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Statistics Canada Updates 2025 Infrastructure Economic Account Data

In a June 12, 2026 historical release, Statistics Canada refreshed its 2025 Infrastructure Economic Account estimates, aligning the published series with the first-quarter 2026 Income and Expenditure Accounts.

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Key takeaways

  • Statistics Canada updated 2025 estimates covering infrastructure investment, asset stock, remaining useful service life, and economic and environmental effects.
  • The refreshed estimates were stated to be consistent with the first-quarter 2026 release of the Income and Expenditure Accounts.
  • The release identifies infrastructure-related greenhouse-gas estimates as including both direct emissions and indirect supply-chain emissions in Canada.
  • Statistics Canada noted that these emissions measures are not the same as figures in Canada’s official national greenhouse-gas inventory.

2025 infrastructure account series refreshed

Statistics Canada’s June 12, 2026 release updated the 2025 data in its Infrastructure Economic Account. The update covered estimates for infrastructure investment, the stock of infrastructure assets, the assets’ remaining useful service life, and associated economic and environmental impacts.

The agency did not provide individual amounts, rates, provincial detail, or asset-category results in the release text. Instead, it announced that the underlying 2025 estimates had been refreshed and pointed users to its infrastructure and economic-account resources for the related data products.

For businesses assessing conditions around construction, infrastructure supply chains, equipment use or long-lived assets, the account is relevant as an official statistical framework spanning both investment activity and the service life of existing infrastructure. The release itself, however, does not identify any new funding, lending terms, tax measures, procurement actions, or borrower-specific changes.

Updated estimates aligned with national accounts release

Statistics Canada said the estimates published in this 2026 update were aligned with the first-quarter 2026 release of the Income and Expenditure Accounts. That alignment matters because it places the infrastructure-account update within the agency’s broader macroeconomic accounting framework rather than presenting it as a standalone business-finance measure.

The historical release did not describe revisions to particular industries, businesses, projects or regions. It also did not state whether the update changed prior investment estimates by a particular magnitude. As a result, the announcement establishes the timing and scope of the revised 2025 series, while the release text alone does not support conclusions about the direction of infrastructure activity or its effect on financing conditions.

Emissions figures use a distinct accounting basis

The release also clarified the treatment of greenhouse-gas estimates associated with infrastructure investment. Statistics Canada said its measure includes emissions generated directly as well as emissions arising indirectly through the Canadian supply chain.

These infrastructure-attributable emissions estimates form part of Statistics Canada’s Physical Flow Accounts, which the agency said are compiled under the United Nations’ System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. The agency cautioned that this accounting output differs from the emissions figures published by Environment and Climate Change Canada in the official national greenhouse-gas inventory.

For companies using public data in infrastructure planning, supplier analysis or environmental reporting context, the distinction is practical: the two sources are based on different accounting approaches. The June 2026 notice directs users to a Canadian Centre for Energy Information description of the differences, rather than presenting the measures as interchangeable.