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Forest accounts 2019

Published 27.11.2020
  • In 2019, the total consumption of wood material in Finland – 39.4 million dry-matter tons of wood – was almost 1% less than in the previous year.
  • According to the forest sector’s mass balance, as much as 57% of all wood dry-matter used in Finland was used for energy generation (black liquor and other concentrated liquors, solid wood fuels in heating and power plants and in small-scale housing). The amount of wood dry-matter utilized as energy generation has increased. At the turn of the millennium its share was 48%.
  • Of all wood dry-matter used in Finland in 2019, 41% was tied up in forest industry products. At the turn of the millennium, the share was about 50%. After the recession in 2008, the amount of wood dry-matter tied up in forest industry products has been clearly lower than that used in energy generation.  In 2019, 10% of all used wood dry-matter was tied up in paper and 8% in paperboard. The share of paper has been declining. The share of wood pulp was 10%, the share of sawn goods 12%, and the share of wood-based panels 2%.
  • In 2019, 15.2 dry-matter tons of wood tied up in forest industry products and 0,8 million tons tied up in roundwood and in wood residues were exported from Finland. In exports, 11,0 million tons were tied up in products of the pulp and paper industries, and 4.2 million tons in products of wood-products industries.  Dry-matter tons imported in Finland consisted of 5.1 million tons in roundwood and wood residues, and 1.2 million tons in forest industry products.
  • The data is based on the forest accounts by Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). The supply and consumption volumes of different products are converted into the same unit of measurement: dry-matter tons of wood. This makes it possible to compare the amounts of wood material bound directly in wood and in forest industry products.

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