Table 5.0. Area (1000 ha) of 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 11 091.92 24 019.34 29 609.83 33 496.68 35 613.45 45 758.23 39 763.86 15 188.45 4 199.92 2 226.34 16 196.33 0.00 257 164.34
Treed Mixedwood 5 542.48 7 209.57 8 206.32 10 251.06 8 767.62 6 551.56 2 441.52 692.63 177.50 64.05 113.96 0.00 50 018.27
Treed Broadleaf 4 620.74 6 096.54 7 949.24 10 029.13 8 370.49 3 411.42 924.89 301.86 50.99 23.35 28.32 0.00 41 806.97
Non-treed 115.03 199.82 255.90 298.46 306.89 204.90 26.17 4.43 1.28 1.59 0.47 17 177.49 18 592.44
Total 21 370.16 37 525.27 46 021.30 54 075.33 53 058.45 55 926.11 43 156.44 16 187.37 4 429.69 2 315.33 16 339.08 17 177.49 367 582.02
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.