World Egg Day is just ahead on October 10, so we thought we’d scramble together some egg data for your consumption. Let’s just say… the old records continue to be fried.
Two dozen, er, decades of new highs
In 2024, Canadian producers produced 915.0 million dozen eggs (including fertilized eggs sent to hatcheries), the highest annual figure on record going back to 1920, the year we started tracking annual data on eggs and production reached 112.1 million dozen. It was also an increase from the previous record of 877.1 million dozen in 2023, and it was the 20th consecutive annual increase going back to 2004 (554.9 million dozen).
Production first pushed above 200 million dozen in 1929 (219.9 million dozen), followed by milestones in 1943 (320.1 million dozen), 1957 (439.8 million dozen), 1999 (519.2 million dozen) and 2006 (604.3 million dozen).
Another record high in 2025?
From January to July 2025, there have been 563.1 million dozen eggs produced, compared with 531.2 million dozen over the same period in 2024, which is an indication that 2025 might be on pace for another record. We started tracking this data series on a monthly basis in January 1951, when production was 24.7 million dozen. In July 2025, monthly production (85.3 million dozen) reached a new series high for the fourth consecutive month.
So, what is the driver of this output? The workforce! In July, there were an average of 41.0 million layers hard at work, the highest monthly head count on record and sixth monthly record in a row.
The monthly head count of layers first pecked above 30 million in October 1952, and it stayed above this number in 24 other months until 1960, it passed this number only once in the 1970s, and then not again until April 2016. Historically, there has often been an increase in the average number of layers in the fall months.
Slight decline in availability, but still plenty of eggs
Our annual food availability series measures the amount of food physically present for consumption in Canada on a per-person basis.
The latest data are from 2023, when availability (-1.1%) decreased slightly to 15.1 kilograms per person despite record egg production that year, as Canadian population growth outpaced the increase in production of the egg industry.
Fun fact: the series is tracked all the way back to 1960, when a record 15.6 kilograms per person were available, which is slightly higher than in 2023 (the series is typically tracked in kilograms for most commodities).
Prices at the grocery store continue to rise
Although factors such as disease outbreaks—including avian flu—had less of an effect on prices in 2024 than in 2023, prices continued to rise at the grocery store. On an annual average basis, eggs rose in price by 3.5% in 2024, slower than the increase in 2023 (+6.7%).
A double-digit increase was on the books in 2022 (+10.8%), when the overall inflation rate for food purchased from stores (+9.8%) reached its highest level in just over 40 years.
More recently, prices for eggs were up 3.7% in August 2025 from the same month one year earlier. In July, the average nationwide price was $4.95 a dozen, according to the latest data from our monthly average prices table.
Producers received $2.21 per dozen in June, little changed over the past year.
Looking ahead
The Poultry and eggs statistics program will release August 2025 egg production data on October 31, 2025, in The Daily.
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