CA Capacity Utilization Rate

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. 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 ...

Canadian industries operated at 78.5% of their production capacity in the third quarter. This is an increase from 77.6% in the second quarter, which was revised downward by 1.7 percentage points. Capacity utilization in the construction sector rose 1.3 percentage points to 80.2% in the third quarter. The increase was the first quarterly gain following eight consecutive declines. The increase in the third quarter coincided with higher activity in engineering construction. Capacity utilization in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas ...

Canadian industries operated at 79.3% of their production capacity in the second quarter, down from 79.9% in the first quarter, which was revised down slightly. Capacity utilization in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector decreased by 1.0 percentage point to 75.9% in the second quarter. This decline coincided with the decrease in oil and gas extraction activities because of forest fires and maintenance work. Capacity utilization in the electric power generation, transmission and distribution sector also decreased, ...

Canadian industries operated at 80.1% of their production capacity in the first quarter, up slightly from 79.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024, which was revised down slightly. The capacity utilization rate in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector increased by 0.7 percentage points in the first quarter to 76.7%. This rise coincided with an increase in activity in the oil sands and in the support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction. The capacity utilization rate in the electric power generation, ...

Canadian industries operated at 79.8% of their production capacity in the fourth quarter, up from a rate of 79.4% in the third quarter, which was revised slightly higher. Capacity utilization in the construction sector rose 1.0 percentage point to 84.0% in the fourth quarter. This is the second straight quarterly increase after a series of nine consecutive declines. It coincided with increased activity in residential and non-residential building construction. By contrast, capacity utilization in the electric power generation, ...

Canadian industries operated at 79.3% of their production capacity in the third quarter, up slightly from 79.1% in the second quarter, which has not been revised since its release. Capacity utilization in the electric power generation, transmission and distribution industry rose 1.9 percentage points to 83.4% in the third quarter. This increase coincided with higher demand for electricity for cooling-related purposes because of higher-than-normal temperatures observed in some parts of the country during the summer. In contrast, ...

Canadian industries operated at 79.1% of their production capacity in the second quarter, up slightly from 78.6% in the first quarter of 2024, which was revised up slightly by 0.1 percentage point. Capacity utilization in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector rose 1.6 percentage points to 77.2% in the second quarter. This increase coincided with higher activity in both oil sands extraction—after production resumed in a number of facilities following maintenance and turnarounds late in the first quarter—and support ...

Canadian industries operated at 78.5% of their production capacity in the first quarter, which was little changed from the rate in the fourth quarter of 2023. The capacity utilization rate in the manufacturing sector edged down 0.1 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2023 to 76.8% in the first quarter of 2024. The decline was driven by a slowdown in wood product manufacturing (-3.0 percentage points) and non-metallic mineral product manufacturing (-4.5 percentage points). Following two quarterly increases, capacity ...