Crown Land: Indicators and Statistics - Ministry of Forests

Table 7 Estimated British Columbia GDP Produced on Crown Land, 2006
Sector
Agriculture and related
activities
Crown Land:
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Total BC GDP
(on all private and
Crown land)
$ (million)
% of
Total BC
GDP
BC GDP Associated with
all Provincial Crown Land 1
$ (million)
% of
Total
BC GDP
% of
Sector’s
GDP
BC GDP Associated with
Land Act Crown Land 1
$ (million)
% of
Total
BC GDP
% of
Sector’s
GDP**
1,265 0.8% 226 0.1% 17.9% 224 0.1% 17.7%
Energy 6,330 3.8% 5,191 3.1% 82.0% 5,191 3.1% 82.0%
Forestry 3,123 1.9% 2,890 1.7% 92.5% 81 0.0% 2.6%
Mining 3,765 2.3% 3,385 2.0% 89.9% 639 0.4% 17.0%
Public services 23,327 13.9% 1,343 0.8% 5.8% 18 0.0% 0.1%
Residential 16,320 9.8% 2 0.0% 0.0% 2 0.0% 0.0%
Tourism and
accommodation
Transport and
communications
2,722 1.6% 450 0.3% 16.5% 271 0.2% 10.0%
5,203 3.1% 73 0.0% 1.4% 73 0.0% 1.4%
Utilities and pipelines 3,679 2.2% 2,107 1.3% 57.3% 2,567 1.5% 27.9%
Subtotal 65,734 39.4% 15,667 9.3% 9,066 5.3%
Other Sectors Not
Utilizing Crown Land
101,606 60.6%
Total Provincial GDP 167,340 100%
Sources: Statistics Canada, BC Stats
1 All estimates are “most likely” estimates. These GDP data are in current or nominal dollars (i.e. without adjustment for inflation). The
2006 data are the latest available data at time of publication.
Figure 9 shows the estimated percentage of GDP produced on Land Act Crown land and on all provincial Crown
land from 2002 to 2006. The low and high measures give a sense of the uncertainty in the estimates, with this
uncertainty greater for the Land Act Crown land estimates.
In 2006, 4.5% of provincial GDP was produced on Land Act Crown land while 9.4% of provincial GDP was
produced on all provincial Crown land. 41
41 If the alternative definition of Crown land is used that includes the Crown land holdings of provincial Crown agencies, the figure for
all Crown land increases from 9.4% to 16.6%, principally because of the size of the land holdings of the provincial Crown agencies
associated with the health and education sectors. The estimate for the proportion of GDP associated with Land Act Crown land is
unaffected.