Table 21.0b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area of land by land use in Canada.
Land Use Total
Industrial Forestry Agriculture Conservation Infrastructure Settlement Recreation National Defence Unknown Other1
±408.17 ±3 674.50 ±1 486.74 ±2 495.78 ±257.78 ±529.43 ±771.62 ±537.09 ±2 947.40 - ±5 659.12
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, unknown or other land uses.