Engineers Canada has released its 2026 National Membership Report. This report gathers information from the provincial and territorial engineering regulators on their membership, providing a national picture of the growth and composition of the engineering profession in Canada. This year’s report presents data from the 2025 calendar year.
Overall, membership in the engineering profession continued to grow in 2025. As of December 31, 2025, there were 334,854 members across Canada’s 12 engineering regulators. This represents an increase of 1.3 per cent from the previous year. The largest increase was in British Columbia, which added 1,410 registrants. The largest percentage increase was 11.5 per cent in Northwest Territories.
The report also tracks newly licensed engineers as an indicator of the profession’s future growth. In 2025, there were 10,555 newly licensed engineers nationwide.
While women continue to be underrepresented in the engineering profession, the proportion of female-identifying engineering members increased again in 2025. Female-identifying members represented 16.3 per cent of the total national membership, up from 15.8 per cent in 2024. There were 53,679 female-identifying engineering members nationally, an increase of 1,579 from the previous year. The largest increase was in Alberta which added 467 female-identifying engineers. Nova Scotia recorded the largest increase in the proportion of female-identifying members, rising from 15.1 per cent to 19.5 per cent.
Among newly-licensed engineers, 2,103 identify as female. This represents a slight decrease in the national proportion since 2024, from 21.0 per cent in 2024 to 20.3 per cent in 2025. That decrease is not uniform across the country, with Prince Edward Island experiencing an increase of 8.8 per cent in the number of newly licensed female-identifying engineers.