Ageing inhabitants, pandemic swelled ranks of health-care employees by 204,000, census says
An growing older inhabitants and the stress of managing the pandemic noticed the variety of health-care employees in Canada swell by 204,000 between 2016 and 2021, in line with newly launched census numbers.
That is a 16.8 per cent enhance to the workforce over 5 years.
Even so, the variety of job vacancies for non-management-related health-care occupations stood at a report excessive in 2022, Statistics Canada mentioned.
The census mentioned governments are struggling to fill health-care positions as a result of almost half (45.6 per cent) of non-management jobs require a bachelor’s diploma or increased, and one other 22.8 per