Total roundwood removals and drain, 2019 (provisional)

• According to the preliminary data of the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), a total of 71.8 million cubic metres of roundwood was harvested from Finnish forests in 2019, being eight per cent less than in the top year 2018.
• Of the total roundwood removals, 63.1 million cubic metres, or 88 per cent, consisted of logs and pulpwood. Of these, 62.8 million cubic metres were felled for the forest industries and to the export market and 0.3 million cubic metres for household consumption by forest owners.
• The remainder, 8.6 million cubic metres, consisted of energywood, i.e. stemwood to be used as fuelwood in residential housing or as wood chips in heat and power plants. In addition, 2.2 million cubic metres of logging residues and stumps were also harvested from forests for burning. Logging residues and stumps are not included in the total roundwood removal statistics.
• Luke estimated in February 2020 that the sustained yield of Finnish forests during the period from 2016 to 2025 is on average 80.5 million cubic metres of roundwood per annum. According to the preliminary data of total roundwood removal statistics, 89 per cent of this potential was used in 2019 and on average 91 per cent between 2016–2019.
• Last year, the roundwood drain was nearly 87 million cubic metres. The total drain comprises roundwood removals, as well as stemwood of logging residues left in forests plus naturally died stemwood. On the basis of the National Forest Inventory, the volume of standing trees increased by 108 million cubic metres. This means that the total volume of growing stock increased by roughly 21 million cubic metres.
• The data presented herein is preliminary. The publication date for final regional data is presented in the Release calendar of Luke’s statistics.
  
  

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