Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Ecosystem Accounts

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Ecosystem accounts are based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework, which was adopted as an international statistical standard by the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2021. This framework complements, and builds on, the accounting for environmental assets described in the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF), which was adopted as an international standard in 2012.
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  • 11. Linear features, landscape fragmentation and human landscape modification by ecoprovince and ecozone
    Table: 38-10-0196-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Ecosystem integrity measures including linear feature density, natural and semi-natural (NSN) patch count, average NSN patch size, average distance to NSN patches and human landscape modification index scores (0 to 100) at the ecoprovince and ecozone levels.
    Release date: 2026-03-06
  • 12. Census of Environment: Sea ice extent 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202603741271
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-02-06
  • 13. Sea ice extent account by marine bioregion
    Table: 38-10-0192-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Monthly average sea ice extent by marine bioregion.
    Release date: 2026-02-06
  • 14. Ecosystem spotlight—oceans
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X202600100001
    Description: This article presents data on the extent and condition of Canada’s ocean and coastal ecosystems, as well as the ecosystem services—also known as “nature’s contributions to people”—they provide. Building on earlier pilot accounts, this article offers new physical and monetary estimates of ocean ecosystem services. It also marks the release of experimental monetary valuations of selected ocean ecosystem services, such as commercially harvested wild fish and seafood, nature-based tourism, and blue carbon sequestration.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 15. How oceans benefit Canadians
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026002
    Description: This infographic explores ocean and coastal ecosystems from a natural capital accounting perspective. It presents the extent of ocean and coastal areas, examines ocean condition through warming trends, and highlights ecosystem services such as fish and seafood harvests and the experimental monetary values of three selected ocean and coastal ecosystem services: commercial fishing, carbon sequestration, and nature-based tourism.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 16. Protected and conserved ocean and coastal ecosystem extent account
    Table: 38-10-0157-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Protected and conserved area of Canadian ocean water layers and selected coastal and ocean floor ecosystems, by marine bioregion, conservation and protection category and management category.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 17. Conservation and protection category of ocean and coastal ecosystems
    Table: 38-10-0157-02
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Protected and conserved area of Canadian ocean water layers and coastal and ocean floor ecosystems, by marine bioregion and conservation and protection category.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 18. Protected and conserved ocean and coastal ecosystems by management category
    Table: 38-10-0157-03
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Protected and conserved area of Canadian ocean water layers and coastal and ocean floor ecosystems, by marine bioregion and management category.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 19. Ocean and coastal ecosystem services: Physical measures by marine bioregion
    Table: 38-10-0189-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Physical measures of selected ecosystem services provided by ocean and coastal ecosystems, by marine bioregion. Includes seafisheries landings, nature-based tourism, carbon sequestered, non-use values, and potential daily users.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 20. Ocean and coastal ecosystem services: Experimental monetary measures, Canada and ocean regions
    Table: 38-10-0190-01
    Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Experimental monetary values of selected ecosystem services provided by ocean and coastal ecosystems, for Canada and ocean regions (Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific), current and inflation-adjusted dollars, annual. Includes seafisheries landings, nature-based tourism, and carbon sequestered.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
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  • 21. Selected population characteristics, Canada, ecozones, ecoprovinces and ecoregions
    Table: 38-10-0047-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 5 years
    Description: Demographic and housing indicators by ecological area, every 5 years starting 1971. Includes total population, density of occupied private dwellings, urban/rural distribution, measured in numbers and percentages.
    Release date: 2025-11-17
  • 22. Urban greenness and normalized difference vegetation index by 2021 population centre
    Table: 38-10-0158-01
    Geography: Population centre, Population centre part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Greenness measures based on normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) including percentage of land area classed as green and average NDVI, by population centre and by population centre size category, for population centres in Canada and by province, annual.
    Release date: 2025-11-17
  • 23. Vegetation cover in large urban areas
    Table: 38-10-0187-01
    Geography: Dissemination area
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Vegetative cover of 30 large cities in Canada in percentage and number of hectares, by province, contiguously settled area and dissemination area, from 2019 to 2024. Annual data.
    Release date: 2025-07-14
  • 24. Agroecosystem condition account
    Table: 38-10-0164-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Condition variables for agroecosystems by ecoprovince, ecoregion and ecodistrict for every 5th year between 1986 and 2021. The variables included measure soil erosion, days of soil cover, pesticide use, grazing density, risk of salinization, and phosphorus and carbon levels in soil.
    Release date: 2025-06-17
  • 25. Ocean condition account by fishing unit
    Table: 38-10-0182-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Variables related to the condition of the ocean by fishing unit.
    Release date: 2025-06-17
  • 26. Ocean condition account by marine bioregion
    Table: 38-10-0183-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Variables related to the condition of the ocean by marine bioregion.
    Release date: 2025-06-17
  • 27. Statistical Ecosystem Register grid system reference files: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025005
    Description: This product contains reference files that define the nested spatial grid system used by the Census of Environment's Statistical Ecosystem Register. The reference grids are available as 11 GeoTIFF files, one for each resolution, as well as a well-known text representation of the projected coordinate reference system (.prj file). The GeoTIFF files contain only placeholder values of 1 (stored as a compressed unsigned 1-bit integer, to minimize the size of the files). These files can be used as templates for integrating data from multiple sources into a single gridded spatial reference system, thus enabling a common approach for related spatial data products.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 28. Ecosystem services, biomass provisioning services by ecosystem type and type of product
    Table: 38-10-0171-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Products commercially harvested from ecosystems including forests, coastal and marine, agricultural, and other natural and semi-natural land and freshwater ecosystems, annually starting with 2002.
    Release date: 2025-05-13
  • 29. Land Cover Register: Geospatial files
    Table: 16-510-X2025002
    Description: This product contains a raster dataset that maps Canada’s terrestrial and freshwater extent using an 11-class classification system. It represents land cover circa 2020 and has a 30-metre spatial resolution. The main purpose of the land cover register is to identify land cover and land use assets to support ecosystem accounting. It was created through the integration of multiple land cover and land use datasets.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 30. Land cover by class, Canada, ecoprovince and ecozone
    Table: 38-10-0177-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover areas by class for the year 2020 at the ecoprovince and ecozone levels. Classes include built-up and artificial surface, cropland, inland water body, treed, treed area disturbance, grassland and shrubland, wetland (non-treed), sparsely vegetated land, barren land, and permanent snow and ice.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
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  • 1. Census of Environment: Sea ice extent 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202603741271
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-02-06
  • 2. Ecosystem spotlight—oceans
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X202600100001
    Description: This article presents data on the extent and condition of Canada’s ocean and coastal ecosystems, as well as the ecosystem services—also known as “nature’s contributions to people”—they provide. Building on earlier pilot accounts, this article offers new physical and monetary estimates of ocean ecosystem services. It also marks the release of experimental monetary valuations of selected ocean ecosystem services, such as commercially harvested wild fish and seafood, nature-based tourism, and blue carbon sequestration.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 3. How oceans benefit Canadians
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026002
    Description: This infographic explores ocean and coastal ecosystems from a natural capital accounting perspective. It presents the extent of ocean and coastal areas, examines ocean condition through warming trends, and highlights ecosystem services such as fish and seafood harvests and the experimental monetary values of three selected ocean and coastal ecosystem services: commercial fishing, carbon sequestration, and nature-based tourism.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 4. Nature: A driver of economic activity
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2025002
    Description: This fact sheet presents gross domestic product (GDP) data at the sub-drainage area geography. It outlines the way that natural resources and biophysical features throughout Canada help determine which industries will thrive in various areas across the country. It uses experimental mapped GDP data that shows the relationship between the environment and human activity. This article examines industries such as oil and gas, mining, electricity generation, agriculture, forestry, sight-seeing transportation, and accommodation and restaurants.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 5. Census of Environment: Nature—a driver of economic activity 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202527539704
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-02
  • 6. Ecosystem Accounting for Large Urban Areas in Canada
    Articles and reports: 16-001-M2025003
    Description: This technical paper provides an ecosystem accounting framework to assess Canada’s urban ecosystems and the ecosystem services they supply. The ecosystem accounts for large urban areas will measure ecosystem extent, condition and services following the internationally accepted environmental accounting standard. The technical paper will guide the development of urban accounts as part of the Census of Environment and will be used to engage with stakeholders about needs, methods, and uses of new data.
    Release date: 2025-07-14
  • 7. Census of Environment: An ecosystem accounting framework for large urban areas
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202519539568
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-07-14
  • 8. Census of Environment: Land cover 2020
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202508639053
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 9. Ocean and coastal ecosystems 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202435135223
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-12-16
  • 10. Census of Environment: Renewable freshwater from 1971 to 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202426336525
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-19
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Reference (11) (10 to 20 of 11 results)

  • 11. Contiguously Settled Areas: Boundaries and User Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2023001
    Description: This product contains contiguously settled area (CSA) boundaries for a subset of Canadian population centres for 2010 and 2020 with user documentation. The CSA boundaries are derived from land cover data and represent the geographic extent of settled areas based on their physical footprint on the landscape. The boundaries can be used for reference, mapping and spatial analysis of settled areas and urban ecosystems. The CSA boundaries are created and maintained under the umbrella of the Census of Environment, and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2023-10-27

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