Industrial capacity utilization rates, fourth quarter 2025
Released: 2026-03-13
78.5%
Fourth quarter 2025
-0.4 pts 
(quarterly change)
Canadian industries operated at 78.5% of their production capacity in the fourth quarter of 2025, a decrease from 78.9% in the third quarter, which was revised upward by 0.4 percentage points.
Construction sector leads the decline
Capacity utilization in the construction sector decreased 0.5 percentage points to 80.4% in the fourth quarter. This represents the eighth decline in 10 quarters. The decrease in the fourth quarter coincided with declining activity in residential and engineering construction.
Capacity utilization in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector also decreased, down by 0.6 percentage points to 77.1% in the fourth quarter. This decline coincided with the decrease in oil sands extraction activity.
Chart 1
Industrial capacity utilization rate in non-manufacturing industries
Capacity utilization rate in the manufacturing sector decreases
The capacity utilization rate in manufacturing declined 0.3 percentage points to 77.7% in the fourth quarter. The decrease is mainly attributable to fabricated metal product manufacturing (-6.6 percentage points) and wood product manufacturing (-1.4 percentage points). The latter was affected by the United States government's announcement that additional tariffs would be imposed on Canadian lumber during the quarter.
Chart 2
Variation by industry, in percentage points, fourth quarter of 2025 compared with third quarter of 2025
Note to readers
Please note that this is the final release of the industrial capacity utilization rates. Data on the capacity utilization rates of manufacturing industries will continue to be published as part of Statistics Canada's Monthly Survey of Manufacturing. To learn how the agency is adapting to continue producing high-quality data Canadians can rely on, visit Delivering trusted data through change.
The industrial capacity utilization rate is the ratio of an industry's actual output to its estimated potential output.
This program covers all manufacturing industries, as well as forestry and logging; mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; electric power generation, transmission and distribution; and construction.
For non-manufacturing industries, the quarterly pattern is derived from the output-to-capital ratio series, the output being the real gross domestic product at basic prices, seasonally adjusted, by industry.
In this release, the industrial capacity utilization rates from the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing were seasonally adjusted using X-12-ARIMA from the first quarter of 2017.
Data have been revised back to the first quarter of 2025 to account for revisions to the source data and new estimates from the statistical model.
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