Key Findings from Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada: Summary and Analysis
This summary is based on Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2024/2025 and previous editions from 1992 to 2023. Aimed at a wide audience of child care data and information users from policy makers to parents, its purpose is to contribute to understanding the state of Canadian early learning and child care at the end of 2025.
ECEC in Canada 2024/2025 is the Childcare Resource and Research Unit’s 15th Canada-wide report on early childhood education and care. Detailed sections on each province and territory include key statistics and outline the many recent policy and program changes. It describes federal and Indigenous early childhood programs, and includes 29 comparative tables providing Canada-wide and longitudinal perspectives. For a detailed overview of Canadian child care policy and provision though 2019, see “The State of Canadian Early Childhood Education and Care in 2022” section of Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2021.
All ECEC in Canada publications are available free of charge for download on the CRRU website.
Also available in French.