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Over the past century, BC’s forest sector helped to drive the provincial economy, shape the province’s infrastructure and communities and provided British Columbians with a quality of life unsurpassed anywhere in the world. Today, the forest industry remains the key economic engine in BC. Industry sales are responsible for 43% of manufacturing shipments in BC and 13% of BC’s Gross Domestic Product. The economic activity created by the forest sector is the largest single source of provincial employment, accounting for over 200,000 jobs.
In the interior of BC, 24 of 32 local economic areas, representing over 100 communities, were found to be dependent on the forest industry for the dominant share of private sector employment income, making a healthy forest sector critical to their future. This 2001 study found that local dependency on the forest sector had increased since 1996.
The industry is responsible for over $3.5 billion in payments to government, including over $1.5 billion of payments from direct employees.
For more details, see  PWC Statistics (30KB pdf) and the Forest Industry Statistics page.
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