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.
Decrease in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector
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, going from 86.0% in the first quarter to 83.1% in the second quarter. This decline coincided with a decrease in hydroelectric production because of dry conditions in some areas of the country during the quarter.
Chart 1: Industrial capacity utilization rate in non-manufacturing industries
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Data table: Industrial capacity utilization rate in non-manufacturing industries
Source: Table 16-10-0109-01.
Decrease in capacity utilization rate in manufacturing
The capacity utilization rate in the manufacturing sector declined by 0.7 percentage points to 76.7% in the second quarter. This decrease is mainly attributed to petroleum and coal product manufacturing (-5.2 percentage points) and food manufacturing (-2.6 percentage points).
Chart 2: Variation by industry, in percentage points, second quarter of 2025 compared with first quarter of 2025
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Data table: Variation by industry, in percentage points, second quarter of 2025 compared with first quarter of 2025
Source: Table 16-10-0109-01.
Note to readers
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. In addition, they were updated starting from the first quarter of 2024 to align with the source data.
Data have been revised back to the first quarter of 2024 to account for revisions to the source data and new estimates from the statistical model.
Next release
Data on industrial capacity utilization rates for the third quarter of 2025 will be released on December 12.
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