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CALGARY — Alberta is the only Canadian province ranked in the top half of a new Fraser Institute comparison of living standards across the 10 provinces and 50 U.S. states.
The conservative think-tank ranked Alberta 25th among the 60 jurisdictions using 2024 GDP per person as its measure of living standards.
Seven Canadian provinces were among the bottom 10.
New Brunswick ranked 60th, followed by Prince Edward Island at 59th and Nova Scotia at 58th.
Manitoba ranked 56th, Quebec 55th, Newfoundland and Labrador 52nd and Ontario 51st.
British Columbia ranked 49th, while Saskatchewan placed 35th.
The study, titled Squandering the Canadian Century Part 2: Comparing Economic Performance in Canadian Provinces and US States, also compared incomes, private-sector employment and labour productivity.
The Fraser Institute says Canadian provinces have fallen further behind U.S. states across each of those measures.
The study found median employment income was higher in all 50 U.S. states than in each of the 10 Canadian provinces in 2024.
It also found inflation-adjusted employment income, including wages and salaries, has increased faster in most U.S. states than in Canadian provinces in recent years.
Fraser Institute fiscal studies director Jake Fuss said the comparisons show Canadian living standards and incomes have increasingly fallen behind those in the United States.
The study uses 2024 figures, the most recent year for which comparable data was available across all 60 jurisdictions.
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