Forest accounts 2000–2017

Figures corrected in 2017–2021 data on 29.11.2023.​

Read more on the page Changes and corrections in the statistics.​

• According to the forest sector’s mass balance, as much as 56% of all wood material used in Finland in 2017 was used for energy generation, and 43% was bound in forest industry products. The main groups’ shares of the total consumption have remained almost unchanged since 2012.
• A fifth of all wood material was bound in the production of paper and paperboard. The share of wood pulp was 9% and the share of sawn goods 12%.
• The data is based on the forest accounts initiated by Luke, in which the supply and consumption volumes of different products are converted into the same unit of measurement: dry-matter tons of wood. The use of conversion factors makes it possible to compare the amounts of wood material bound directly in wood and forest industry products.
• In 2017, the total consumption of wood material – 38.2 million dry-matter tons of wood – was 7% higher than during the previous five-year period. This was the highest figure during this millennium.
• Black liquor and other concentrated liquors produced by the forest industry alone amounted to 26% of the wood material used in Finland in 2017. Proportionally, the highest growth has in the past few years been in the amount of wood material bound in paperboard, wood pulp and sawn goods. At the same time, the importance of paper has decreased.
• In 2017, 15.5 dry-matter tons of wood was exported from Finland. Of this, 10.4 million tons (67%) was bound in products of the pulp and paper industries and 4.4 million tons (29%) in the wood-products industries.

Infographics:

Use balance of the Finnish forest industry, 2017