Ahead by a decade: employment in 2030

This report provides a future-focused analysis of how Canada's labour market could evolve by 2030. It highlights actionable insights into the jobs that are likely to grow or decline in importance across Canada in the next decade, and the skills that could help workers to navigate these shifts. The report also explores the implications of this forecast for specific occupations, skills, industries, geographies and people. It looks at how different workers may be impacted, and how policy could be designed to respond. The analysis is intended to help policymakers, program designers, educators, and service providers identify and respond to potential areas of risk and opportunity to better prepare current and future workers and employers for the employment and skills landscape of 2030.

The report is accompanied by Forecast of Canadian Occupational Growth (FCOG), a new tool for understanding how Canada's labour market could evolve over the next decade, shaped by potentially disruptive drivers ranging from technological change to resource scarcity and an aging population. Although released in the first half of 2020, the vast majority of the working putting together the FCOG occurred in 2018 and 2019. This forecast offers an important complement to existing labour market information. It presents a possible picture of the future that differs from the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), which largely relies on extrapolation from past trends.

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