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Table 9.0. Area (1000 ha) of forest land by IUCN¹ category and age class in Canada.

IUCN category

Age (years)

Total

1-20

21-40

41-60

61-80

81-100

101-120

121-140

141-160

161-180

181-200

201+

Other²

20 581.00

35 149.65

42 102.57

48 689.90

48 191.38

50 707.51

38 481.60

14 843.91

3 776.21

1 936.31

12 885.88

15 800.51

333 146.41

2.57

58.55

61.27

67.69

75.50

9.22

50.30

3.42

5.46

4.02

0.41

338.38

396.10

812.01

1 056.16

1 531.82

1 008.37

1 091.81

1 129.93

188.88

140.88

71.58

840.50

370.00

8 638.04

362.97

1 702.75

2 627.42

3 262.16

3 403.93

3 528.79

3 053.39

1 211.07

531.71

334.50

2 581.63

461.42

23 061.74

III

15.64

14.70

21.85

18.75

27.03

26.57

23.16

0.08

31.80

0.06

179.65

31.58

95.08

217.24

287.05

357.35

50.23

153.43

20.59

6.72

0.16

52.91

73.81

1 346.15

0.16

2.11

0.60

3.34

2.36

8.56

21.23

8.20

53.14

49.73

25.11

174.35

1.11

0.46

0.13

333.46

OTHER

50.40

235.38

310.46

238.00

166.94

609.08

331.13

4.57

0.26

20.74

1 966.96

Total

21 461.65

38 076.32

46 452.22

54 145.69

53 255.60

56 200.89

43 226.40

16 272.90

4 461.06

2 342.81

16 396.74

16 727.07

369 019.35

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.

¹IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature (http://www.iucn.org). Data obtained from the Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD) (https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/national-wildlife-areas/protected-conserved-areas-database.html).

²Missing or unknown age class.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) category
IUCN Category	Description
NA	Not protected
Ia	Protected area managed mainly for science
Ib	Protected area managed mainly for wilderness protection
II	Protected area managed mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation
III	Protected area managed mainly for conservation of specific natural features
IV	Protected area managed mainly for conservation through management intervention
V	Protected area managed mainly for landscape/seascape protection and recreation
VI	Protected area managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural resources
Other	Protected with missing or unknown category