Table 14.0a. Relative standard errors (%) of area of forest land by species group and age class in Canada.
Species group Age (years) Total
1-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81-100 101-120 121-140 141-160 161-180 181-200 201+ Other1
Other hardwoods 16.96 9.05 9.32 8.95 11.22 16.51 31.43 47.79 77.69 85.43 38.62 72.69 4.45
Unspecified hardwoods 7.04 9.83 15.80 44.18 23.16 65.62 80.16 - - - - 100.51 5.40
Cedar & other conifers 18.01 14.53 10.54 9.24 8.34 10.17 13.64 19.62 23.92 21.14 8.13 - 4.72
Unspecified conifers 6.20 6.89 16.10 27.67 25.46 - - - - - - 60.42 4.40
Douglas-fir 16.84 17.90 15.17 13.57 10.47 9.56 9.71 10.49 14.85 16.60 11.38 - 3.80
Hemlock 17.76 15.21 13.85 14.75 12.40 15.06 13.66 18.81 13.91 24.02 5.71 - 3.98
Maple 12.11 7.10 5.37 5.53 6.11 11.55 25.17 34.15 76.93 - 71.45 100.51 2.86
Larch 11.72 6.29 4.54 5.13 5.86 7.42 9.18 16.06 23.53 26.97 22.86 62.73 2.36
Birch 6.37 4.68 4.62 4.64 5.06 10.21 12.88 26.40 33.54 55.60 72.19 62.48 2.15
Unclassified 39.43 22.69 47.90 58.32 58.50 80.15 98.65 99.98 99.98 - - 2.60 2.58
Fir 8.59 4.46 4.01 4.75 4.36 7.24 6.61 8.08 8.47 10.15 5.53 61.28 1.81
Poplar 4.47 3.45 3.55 3.24 3.48 4.75 8.39 14.01 24.35 29.49 30.25 74.58 1.50
Pine 4.27 3.50 4.20 3.90 4.12 5.22 5.73 8.33 11.73 15.81 11.73 70.21 1.55
Spruce 4.69 2.79 2.18 1.88 1.91 1.70 1.83 2.86 6.26 9.12 5.95 32.27 0.76
Subtotal 2.02 1.49 1.37 1.28 1.32 1.44 1.61 2.40 4.12 5.39 2.85 2.59 0.52
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data< (Version 3, November 2023) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic), and the Taiga Plains and Hudson Plains ecozones located in Nunavut, are not inventoried. These non-inventoried areas total 262,189.89 thousand ha.
1 Missing or unknown age class.