Stumpage earnings 2016

• The gross stumpage earnings of forest owners were EUR 2.07 billion in 2016, the highest earnings since the peak year of 2007. The earnings of private forest owners totalled EUR 1.79 billion, and those of the forest industry and the state EUR 0.29 billion.
• Removals increased by 6% and stumpage prices rose slightly. In EUR, earnings were EUR 114 million higher than the year before. In real terms, earnings increased by 7%, when prices were converted using the wholesale price index.
• Earnings were 9% above the ten-year average. Private forest owners’ earnings were up by 14%, but those of the forest industry and state fell by 12%.
• The most important assortment’s – spruce log’s – share of earnings rose to 39% (+3% percentage points) and the most important tree species remained spruce (47%). The key pulpwood assortment was pine pulpwood (12%). Sawtimber accounted for 69% of earnings (+1 percentage point).
• The sum of invested net stumpage earnings (gross stumpage earnings – investments in wood production) is based on an estimate.
  
  

Data for whole country and regions North Ostrobothnia and Kainuu have been revised in the database on 11 July 2017.