Total roundwood removals and drain, 2022 (provisional)

According to preliminary data, stemwood removals were 75 million cubic metres in 2022, showing a decrease of two per cent from the previous year. Of this volume, industrial timber accounted for 86 per cent and energywood for 14 per cent. Total drain decreased to 89 million cubic metres.

According to the preliminary data of Luke, a total of 74.7 million cubic metres of stemwood was harvested from Finnish forests in 2022. Volume fell by two per cent year on year but was one per cent higher than the average over the previous five years.
Of the total stemwood removals, 64.1 million cubic metres, or 86 per cent, consisted of logs and pulpwood. Of these, 63.8 million cubic metres were felled for the forest industries and to the export market and 0.3 million cubic metres for household consumption by forest owners. Log removals increased by two per cent from the previous year, but the volume of pulpwood fell by seven per cent.
The remainder, 10.6 million cubic metres, consisted of energywood, i.e. stemwood to be used as fuelwood in residential housing or as wood chips in heat and power plants. In addition, 2.5 million cubic metres of logging residues and stumps were also harvested from forests for burning. Logging residues and stumps are not included in the total stemwood removal statistics.
Luke has estimated that the sustained yield of Finnish forests during the period from 2016 to 2025 is on average 80.5 million cubic metres of stemwood per annum. During this period, felling volumes have covered an average of 91 per cent of Finland’s felling potential, with the annual level ranging from 86 to 97 per cent. According to preliminary data, felling volumes in 2022 decreased by two percentage points from the previous year, covering 93 per cent of the estimated potential.
As a result of the reduction in felling, total drain decreased to 89 million cubic metres. The total drain comprises stemwood removals and in total 15 million cubic metres of stemwood of logging residues and naturally died stemwood left in forests. On the basis of the National Forest Inventory, the annual increment of the growing stock totals 103 million cubic metres. This means that the total volume of growing stock increased by approximately 14 million cubic metres.
The data presented herein is preliminary. The publication date for final regional data is presented in the Release calendar of Luke’s statistics.