Table 17.0a. Relative standard errors (%) 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 26.42 31.98 37.41 32.84 22.36 23.41 47.82 58.07 99.86 99.59 100.00 2.76 5.50
Treed Broadleaf 5.43 3.61 3.48 3.34 3.38 5.54 10.68 15.62 33.89 34.20 35.27 - 1.67
Treed Mixedwood 4.46 3.12 2.93 2.71 2.96 4.16 5.04 9.19 16.40 30.54 23.69 - 1.33
Treed Coniferous 4.00 2.57 2.58 2.21 1.97 1.88 1.98 2.87 5.05 5.85 3.35 - 0.88
Total 2.62 1.78 1.74 1.56 1.48 1.64 1.84 2.71 4.83 5.66 3.32 2.76 0.70
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.