Operating profit in non-industrial private forest 2016

• The operating profit of non-industrial private forestry stood at EUR 1.56 billion in 2016. Earnings of wood production per forest hectare were EUR 117. The real operating profit increased by four per cent from the year before, and being 13 per cent higher than on average in five previous years.
• Earnings of wood production in non-industrial private forestry totalled EUR 1.79 billion in 2016 (EUR 134 per hectare). These earnings include gross stumpage earnings calculated on the basis of volumes and stumpage prices of roundwood the number and stump price of wood from industrialcommercial and energy wood fellings and wood cut for private use.
• A total of EUR 218 million (EUR 21 per hectare) was invested in wood production in private forests. Compared with the preceding five-year period, investments went up by nearly six per cent. Total costs in the statistics of silvicultural and forest management and improvement work include an estimate of the value of work performed by forest owners (EUR 23 million).
• The operating profit is based on a calculation in which investments in wood production and estimated administrative and other costs are deducted from wood production earnings.
• Nominal values have been converted to real values using a cost-of-living index.

*16.10.23017 corrected