Canada Healthcare Statistics Databook Q2 2025: A Comprehensive Analysis of Patients, Workforce, Facilities, and Spending
Canada Healthcare Statistics Databook Q2 2025, a robust and data-driven resource designed to provide stakeholders with an in-depth understanding of the Canadian healthcare sector. The report is one of the most comprehensive statistical analyses of the country’s healthcare system to date, featuring over 300 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that span patient demographics, healthcare facilities, workforce dynamics, pharmacy distribution, and public and private spending.
By capturing granular details across the healthcare ecosystem, the databook provides a foundation for policy makers, healthcare administrators, investors, and researchers to understand the evolving needs of Canada’s healthcare system. It aims to serve as a critical decision-support tool for resource allocation, infrastructure planning, workforce management, and strategic healthcare investments.
A Holistic View of Canada’s Healthcare Ecosystem
The Canadian healthcare system, built upon a publicly funded framework, faces the challenges of increasing demand, demographic shifts, and growing expenditure. This new databook reflects those realities by offering a data-centric overview that covers the entire value chain—from patient utilization trends and workforce availability to financial flows in both public and private healthcare.
The report highlights five main dimensions of the sector:
- Patient Statistics
- Medical Staff and Workforce Distribution
- Healthcare Facilities
- Pharmacies and Distribution
- Population Demographics and Spending Trends
Together, these modules paint a comprehensive picture of how healthcare resources are deployed across the country and how well the system is positioned to meet current and future needs.
Patient Statistics: Understanding Utilization Patterns
One of the most pressing aspects of healthcare planning is patient demand, and the databook devotes significant attention to this area. With over 80 KPIs, it offers a nuanced analysis of patient flows across different hospital types, diseases, and admission categories.
- By admission type: The report breaks down patients into in-patient and out-patient categories, providing insight into the pressure on hospital beds and outpatient services.
- By hospital ownership: The analysis distinguishes between public and private hospital utilization, a crucial factor in assessing accessibility and equity in healthcare delivery.
- By disease prevalence: Patient statistics are also categorized by disease, with detailed segmentation by gender. This enables tracking of gender-specific health burdens such as cardiovascular disease prevalence among men or breast cancer incidence among women.
By presenting such granular data, the databook highlights which areas of healthcare are most resource-intensive and where additional investment may be necessary.
Medical Staff: Mapping Canada’s Healthcare Workforce
The strength of any healthcare system lies in its workforce, and the databook provides one of the most detailed breakdowns available, with over 100 KPIs dedicated to healthcare professionals.
Physicians
- Distribution of physicians per 100,000 people.
- Categorization by qualification (general practitioners, specialists, others).
- Breakdown of specialists by field, including cardiology, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, psychiatry, radiology, and more.
- Insights into consultation types—whether in-person or remote—highlight the rise of telemedicine in Canada.
- Workforce demographics: gender, age, geographic distribution, and wage indices.
Nurses
The databook captures the number of nurses per 100,000 people and further analyzes their distribution by qualification, age, gender, and work setting, offering insight into shortages or surpluses across provinces.
Allied Healthcare Professionals (AHPs)
With demand for physiotherapists, dietitians, paramedics, and occupational therapists steadily rising, the databook reports on their availability and geographic spread, as well as per-capita distribution.
Pharmacists and Technical Staff
The report also measures the number of pharmacists per 100,000 population, categorized by practice setting—clinical, retail, or hospital. Technical and administrative staff data provide a fuller picture of the support infrastructure behind frontline care.
This breadth of workforce data enables policymakers and healthcare planners to forecast shortages, redistribute resources, and prioritize training in specific specialties.
Healthcare Facilities: Infrastructure at the Core
Infrastructure is another pillar of the healthcare system. The databook includes 65 KPIs covering hospitals, diagnostic centers, and rehabilitation facilities.
- Hospitals: The report details the number and types of hospitals by ownership, specialty, location, and bed count. It also provides a population-adjusted indicator of hospital availability per 10,000 people.
- Diagnostic centers: With diagnostics forming the backbone of preventive medicine and early intervention, the databook breaks down centers by ownership, service offerings, and location.
- Rehabilitation centers: Essential for long-term care and recovery, these centers are also analyzed by ownership type, location, and operating models.
This infrastructure analysis helps identify areas where healthcare access may be limited, such as rural or underserved regions.
Pharmacies: Access and Distribution
Pharmacies are a key access point for medications and basic healthcare advice. The databook dedicates over 30 KPIs to understanding the size, reach, and economics of the pharmacy sector.
- By location: Distribution across urban and rural areas highlights accessibility issues.
- By city tier: Pharmacies are categorized by city size (Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3), reflecting population density and demand.
- By ownership: Differentiation between chain-owned, independent, and hospital-based pharmacies.
- By sales: Includes annual prescription revenues, daily doses per 1,000 population, and sales patterns by distribution channel.
The report also addresses end-user demographics, revealing which groups drive pharmacy demand, and provides sales metrics to evaluate market growth opportunities.
Healthcare Spending: Public and Private Dynamics
Spending patterns form a critical lens through which healthcare systems can be evaluated. The databook presents 32 KPIs analyzing expenditure across multiple dimensions:
- By source: Differentiating between government spending, private insurance, out-of-pocket payments, and credit financing.
- By service category: Including hospital care, physician and clinical services, prescription drugs, and home care.
- By demographics: Spending patterns broken down by age and gender groups to highlight which populations generate the highest costs.
This section allows for a clearer understanding of how Canada balances its publicly funded healthcare model with private contributions, and how those financial patterns are shifting over time.
Population Trends and Demographics
Finally, the databook incorporates 12 KPIs that analyze the broader demographic trends shaping healthcare demand.
- Population distribution by age: Identifies the growing burden of an aging population and the associated rise in chronic conditions.
- Life expectancy and mortality rates: Indicators of overall health system performance.
- Macroeconomic fundamentals: The report correlates demographic shifts with healthcare-related GDP metrics, offering context for long-term sustainability.
By connecting demographic realities with healthcare utilization, the databook underscores the need for forward-looking planning as Canada’s population ages and healthcare demand grows.
Strategic Relevance of the Report
The Canada Healthcare Statistics Databook Q2 2025 goes beyond raw data. It aims to provide strategic insights that can guide multiple stakeholders:
- Policy makers can use the information to design equitable healthcare access strategies.
- Healthcare providers gain visibility into patient demand and workforce availability.
- Investors and business leaders receive market intelligence to identify growth opportunities in pharmaceuticals, facilities, and digital health.
- Researchers and academics benefit from a reliable statistical baseline for further study.
By offering both breadth and depth, the report establishes itself as a cornerstone reference for understanding the current and future state of healthcare in Canada.
