Environment
Key indicators
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8.6 million metric tonnes
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3.1 million metric tonnes
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$15.3 billion
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$20.2 billion
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-5.2%
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3.75 gigajoules per $1,000
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0.26 tonnes per $1,000
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3.99 terajoules per million dollars of real GDP-1.9%
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0.28 kilotonnes per million dollars of real GDP-2.6%
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61.4 gigajoules-5.2%
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2.8 tonnes-5.0%
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$33.3 billion7.8%
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Volume of untreated wastewater discharged in Canada (including combined sewer overflows) - Canada
(2023)215 million cubic metres -
15.7 cubic metres per thousand dollars of real GDP
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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202616741796Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-06-16
- Table: 36-10-0655-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Expansion of the Infrastructure Economic Accounts focusing on the environmental aspect to aid in understanding the relationship between investment in infrastructure and the environment. Main indicators include greenhouse gas emissions as a result of production of infrastructure assets, greenhouse gas emissions per value-added, and clean input proportion.Release date: 2026-06-12
- Table: 36-10-0645-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Annual output, gross domestic product, and compensation of employees estimates of the environmental and clean technology products sector, by industry, for Canada, provinces and territories.Release date: 2026-05-29
- 4. Employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristicTable: 36-10-0691-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by type of worker and by demographic characteristic. This includes full-time employment and part time employment, and it includes gender, age, level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by environmental and clean technology products group. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0692-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic. This includes gender, age, level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by industry. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0693-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector, by gender, age, and demographic characteristic. This includes level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by environmental and clean technology products group. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0694-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment per occupation (National Occupation Classification) in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic. This includes level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- 8. Demographic characteristics of employees in the environmental and clean technology products sectorData Visualization: 71-607-X2025005Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical statistics on employment in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sectors by industry, occupation, and environmental and clean technology products. With its interactive charts, it allows the user to compare and analyze statistics on employment by different demographic characteristics including the education level, age, gender, immigrant status and Indigenous identity.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 33-10-1156-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Businesses or organizations that are concerned about the impact of natural disasters and extreme weather events or of climate change on the future of its activities, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2026.Release date: 2026-05-27
- 10. Types of environmental insurance the business or organization is insured for, second quarter of 2026Table: 33-10-1157-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Types of environmental insurance the business or organization is insured for, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2026.Release date: 2026-05-27
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Data (405)
Data (405) (340 to 350 of 405 results)
- 341. Value of timber stocks (methods I and II) ArchivedTable: 38-10-0105-01Frequency: AnnualDescription: This table contains 20 series, with data for years 1961 - 2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2015-03-26. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (10 items: Canada; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Value (2 items: Present value calculation; timber stocks; method I; Present value calculation; timber stocks; method II ...).Release date: 2017-02-09
- 342. Direct plus indirect energy intensity, by industry ArchivedTable: 38-10-0108-01Frequency: AnnualDescription: Intensity of energy use is measured in gigajoules per thousand dollars of production. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2017-02-09
- 343. Energy use, by sector ArchivedTable: 38-10-0109-01Frequency: AnnualDescription: Energy use by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2017-02-09
- 344. Direct plus indirect greenhouse gas emissions intensity ArchivedTable: 38-10-0110-01Frequency: AnnualDescription: Intensity of greenhouse gas emissions is measured in tonnes per thousand dollars of production. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2017-02-09
- 345. Greenhouse gas emissions, by sector ArchivedTable: 38-10-0111-01Frequency: AnnualDescription: Greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents), by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2017-02-09
- 346. Water use in Canada ArchivedTable: 38-10-0118-01Frequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: Water use by industries and households (cubic metres x 1,000).Release date: 2017-02-09
- Public use microdata: 16M0001XDescription: The file provides data for Canada, the provinces and census metropolitan areas and includes information on a wide range of topics, including water quality concerns; consumption and conservation of water; energy use and home heating and cooling; pesticide and fertilizer use on lawns and gardens; recycling, composting and waste disposal practices. It also provides information on the socio-demographic, income and labour force characteristics of the population.Release date: 2016-12-16
- Table: 38-10-0276-01Frequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: This table shows whether Canadian households treated their water prior to consumption and the method(s) and reason(s) if they did. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.Release date: 2016-02-18
- Table: 27-10-0289-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Survey of advanced technology, adoption of advanced green technologies, by type of advanced technologies, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.Release date: 2016-01-07
- 350. Agriculture in Canada ArchivedTable: 16-201-X201400014117Description:
The 2014 article “Agriculture in Canada” gathers together a variety of statistics describing agriculture from the perspective of ecosystem goods and services.
The article addresses the ecological infrastructure supporting agricultural activity (Section 2), ecosystem goods and services from agriculture (Section 3), the main beneficiaries of these goods and services (Section 4) and the environmental impacts and management activities associated with agriculture (Section 5). Section 6 provides an example to illustrate how agricultural information can be integrated into a system of environmental accounts that follow international guidelines being developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Section 7 concludes with a short listing of areas requiring further research.
Release date: 2014-11-13
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- 131. Radon awareness in Canada ArchivedStats in brief: 16-508-X2016002Description:
This fact sheet looks at Canadian households' awareness of radon.
Release date: 2016-12-16 - Articles and reports: 13-604-M2016082Description:
This paper examines the feasibility of developing a Natural Resources Satellite Account (NRSA) consistent with the Canadian System of National Accounts. The NRSA is an expandable framework that can be used to present Statistics Canada’s existing data holdings for the natural resource sector as well provide increased detail for data users. This feasibility study starts by discussing satellite accounts within the framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA).The definition of natural resources is addressed. Experimental results are then provided for the years 2009 to 2012, based on the proposed definition. Further developments and potential extensions are discussed in a concluding section.
Release date: 2016-10-21 - Stats in brief: 85-002-X201600114638Description: Using data from the Survey of Emergency Preparedness and Resilience (SEPR) in Canada, these fact sheets present the risk awareness, emergency preparedness and previous experience with emergencies and disasters of Canadians aged 15 and over living in 73 communities across the provinces. The SEPR was developed in partnership with both Defence Research and Development Canada's Centre for Security Science and Public Safety Canada, and was conducted for the first time in 2014. The information presented contributes to the understanding of community resilience in Canada by examining how Canadians living in various communities prepare for and respond to emergencies or disasters.Release date: 2016-10-13
- Articles and reports: 16-002-X201600214629Description: This study examines selected energy-related production, distribution, accidents and GHG emissions data over a ten year period (2005 to 2014).Release date: 2016-07-12
- 135. Envirostats: Waste in Canada 2002 to 2013 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201614512201Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2016-05-24
- Articles and reports: 16-002-X201600114570Description: This study uses the Households and the Environment Survey along with the Waste Management Industry Survey, to examine the disposal and diversion activities of Canadian households from 2002 to 2013, focusing on electronic waste.Release date: 2016-05-24
- Articles and reports: 85-002-X201600114469Description: Using data from the Survey of Emergency Preparedness and Resilience (SEPR) in Canada, this report investigates the experiences of Canadians aged 15 and over from across the 10 provinces with emergencies and disasters, as well as the socio-demographic characteristics of those affected. The SEPR was developed in partnership with Defence Research and Development Canada's Centre for Security Science and Public Safety Canada and was conducted for the first time in 2014. The information collected through the SEPR contributes to the understanding of community resilience in Canada by examining how Canadians respond to emergencies or disasters.Release date: 2016-04-13
- 138. The changing landscape of Canadian metropolitan areas ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-201-X201600014361Geography: Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partDescription: The article "The changing landscape of Canadian metropolitan areas" provides an analysis of land cover and land use change in Canada's largest cities. It focuses on the change in built-up area, arable land and natural and semi-natural land in and around CMAs from 1971 to 2011. The report includes CMA-specific geographical profiles that include tables, charts and maps as well as links to a wealth of other relevant information.
The June 2016 update includes the addition of spatial data files (ArcGIS®, file extension: .shp) for each CMA that can be downloaded from the HTML version of the publication.
Release date: 2016-03-22 - 139. Toronto. Your city. Your facts. Take a look! ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2016003Geography: Census metropolitan areaDescription:
The infographic, entitled TORONTO. Your city. Your facts. Take a look!, is designed to inform readers about Statistics Canada survey collection in the Toronto and surrounding areas by presenting a selection of household survey data for the Census Metropolitan Area of Toronto. The purpose of this infographic is to encourage residents in the Toronto and surrounding areas to participate in Statistics Canada's surveys when they are selected.
Release date: 2016-03-16 - 140. Source water quality, 2013 ArchivedStats in brief: 16-508-X2015009Description:
This fact sheet looks at the environmental quality of surface water sources prior to treatment using data from the 2013 Survey of Drinking Water Plants.
Release date: 2015-12-18
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 7531Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 8012Description: These data sets are developed for the purpose of longitudinal analysis of the Census of Agriculture for both Soil Landscapes of Canada and Drainage Area (Watershed) spatial frameworks.
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