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Business Openings and Closures in Canada
Businesses with employees opening and closing each month, seasonally adjusted
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Statistics Canada, table 33-10-0270-01, experimental estimates, seasonally adjusted (Statistics Canada Open Licence). Businesses with at least one employee; an opening is a business with employees this month that had none last month, including reopenings, and a closure the reverse, including temporary ones. Not comparable with U.S. establishment births and deaths, which are annual, per location and permanent.
Statistics Canada's monthly count of employer businesses opening and closing. Closures spiked in spring 2020 as lockdowns began and openings spiked as the economy reopened; since then the two lines show whether the business population is growing.
What this chart reads
- Canada Business Openings (Monthly)as “Openings”latest 2026-06-01
- Canada Business Closures (Monthly)as “Closures”latest 2026-06-01
Sources
Canada Business Openings (Monthly). Source: Statistics Canada, table 33-10-0270-01 (vector v1203704157), "Experimental estimates for business openings and closures for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted; Canada; Business sector industries [T004]; Opening businesses". Palanor reads it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day. Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Canada Business Closures (Monthly). Source: Statistics Canada, table 33-10-0270-01 (vector v1203704159), "Experimental estimates for business openings and closures for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted; Canada; Business sector industries [T004]; Closing businesses". Palanor reads it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day. Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
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