Go in depth: 2021 health workforce data

This interactive tool is ideal for workforce planners, health service managers and analysts who want to easily create customized visualizations. Explore and compare key metrics on supply (i.e., those who are licensed to practise), workforce (i.e., those working in a profession-specific job), direct care and inflow/outflow, as well as provincial and territorial trends of Canada’s physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. This tool also includes new interactive data tables with selected hospital staffing indicators, including overtime rates and full-time equivalents in hospitals, as well as graduate migration patterns for physicians and nurses.

These tables are meant for analysts, researchers and those who want to explore and analyze the aggregate data. There are 10 years of supply, workforce, employment, education and demographic trends for Canada’s nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. Supply and distribution of physicians are available for both the recent period and a historical span of 52 years. For physician payment and service utilization information, data is available for the recent period as well as a historical span of 26 years.

These notes are meant for all data users. They summarize the sources, definitions, strengths and limitations of the data available.

The downloads directly below include the 2021 health workforce data that was used to inform the findings in that year’s report. To view the most recent health workforce data on selected professionals and this year’s report, please see The state of the health workforce in Canada, 2022  below.  

Use the links below to access the most recent health workforce data on selected professionals and the 2022 report.

• Health workforce in Canada: Overview