Statistics Canada Finds Alberta Lowest at 38.1% Provincial Life Satisfaction Canada

Statistics Canada’s provincial life satisfaction canada survey showed Alberta had the lowest share of residents reporting high life satisfaction in the second quarter of 2025. Quebec led the provinces at 57.3 per cent, while Alberta was at 38.1 per cent.

The survey asked Canadians aged 15 and older to rate their life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 8, 9 or 10 counted as high life satisfaction. Nationally, 46.1 per cent of Canadians reported high life satisfaction in the second quarter of 2025, down from 48.6 per cent in the first quarter and up from 40.4 per cent in the same period in 2024.

Statistics Canada survey

The ranking separates provinces by the share of respondents who gave their life an 8, 9 or 10. New Brunswick followed Quebec at 53.4 per cent, then Newfoundland and Labrador at 51.3 per cent and Nova Scotia at 49.1 per cent.

Alberta’s 38.1 per cent placed it below Ontario at 42 per cent, Saskatchewan at 43.8 per cent, British Columbia at 44.8 per cent and Manitoba at 45.6 per cent. The gap between Quebec and Alberta was 19.2 percentage points.

Quarterly Canada data

The national figures point to a weaker quarter than the first three months of 2025, even as the share reporting high life satisfaction remained above the level recorded in the same period a year earlier. That leaves Alberta at the bottom of the provincial table and Quebec at the top in the same release.

For readers in Alberta, the practical reading is simple: the province sits furthest from the national average and furthest from Quebec’s result in the second-quarter survey. The next comparison point is whether later Statistics Canada quality-of-life data shows that gap narrowing or widening.