Provincial Comparisons — Job Creation

Last Updat­ed on 2026-04-08

In order to put New Brunswick­’s job cre­ation (or lack there­of) into per­spec­tive, the plot below shows the num­ber of per­sons employed at a giv­en month/year in oth­er provinces, as well as in Cana­da as a whole.

Data come from Sta­tis­tics Cana­da Table: 14–10-0287–01 and are adjust­ed for sea­son­al­i­ty. Shad­ed peri­ods rep­re­sent eco­nom­ic reces­sions. Select for a range of years, province, work­ing pop­u­la­tion (15 years of age and old­er), size of avail­able labour force, and num­ber of per­sons employed.