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Between mid-2022 and early 2024, Canada's unemployment rate increased by 1.6%, a rise historically associated with recessionary periods in Canada since the 1970s. This increase, though smaller relative to its prior major recessions, was considered significant given its emergence from post-pandemic record lows.
The list of Canadian provinces by unemployment rate are statistics that directly refer to the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. Below is a comparison of the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by province/territory, sortable by name or unemployment rate. Data provided by Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey. [1]
U.S. unemployment rate and employment to population ratio (EM ratio) Wage share and employment rate in the U.S. Employment-to-population ratio, also called the employment rate, [1] is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often given for ages 15 to 64 [2] [3]) that is employed
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's unemployment rate rose more than expected to 6.8% in November, a near-eight-year high excluding the pandemic years, even as the economy added a net 50,500 jobs, data ...
In September 2018 approximately 452,900 people were deemed unemployed in Ontario. With an Unemployment rate of roughly 5.9% Ontario is even with the Canada's overall unemployment level. The Unemployment rate is quite stable from month to month with an approximate 0.2% fluctuation. Since 2013 Ontario's Unemployment rate has dropped 2.0%.
At the height of the 2008–2009 recession in Canada, unemployment peaked at 8.3 percent. [38] The subprime mortgage crisis and the 2007–2009 which followed, increased the unemployment rate to a peak of 10% in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has been steadily falling. It reached 5% in December 2015.
It moved in a range of 1.4094 to 1.4175, holding just short of the 4-1/2-year low it posted on Nov. 26 at 1.4177. The Australian and New Zealand dollars also notched gains.
The Canadian economy added twice as many jobs as expected in December and the unemployment rate hit a 22-month low, official data showed on Friday, though the survey was taken before the Omicron ...