averaged 60.35 percent from 1976 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 63.70 percent in February of 2008 and a record low of 56 percent in December of 1982.

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Canada Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	5.70	5.70	13.10	2.90	percent	[+]
Employed Persons	19111.50	19030.40	19111.50	9636.70	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	1160.10	1149.90	1748.90	691.50	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	57.20	-12.60	136.30	-124.40	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	23.80	-11.60	148.40	-145.10	Thousand	[+]
Employment Change	81.10	-24.20	106.50	-124.80	Thousand	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	65.80	65.60	67.70	61.40	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	11.50	11.40	20.70	10.00	percent	[+]
Productivity	106.30	106.09	106.56	67.27	Index Points	[+]
Labour Costs	108.85	108.10	108.85	43.75	Index Points	[+]
Wages	25.74	25.71	25.75	13.73	CAD/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	25.89	25.90	26.37	14.96	CAD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	14.00	14.00	14.00	1.00	CAD/Hour	[+]
Population	37.31	36.96	37.31	17.91	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00		[+]
Wage Growth	2.50	3.40	5.50	-0.40	percent	[+]
Job Vacancies	506140.00	547330.00	550670.00	330215.00		[+]
Living Wage Family	2580.00	2640.00	2640.00	2440.00	CAD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1930.00	1960.00	1960.00	1790.00	CAD/Month	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	16925.70	16936.30	16936.30	10863.80	Thousand	[+]
Adp Employment Change	49.30	30.20	74.00	-21.20	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	28.81	28.99	28.99	15.88	CAD	[+]
Employment Rate	62.00	61.90	63.70	56.00	percent	[+]

In Canada, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. This page provides - Canada Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Canada Employment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	62.00	61.90	63.70	56.00	1976 - 2019	percent	Monthly	SA

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
Mexico	96.29	Jul/19	96.43	97.23 : 93.58	%
Switzerland	79.90	Mar/19	80.6	81.3 : 76.9	%
Netherlands	77.70	Mar/19	77.9	77.9 : 63.5	%
Germany	76.30	Mar/19	76.5	76.5 : 63.6	%
United Kingdom	76.10	Jun/19	76.1	76.1 : 65.6	%
France	66.00	Jun/19	66.1	66.1 : 63.5	%
Spain	64.49	Jun/19	63.58	67.18 : 54.91	%
Australia	62.70	Aug/19	62.6	62.9 : 54	%
Canada	62.00	Aug/19	61.9	63.7 : 56	%
South Korea	61.40	Aug/19	61.5	61.6 : 56.1	%
United States	60.90	Aug/19	60.7	64.7 : 55	%
Japan	60.70	Jul/19	60.8	65.4 : 55.9	%
Russia	59.70	Jul/19	59.4	66.6 : 58.8	%
Italy	59.10	Jul/19	59.2	59.2 : 55.3	%
Brazil	54.70	Jul/19	54.6	57.3 : 53.1	%
India	46.80	Dec/18	47.8	50.8 : 46.8	%
Turkey	45.60	Jun/19	45.4	47.9 : 38.9	%
Argentina	42.60	Jun/19	42.3	43.4 : 36.3	%
South Africa	42.44	Jun/19	42.56	46.17 : 41	%