In the first quarter of 2026, Québec’s real gross domestic product (GDP) was up 0.3% from the previous quarter (-0.1%). At an annualized rate, this was a 1.3% increase.

Imports were down 3.2% in April 2026 from March (-0.2% in March).

Approximately 93% of businesses reported having at least one eco-responsible business practice in place in 2024, up from 87% in 2022 and 82% in 2019.

On dénombre environ 109 100 postes vacants au Québec. Par rapport au même trimestre de 2025, ce nombre est en baisse de plus de 6 400 (− 5,6 %).

In Québec, 27% of people aged 15 and over are informal caregivers, or about 2,076,300 people.

Since 2022, the Institut de la statistique du Québec has been measuring Québec society’s progress by taking into account what matters to people, such as health, education, the environment, and material conditions.

The production volume of the Québec audiovisual industry rebounded to $2.98 billion in 2024-2025, up 5% (+$132 million) from the previous year. 

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 592 200. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,6 %.

Nearly 10% of young people aged 15 to 29 in Québec—about 147,000 people—were not in employment, education or training (NEET) in 2023-2024. In 1997-1998, the proportion of NEET youth was 17%.

According to preliminary data, per capita disposable income in current dollars  posted stronger growth in 2024 than in 2023 in Québec’s administrative regions, except in Nord-du-Québec where growth has slowed. 

In 2025, Québec movie theatres recorded 11.5 million admissions, down 15% from 2024 (13.5 million) and 39% from 2019 (18.7 million), the pre-pandemic reference year.

Cumulative total for the first two months of 2026: Québec’s real GDP down 0.1%.

Approximately 4.9% of businesses with five or more employees were committed to  formal sustainability strategy in 2025.

Statistical portrait of prejudice towards poverty and people living in poverty, from the perspective of both the general population and those affected.

Québec’s international merchandise imports down 5.0% in March 2026.

Québec’s population was estimated at 9.03 million people on January 1, 2026. According to preliminary data, after exceptionally strong growth from 2022 to 2024, the population decreased slightly (-0.1%) in 2025.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 579 000 (– 43 300, ou – 0,9 % par rapport au mois précédent). Le taux de chômage se fixe à 6,2 % (+ 0,8 point de pourcentage).

Québec’s real GDP down 0.7% in January 2026 over January 2025.

Children born in the early 2020s are more likely than those born in the late 1990s to have had an adult in their home read to them every day, whether at the age of 5 months (39% vs. 21%), 1 ½ years (61% vs. 47%), or 2 ½ years (65% vs. 40%). 

Imports were up 1.0% in February 2026 from January.

In Québec, in 2025, 17% of people used cannabis, up from 14% in 2018, before legalization. This was revealed in the Québec Cannabis Survey 2025 report released today by the Institut de la statistique du Québec.

En mars 2026, le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 622 300 (+ 9 900, ou + 0,2 % par rapport au mois précédent). Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,4 % (– 0,5 point de pourcentage). 

In 2021, in Québec, the share of university graduates  who obtained their highest educational qualification in a field of study  related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) was 24.6%. 

Québec’s international merchandise exports, seasonally adjusted and in constant dollars, were down 8.1% in January 2026 after two consecutive monthly increases (+4.1% in December 2025 and +3.3% in November 2025).

In the fourth quarter of 2025, Québec’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices was down 0.1% from the third quarter (+0.1%). 

In 2023-2024, total spending on culture by the Québec government stood at $3 billion, up 22% from 2022-2023. 

En février 2026, le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 612 400 (–  57 300, ou – 1,2 % par rapport au mois précédent). Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,9 % (+ 0,7 point de pourcentage).

Québec’s international merchandise exports, seasonally adjusted and in constant dollars, were up 2.9% in December 2025 from the previous month (+3.0% in November). 

Infections are just as common at 2 ½ years of age as they are at 1 ½ years: nearly half (48%) of toddlers had at least four infections (ear infection, stomach flu, cold with fever, etc.) over a 12-month period. 

In 2025, the number of jobs increased by 79,000 (+1.7%) to about 4,645,000 jobs in Québec. 

Final sales of new books by Québec retailers, publishers and book distributors totalled $705 million in 2024, a 4.1% increase from 2023 ($677 million).

Cumulative total for the first eleven months of 2025: Québec’s real GDP up 0.7%.

Renter households in market housing units are more mobile than other households: 54% of them changed residence between 2017 and 2022.

Québec’s international merchandise imports up 5.2% in November 2025.

Nearly 21,000 paying professional performing arts performances took place in Québec in 2024, with attendance totalling 9 million admissions. 

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 669 700. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,2 %.

In 2024, approximately 59% of the Québec workforce had a job with high exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), or about 2,700,000 people.

Cumulative total for the first ten months of 2025: Québec’s real GDP up 0.9%.

International merchandise imports were down 0.8% in October 2025 from September.

What are the sociodemographic characteristics associated with the different cultural practices of young people?

This slowdown mainly stems from the decline in temporary immigration observed throughout the province.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 664 900. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,4 %.

Exports in the first nine months of 2025 were down 3.6% from the same period in 2024.

In the third quarter of 2025, Québec’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices was up 0.2% from the previous quarter (-0.7%).

In Québec, slightly more than 1 in 6 persons living alone were in a low-income situation in 2022, or about 211,400 people.

Québec’s 10,300 community action organizations generated about $9.8 billion in revenues in 2023. Nearly two thirds (67%) of the 137,000 people employed by these organizations are women.

Au troisième trimestre de 2025, on dénombre un peu plus de 114 600 postes vacants au Québec. Par rapport au même trimestre de 2024, ce nombre est en baisse d’un peu moins de 13 300 (– 10 %). 

About 3 in 4 women (74%) and 4 in 5 men (83%) who experience acts of violence of a criminal nature or with high criminal potential from a current or former intimate partner in Québec do not report these acts to the police.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 649 400. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,1 %.

Fertility dropped to an all-time low of 1.33 children per woman in Québec in 2024. Regarding the situation in Québec’s regions, a publication released today by the Institut de la statistique du Québec discusses regional variations in fertility rates.

At two and a half years old, nearly 43% of toddlers are getting at least one hour of screen time per day on average during the week. This proportion reaches 65% on the weekend. 

Between 2006 and 2024, the number of university graduates (bachelor’s degree or above) who have a payroll job almost doubled and reached more than one million in 2024. 

The salaries and total compensation of 90,386 Québec government employees for 74 comparable jobs in the labour market are made public today.

In August 2025, Québec’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices was up 0.1% from the previous month for the second consecutive month.

Among people who received a first cancer diagnosis in 2013 or 2014, 45% were still alive in 2024.

In Québec, in 2021, the carbon footprint of Québec society overall was up 7% from 2017 to 114 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (Mt CO2 eq.), which is equivalent to 13.2 tonnes per capita.

Nearly 83% of children aged two and a half years are active every day when playing at home.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 651 300. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,3 %.

In 2024, there were 12.4 million visits to Québec museum institutions. This number was up 3% from 12.0 million in 2023, but remained 11% lower than the 2015–2019 average. 

Cumulative total for the first seven months of 2025: Québec’s real GDP up 1.0%.

A portrait of the province’s 17 administrative regions according to 7 themes: demography, the labour market, GDP, per capita disposable income, family living conditions, health, and culture. 

Between 1999 and 2024, on an annual basis, repeated psychological abuse against children in a family context decreased from 48% to 28% in Québec. 

International merchandise imports down 11.6% in August 2025.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 639 800. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,7 % (− 0,3 point de pourcentage).

At the regional level, only two regions recorded GDP growth above 10.0%: Abitibi-Témiscamingue (+12.8%) and Nord-du-Québec (+14.3%).

Toddlers are starting childcare later than they did 20 years ago, many toddlers have already experienced changes in their childcare arrangements and more infections and antibiotic use among toddlers in childcare

The decline in the second quarter was mainly attributable to the deterioration of the trade balance caused by a sharp decline in exports of goods and services. 

International merchandise imports down 8.3% in July 2025.

Au deuxième trimestre de 2025, on dénombre environ 123 800 postes vacants au Québec. Par rapport au même trimestre de 2024, ce nombre est en baisse d’un peu plus de 15 600 (– 11 %). 

There were 23,000 marriages registered in Québec in 2024, only marginally more than in the previous year (22,700).

Material productivity stood at $1,679/tonne in 2021, very close to the numbers for 2019 and 2018.

Between 2014 and 2024, the pool of people aged 15 to 64 who are available to work decreased by nearly 234,000 to just over 387,000 in 2024.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 644 500. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 6,0 %.

 In Québec, 82% of businesses reported having implemented at least one circular economy practice in 2022. 

In 2024, there were 31 billion streams on on-demand music streaming platforms in Québec.

Cumulative total for the first five months of 2025: Québec’s real GDP up 1.5%.

How can a society’s progress be measured in a way that takes into account what matters to people, such as health, education, the environment, and material conditions? 

International merchandise imports down 0.3% in June 2025.

Three years after obtaining their post-secondary degree, how have 2020 graduates integrated into the labour market?

What proportion of Québec’s population reads books, listens to podcasts, plays video games, or watches traditional television? What motivates Quebecers to go to a museum or the movies—or not? Is it true that fewer young people listen to music by Québec artists in comparison to older people?

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 637 000. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,5 %.

The population could stabilize around 9.2 million over the next few decades. Over the shorter-term, the population should decline by about 80,000 (-0.9%) by 2030, mostly because of an expected reduction in temporary immigration.

Production of goods down 1.4% ans service production up 0.1%

In 2021, in Québec, immigrants accounted for 27.3% of university graduates, while they made up 18.3% of people aged 25 to 64. 

Québec’s international merchandise imports down 2.4%.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 652 000. Le taux de chômage se fixe à 6,3 %.

Québec has 11,360 social economy enterprises spread out across all regions and many fields. These enterprises generate $53.6 billion in revenues and provide more than 248,000 payroll jobs in Québec. 

In 2023, there were more than 20,000 show performances in Québec, and attendance reached a high of 8.8 million admissions, up from 16,000 performances and 7.0 million admissions in 2004.

Growth in the first quarter was mainly due to an increase in business investment (gross fixed capital formation).

The 2025 edition  of Le Québec chiffres en main includes a section dedicated to higher education.

On dénombre environ 115 500 postes vacants au Québec. Par rapport au même trimestre de 2024, ce nombre est en baisse d’un peu moins de 27 900 (– 19 %). 

Québec’s international merchandise imports down 9.2%.

This result was due in part to a drop in the volume of foreign productions and production services, which accounted for 54% of total production volume.

In 2024, Québec movie theatres welcomed 13.5 million moviegoers, down 7% from 2023 (14.6 million) and 28% from 2019.

Le nombre d’emplois au Québec s’établit à 4 628 600 (− 17 000, ou − 0,4 % par rapport au mois précédent). Le taux de chômage se fixe à 5,8 %.

 According to preliminary data, per capita disposable income in current dollars grew 2.0% to $36,531 in Québec in 2023. 

Data  collected from multiple private and public organizations with 200 or more employees. These data cover the wages, hours of work and total compensation (which takes into account various benefits) of nearly 849,000 employees.

In 2023, Québec mothers whose youngest child was under the age of 6 earned an average of $34.17 an hour, up by about 59% from 2008.

Goods production down 1.5%; Service output decreased by 0.2%.

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Businesses are increasingly adopting eco-responsible practices

Les postes vacants au Québec au premier trimestre de 2026 (in French only)

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Québec Progress Indicators: overall favourable trends with some recent changes

After a decline, the audiovisual industry was up in Québec in 2024-2025

Résultats de l’Enquête sur la population active pour le Québec au mois de mai 2026

The proportion of young people who are not in employment, education or training has declined in Québec since the late 1990s

Growth in per capita disposable income accelerated in almost every region of Québec in 2024