Wood consumption 2020

• In 2020, a total of 78.3 million solid cubic metres of roundwood were consumed in Finland, down by 4% from the previous year. During the peak year of 2018, total consumption of roundwood reached 84 million cubic metres.
• The majority of roundwood, 67.0 million cubic metres, was processed by the forest industries, showing a decrease of 6% from the previous year. Domestic roundwood accounted for 57.3 million cubic metres of all roundwood processed by the forest industries, being 7% less than in the year before. The volume of imported roundwood remained nearly unchanged at 9.7 million cubic metres.
• In 2020, a total of 4.4 million solid cubic metres of chips were imported into Finland, of which the forest industries consumed 2.6 million cubic metres. A total of 1.8 million solid cubic metres of imported forest chips were burned as energy, up by 13% from the previous year.
• Some 11.3 million cubic metres of roundwood was burned in energy generation, being 5% more than in the previous year. Of this amount, 6.5 million cubic metres were burned as firewood in small-scale housing and 4.8 cubic metres as forest chips manufactured from stemwood at heating and power plants.
• A total of 23.7 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and wood residues were used, 9% less than in the previous year. Of this, 8.8 million cubic metres were used for the production of forest industry products as sawmill chips and dust, while 15.0 million cubic metres were consumed in energy generation. In energy generation, heating and power plants consumed 2.8 million cubic metres of various types of forest residues (logging residues and stumps) and 10.4 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and other industrial wood residues (mainly industrial chips, sawdust and bark). The consumption of recycled wood and wood pellets and briquettes totalled 1.2 million cubic metres. In small-scale housing, a total of 0.4 million cubic metres of fuelwood from wood residues from sawmills and construction, as well as wood pellets, were burned.
• For more detailed information on wood consumed by the forest industries, please see the statistics release of the Natural Resources Institute Finland (22 April 2021). Statistics on solid wood fuels consumed by heat and power plants were published on 27 May 2020. Information on wood fuels used by small-scale housing during the 2016/2017 heating season is available on the statistics’ homepage.

Statistics for 2020 have been updated on 9th November 2021