Data presented here is by 'legal marital status' including persons living in common law. Widowed (including living common law) includes persons who have lost their legally-married spouse through death and have not remarried. Those who live with a common-law partner are included in this category.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2000 to 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Number of widowed people in Canada 2000-2022, by gender
In 2022, there were far more widowed women living in Canada than there were widowed men. In that year, there were about 1.59 million widowed women and about 472;170 widowed men living in Canada.
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StatCan. (November 9, 2022). Number of widowed people in Canada from 2000 to 2022, by gender (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 25, 2026, from /statistics/446133/widowed-people-in-canada-by-gender/
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