Table 17.0b. Confidence interval (million tonnes) of total above-ground biomass 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
Non-treed ±0.68 ±1.48 ±5.15 ±10.39 ±6.86 ±8.37 ±3.01 ±0.30 ±0.30 ±0.20 ±0.12 ±5.03 ±17.00
Treed Broadleaf ±12.88 ±24.37 ±52.18 ±81.83 ±74.46 ±47.84 ±35.47 ±19.33 ±6.09 ±6.66 ±5.66 - ±140.56
Treed Mixedwood ±11.47 ±23.27 ±41.10 ±55.54 ±56.79 ±50.68 ±29.07 ±21.97 ±9.60 ±8.39 ±9.51 - ±113.22
Treed Coniferous ±15.13 ±47.03 ±83.66 ±107.68 ±111.56 ±151.35 ±125.14 ±98.16 ±63.09 ±40.15 ±234.35 - ±377.09
Total ±22.95 ±57.87 ±106.94 ±146.57 ±145.82 ±166.83 ±133.31 ±102.43 ±64.11 ±41.55 ±234.61 ±5.03 ±418.40
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 3.1, October 2025) (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.