Wellness MetricsPerceived mental health, very good or excellent
50.3%
2023/2024
CCHS two-year estimates, age 18+. Unweighted median of 13 provinces/territories; this table has no Canada total.
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Mental Health Analytics
Curated overview of perceived mental health, cycle-to-cycle change, and provincial contrast.
Figures are population-level Statistics Canada estimates. Suppressed cells are omitted, not imputed. This is not individual risk prediction.
Perceived mental health, fair or poor
16.7%
2023/2024
CCHS two-year estimates, age 18+. Unweighted median of 13 provinces/territories; this table has no Canada total.
Change from previous cycle
-4.0pp
2021/2022 → 2023/2024
Percentage-point change, not a continuous trend
Suicidal thoughts (ideation, not deaths)
12.4%
2019
Latest available cycle. Not a suicide mortality rate.
Model trend, selected indicator
Perceived mental health, very good or excellent · Alberta · Both sexes · Total, 18 years and over
Current value
52.4%
2023
Model trend
Down
estimated, next cycle
Model probability
90%
for “Down”
Confidence interval
—
on the current value
No future survey cycle is available for this series yet. This is the model's estimated direction for the next cycle, not an observed value.
How has the selected indicator changed across CCHS cycles?
Key observations
Reported distress rose between survey cycles
Among people 15 and over in Canada, fair or poor perceived mental health **rose from 6.9% in 2002 to 15.3% in 2022**. Very good or excellent ratings **fell from 67.1% to 53.1%** over the same CCHS mental-health cycles.
Place matters for where support may be needed
In the latest CCHS annual cycle, fair or poor perceived mental health ranged from 8.8% in Quebec to 19.7% in Nova Scotia. A separate 2022 CCHS mental-health cycle put the national rate at 15.3% among people 15 and over.
Younger adults report more suicidal thoughts
In Canada (excluding territories), people aged 18 to 34 reported suicidal thoughts at 17.4%, compared with 7% among people 65 and over in the latest available cycle. This is self-reported ideation, not suicide deaths.
Provincial comparison, latest available cycle