page_title: Economy of Alberta
section_title: Agriculture and forestry
hierarchical_section_title: Economy of Alberta / Sectors / Agriculture and forestry
caption_attribution_description: Grain Elevator - Alberta
context_page_description: Alberta's economy is the sum of all economic activity in Alberta, Canada's fourth largest province by population. Alberta's GDP in 2018 was CDN$338.2 billion. Although Alberta has a presence in many industries such as agriculture, forestry, education, tourism, finance, and manufacturing, the politics and culture of the province have been closely tied to the production of fossil energy since the 1940s. Alberta—with an estimated 1.4 billion cubic metres of unconventional oil resource in the bituminous oil sands—leads Canada as an oil producer.
  For decades Alberta had economic booms because of revenue from oil and natural gas extraction and the economic spin-offs, which included growth in the petrochemical industry and in pipeline networks.
  In 1985, the energy industry accounted for 36.1% of Alberta's GDP; Alberta's GDP was $66.8 billion in 1985, and $335 billion in 2018.
  In 2018, Alberta's energy sector contributed over $71.5 billion to Canada's nominal gross domestic product.
caption: Grain elevator in southern Alberta
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