February 29, 2024 — Take a closer look at the most recent data on selected professionals, including nurses and physicians, with an interactive tool, data tables and detailed methodology notes.
Quick Stats
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 for Canada’s physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. This tool also includes interactive data tables with selected hospital staffing indicators, including overtime rates and sick leave in hospitals, as well new vacancy metrics.
Data tables
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 information for physicians is available for both the recent period and a historical span of 51 years. Physician payment and service utilization information is available for both the recent period and a historical span of 24 years.
Methodology notes
These notes are meant for all data users. They summarize the sources, definitions, strengths and limitations of the data available.