Go in depth: 2023 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 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.

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.

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

• State of the health workforce in Canada, 2022
• Health workforce in Canada: Overview
• Number of physicians and nurses per 10,000 population by health region, 2021