A snapshot of life in Newfoundland and Labrador has been released. Vital Signs, compiled by Memorial University’s Harris Centre, is a collection of statistics and data from across the province that provides insight into how we’re living.
View the full report at this link.
If Newfoundland and Labrador were a village of 100, 51 would be women, and 49 would be men. Nine of those would be Indigenous, while two would be immigrants and two would be visible minorities.
32 would be between the ages of 45 and 64, 30 would be between 20 and 44 and 19 would be under the age of 20. Nineteen would be over the age of 65.
The average family income in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2017 was 81,500, an 18 per cent increase from 2007.
That’s more than PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
Among minimum wage earners in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2018, seven per cent were female, and six per cent were male, while 28 per cent were between the ages of 15 and 24. The biggest portion—17 per cent—have not graduated high school.
More Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are choosing to work past the age of 65, however according to Senior’s Advocate Dr. Suzanne Brake, employers have yet to acknowledge older workers as a potential solution to the province’s dwindling labour force.
Report says NL has Most Physicians Per Capita, NLMA Disputes Numbers
Despite recent reports indicating trouble in recruiting family doctors in some areas of the province, Vital Signs says Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest proportion of physicians per 100,000 population in the country.
This province also has the highest proportion of physicians who plan to increase their weekly work hours in the next two years—but it also has the highest proportion of physicians who plan to relocate to another province.
There are 138 family physicians per 100,000 people in Newfoundland and Labrador compared to 120 in Canada as a whole. The total number of physicians is 255 in Newfoundland and Labrador compared to 234 nationally.
The numbers were provided by CIHI, and the NLMA is disputing those numbers.
The average age of physicians in Newfoundland and Labrador is 49.
