Province profile
British Columbia
Canada · GDP 2024
#4 of 13 Canadian provinces by GDPbottom-quartile growth
EA Place Score
——methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$313.3B
Statistics Canada · 2024
GDP growth (YoY)
+3.5%
Statistics Canada · 2024
Jobs tracked
2,946,200
StatCan · 2025
Employers
213,483
StatCan · 2022
Avg. wage
$48.6k
StatCan · 2025
Population
5,697,536
StatCan · 2025
Public companies headquartered here
SEC EDGAR · FMPCompanySectorRevenueEA
1Lululemon Athletica Inc.Consumer Cyclical$11.1B77B+2Finning International Inc.Industrials$7.6B67B3Premium Brands Holdings CorporationConsumer Defensive$5.3B62C4Canfor CorporationBasic Materials$3.8B53D5Aritzia Inc.Consumer Cyclical$2.7B77B+6Capstone Copper Corp.Basic Materials$2.4B73B7ADENTRA Inc.Industrials$2.3B61C8Doman Building Materials Group Ltd.Industrials$2.2B60C9Interfor CorporationBasic Materials$2.0B50D10OceanaGold CorporationBasic Materials$1.9B82B+11Mercer International Inc.Basic Materials$1.9B55C12Lundin Gold Inc.Basic Materials$1.8B84B+13Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.Financial Services$1.6B48D14China Gold International Resources Corp. Ltd.Basic Materials$1.3B80B+15Taiga Building Products Ltd.Industrials$1.2B59C16WELL Health Technologies Corp.Healthcare$1.0B71B17Starz Entertainment Corp.Communication Services$963.4M54D18Rogers Sugar Inc.Consumer Defensive$938.5M70B19International Petroleum CorporationEnergy$772.1M57C20Western Forest Products Inc.Basic Materials$705.7M51D21Artemis Gold Inc.Basic Materials$653.2M——22SouthGobi Resources Ltd.Energy$609.3M43D23K92 Mining Inc.Basic Materials$605.7M84B+24Meren Energy Inc.Energy$569.7M——25Asante Gold CorporationBasic Materials$535.7M41DHQ-based placement with total (global) headcount — local employment attribution needs firmographic data; the industry mix at right is measured county data (CBP).
Industry mix · employment
No sector-employment detail published for this place. CBP/StatCan
GDP trend
2020–2024 · nominal
$229.2B2020
$284.8B2021
$307.5B2022
$307.1B2023
$313.3B2024
Filing activity
SEC · cross-listed451 filings from 98 companies here in the last 90 days.
Wage trend
StatCan · 2021–2025$48.6k
avg. annual pay · +4% since 2021
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What is the GDP of British Columbia?
British Columbia's economy produced $313.3B in 2024, growing 3.5% year over year — slower than 77% of Canadian provinces.
Native: 429.1B CAD · converted at the 2024 average rate.
GDP: Statistics Canada (2024), USD-normalized · Jobs/employers/wages & industry mix: StatCan (2025) · Population & migration: StatCan · Companies: SEC EDGAR + FMP, by HQ.