Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has launched a new Economic Impact Dashboard providing an up-to-date, data-driven snapshot of the forest products sector’s contributions to Canada’s economy.
Sourced directly from Statistics Canada, the dashboard offers insight into key national indicators including employment, gross domestic product (GDP), exports, lumber production, and rail transportation volumes. Collectively, these metrics illustrate the forest sector’s significant role as one of Canada’s largest manufacturing employers and export industries.
FPAC has also launched a new interactive map to visually represent where the nearly 200,000 Canadians directly employed by Canada’s forest sector are located. Rural and urban from coast to coast, Canada’s forest-reliant communities that are generating the products to Build Canada.
As of December 2024, the sector supported 194,040 direct jobs across the country and 48,752 cubic meters of lumber production; and as of December 2025, the sector generated $19.9B to Canada’s GDP annually, $34.6B in exports including wood, pulp and paper products, and tracks 19.5M tonnes of rail carloadings.
Designed to improve accessibility, the dashboard allows policymakers, media, industry partners, and the public to quickly access credible, authoritative data on the sector’s economic performance.
The Economic Impact Dashboard is available at:
https://www.fpac.ca/economic-impact-dashboard
About FPAC
FPAC provides a voice for Canada’s wood, pulp, and paper producers nationally and internationally in government, trade, and environmental affairs. As an industry, we contributed $19.9B in real GDP in 2025.
Canada's forest products sector is one of the country’s largest employers—providing nearly 200,000 direct jobs and operating in hundreds of communities across the country. Our members are committed to collaborating with Indigenous leaders, government bodies, and other key stakeholders to develop across-Canada action plan aimed at advancing forest health, while supporting workers, communities and our environment for the long term.
