About half of Canadians reported a high level of life satisfaction

Released: Friday, July 11, 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, just under half (48.6%) of all Canadians 15 years of age and older surveyed reported a high level of life satisfaction. That represented a 2.6 percentage point increase from the previous quarter, and was unchanged from the same period in 2024. Life satisfaction has been decreasing in recent years. The share of Canadians who reported high life satisfaction declined from 51.7% in early-2022 to 48.6% in early 2025.

In the first quarter of 2025, a higher proportion of women reported a high level of life satisfaction compared to men, 49.9% to 47.2%. Among provinces, Quebec had the highest proportion of respondents, 61.6%, who reported high life satisfaction. New Brunswick had the second highest proportion at 52.7%. Meanwhile, 43.5% of Albertans reported high life satisfaction, the lowest among Canadian provinces.

Life satisfaction is measured on a scale from 0 to 10. Respondents were asked, “Using a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 means ‘Very dissatisfied’ and 10 means ‘Very satisfied,’ how do you feel about your life as a whole right now?” Respondents who did not answer this question were excluded from the dataset. As part of our analysis, high life satisfaction corresponds to a score of 8,9 or 10.

Data for the above chart comes from Statistics Canada Table 13-10-0843-01  Life satisfaction by gender and province.

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