Statistics reveals 2024 Canadian Veteran Health Survey
Nov. 07, 2025
Global Korean Post
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Yesterday, the Statistics Canada released 2024 Canadian Veteran Health Survey: Findings on the service to civilian transition as below:
Each year, thousands of members of the Canadian Armed Forces transition from military to post-service life. Not all Veterans share the same experience with transitioning to civilian life and there are several factors associated with an easier transition. New results from the 2024 Canadian Veteran Health Survey (CVHS), which provides information on the transition from military to civilian life, general health and well-being, chronic health conditions and labour force participation, are now available. According to the CVHS, in 2024, 84.8% of Veterans in Canada were men and 15.2% were women.
In 2024, 60.9% of Veterans described their transition to civilian life as easy, with women (61.8%) being slightly more likely than men (60.1%) to report this being the case. By contrast, 17.7% of Veterans described the transition as difficult and 21.3% described it as neither difficult nor easy.
With more time that passed since their release from service, Veterans were more likely to report having an easier transition to civilian life. Veterans who were released more than 20 years ago were more likely to report their transition to civilian life being easy (66.4%), compared with those who were released 5 years ago or less (46.1%).
Recently released women in particular were less likely to report having an easy transition. Just over one in three women (34.2%) who were released in the past five years reported their transition to civilian life being easy. This figure is almost 14 percentage points lower than that of men (47.9%).
Service history impacts the ease of transition to civilian life for Veterans. Those with shorter periods of service were more likely to describe their transition as easy. For example, close to 7 in 10 Veterans (69.5%) who served for a period of 5 years or less described their transition as easy, compared with 38.1% of those who served for 16 to 20 years.
In addition to the length of service, deployment experience also plays a role in shaping Veterans’ transition to civilian life. Indeed, 7 in 10 Veterans (69.9%) who had no deployment experience described their transition to civilian life as easy, compared with 1 in 2 Veterans (50.0%) who had deployment experience.
In 2024, 37.6% of Veterans reported having served in the Reserve Force only, while 50.0% served in the Regular Force only and 12.4% had experience in both. There was a notable difference by gender: 45.6% of women Veterans served in the Reserve Force only, compared with 36.1% of men. The adjustment to civilian life also varied by type of service: 57.4% of Veterans who served in the Regular Force only described their transition to civilian life as easy, compared with 70.7% of Veterans who had Reserve Force service only.
(Source: Statistics Canada)
