Table 17.0. Total above-ground biomass (million tonnes) on forest land by forest type and age class in Canada.
Forest type 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
Treed Coniferous 189.63 919.59 1 663.68 2 498.05 2 877.05 4 073.79 3 202.67 1 733.80 629.25 346.35 3 546.82 0.00 21 680.67
Treed Mixedwood 130.71 379.45 707.09 1 055.24 978.33 615.65 292.57 119.33 29.78 13.98 19.61 0.00 4 341.73
Treed Broadleaf 120.43 341.97 756.59 1 243.95 1 119.89 426.45 165.81 61.67 9.15 7.83 8.21 0.00 4 261.95
Non-treed 1.32 2.36 7.00 16.09 15.60 18.17 3.20 0.26 0.15 0.10 0.06 95.83 160.13
Total 442.09 1 643.37 3 134.36 4 813.34 4 990.87 5 134.05 3 664.24 1 915.06 668.33 368.26 3 574.70 95.83 30 444.48
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 2, November 2022) (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.