Forest accounts 2018

Figures corrected in 2017–2021 data on 29.11.2023.​

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

• In 2018, the total consumption of wood material – 39.6 million dry-matter tons of wood – was 4% higher than in the previous year. This was the highest figure during this millennium.
• According to the forest sector’s mass balance, as much as 56% of all wood material used in Finland in 2018 was used for energy generation, and 43% was bound in forest industry products. At the turn of the millennium, the same amount of wood dry-matter was bound in forest industry products as it was used in energy production. After the recession in 2008, the amount of wood dry-matter bound to forest industry products has been lower than that used in energy generation.
• Heating and power plants accounted for 48% and small-scale combustion 8% of the wood dry-matter used in Finland. In heating and power plants the most significant wood-based fuel was black liquor and other concentrated liquors from pulp industry.
• A fifth of all wood dry-matter was bound in the production of paper and paperboard. The share of wood pulp was 9% and the share of sawn goods 12%.
• In 2018, 16.1 dry-matter tons of wood was exported from Finland. Of this, 11.1 million tons was bound in products of the pulp and paper industries and 4.1 million tons in the products of wood-products industries.
• 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 dry-matter bound in wood and in forest industry products.