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Population of the federal public service by age band

From: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

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About the data

When reading the table below, the following information applies:

  • Source of information: Pay System as of of each year.
  • The federal public service consists of 2 population segments: the core public administration and separate agencies.
  • Departments and agencies in the core public administration are named in schedules I and IV of the Financial Administration Act. The Treasury Board is the employer of this segment of the federal public service.
  • Separate agencies are named in Schedule V of the act. Separate agencies conduct their own negotiations or set their own classification levels for their employees.
  • Included in this information are:
    • active employees of all employment tenures (indeterminate, term, casual and student)
    • Governor in Council appointees
    • deputy ministers
    • federal judges
  • Excluded from this information are:
    • inactive employees (i.e., employees on leave without pay)
    • ministers’ exempt staff
    • employees locally engaged outside of Canada
    • RCMP Regular Force members
    • RCMP Civilian members
    • Canadian Forces members
  • Population counts for the following separate agencies are not included because their employee information is not available in the Pay System:
    • Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    • National Capital Commission
    • Canada Investment and Savings
    • Canadian Forces Non-Public Funds
    • Security Intelligence Review Committee (before 2010)
Population of the federal public service by age band
Age Band Year
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Core public administration
<20 562 457 426 335 408 416 406 451 569 586 641 449 564 691
20-24 9,390 8,458 7,178 5,510 5,674 6,222 6,903 7,555 9,338 11,263 12,511 12,465 13,023 13,386
25-29 20,156 19,990 18,192 15,296 13,639 12,908 12,803 13,129 15,340 18,605 21,553 24,467 26,798 29,361
30-34 25,477 25,752 24,890 23,116 22,084 21,520 21,150 20,682 21,269 22,070 23,278 25,206 27,503 31,411
35-39 26,497 27,323 27,583 27,158 27,093 27,353 27,445 27,614 28,156 29,366 30,228 31,903 32,527 34,490
40-44 28,337 28,471 28,324 27,908 27,689 28,088 28,841 29,729 31,207 32,932 34,495 36,313 37,314 39,529
45-49 34,607 34,125 32,975 31,090 29,611 28,649 28,570 29,196 30,082 31,440 32,800 34,805 36,272 38,796
50-54 35,711 35,656 35,032 34,228 33,514 33,151 32,463 31,886 31,229 31,003 30,966 31,983 32,715 34,437
55-59 23,574 23,848 23,922 22,696 22,343 23,194 23,868 24,236 25,030 25,839 26,517 27,719 27,205 27,086
60-64 9,535 10,090 10,198 9,760 9,722 10,227 10,730 11,002 11,569 12,206 12,785 14,127 14,096 14,879
65+ 2,749 3,053 3,307 3,419 3,553 3,837 4,174 4,209 4,521 5,001 5,400 6,300 6,292 6,732
Unknown 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 2 2 0 0
Total 216,596 217,224 212,028 200,516 195,330 195,565 197,354 199,691 208,312 220,315 231,176 245,739 254,309 270,798
Separate agencies
<20 169 127 119 89 112 80 95 143 192 268 256 144 218 230
20-24 2,596 2,244 2,047 1,668 1,755 1,879 1,984 2,378 2,955 3,544 3,787 3,729 4,567 4,254
25-29 5,099 4,796 4,667 4,099 4,036 3,970 3,924 4,241 4,927 5,708 6,219 7,186 8,844 9,565
30-34 6,892 6,745 6,754 6,299 6,182 5,969 5,933 6,025 6,237 6,574 6,768 7,588 9,212 10,555
35-39 7,564 7,574 7,893 7,511 7,662 7,735 7,894 8,019 8,240 8,347 8,367 9,026 10,254 11,012
40-44 8,901 8,675 8,673 8,345 8,234 8,239 8,339 8,685 8,924 9,297 9,646 10,310 11,379 12,323
45-49 11,727 11,147 10,827 9,921 9,576 9,210 9,098 9,108 9,381 9,363 9,423 9,872 10,680 11,427
50-54 11,657 11,806 12,209 11,719 11,405 11,135 10,773 10,410 10,150 9,924 9,738 9,992 10,197 10,612
55-59 7,802 7,752 8,197 7,966 8,064 8,282 8,458 8,707 8,701 8,742 8,840 9,018 8,917 8,856
60-64 3,045 3,263 3,534 3,468 3,531 3,631 3,737 3,829 3,978 4,223 4,414 4,901 5,062 5,160
65+ 931 999 1,144 1,216 1,251 1,338 1,389 1,458 1,571 1,676 1,816 2,095 2,317 2,454
Unknown 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 1
Total 66,384 65,128 66,064 62,301 61,808 61,469 61,625 63,005 65,259 67,668 69,274 73,862 81,648 86,449
Federal public service
<20 731 584 545 424 520 496 501 594 761 854 897 593 782 921
20-24 11,986 10,702 9,225 7,178 7,429 8,101 8,887 9,933 12,293 14,807 16,298 16,194 17,590 17,640
25-29 25,255 24,786 22,859 19,395 17,675 16,878 16,727 17,370 20,267 24,313 27,772 31,653 35,642 38,926
30-34 32,369 32,497 31,644 29,415 28,266 27,489 27,083 26,707 27,506 28,644 30,046 32,794 36,715 41,966
35-39 34,061 34,897 35,476 34,669 34,755 35,088 35,339 35,633 36,396 37,713 38,595 40,929 42,781 45,502
40-44 37,238 37,146 36,997 36,253 35,923 36,327 37,180 38,414 40,131 42,229 44,141 46,623 48,693 51,852
45-49 46,334 45,272 43,802 41,011 39,187 37,859 37,668 38,304 39,463 40,803 42,223 44,677 46,952 50,223
50-54 47,368 47,462 47,241 45,947 44,919 44,286 43,236 42,296 41,379 40,927 40,704 41,975 42,912 45,049
55-59 31,376 31,600 32,119 30,662 30,407 31,476 32,326 32,943 33,731 34,581 35,357 36,737 36,122 35,942
60-64 12,580 13,353 13,732 13,228 13,253 13,858 14,467 14,831 15,547 16,429 17,199 19,028 19,158 20,039
65+ 3,680 4,052 4,451 4,635 4,804 5,175 5,563 5,667 6,092 6,677 7,216 8,395 8,609 9,186
Unknown 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 4 5 6 2 3 1 1
Total 282,980 282,352 278,092 262,817 257,138 257,034 258,979 262,696 273,571 287,983 300,450 319,601 335,957 357,247

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