Total roundwood removals and drain by region 2024

In 2024, a total of 73.7 million cubic metres of stemwood was harvested in Finland, 85% of which was industrial roundwood and 15% energywood. The total amount felled was one per cent higher than in the previous year. The volume of total drain increased by 1% to 89.6 million cubic metres. 

New calculation criteria were introduced for the calculation of total drain. They resulted in a slight reduction in the amount of stemwood remaining unused in the forest as logging residues and a clear increase in the amount of naturally dead stemwood remaining in the forest.

Total roundwood removals

• In 2024, 73.7 million cubic metres of stemwood was harvested for use. This is an increase of 1.1 million cubic metres, or 1%, from the previous year. Compared to the average level of the previous five years, the increase was slightly lower.
• Logs and pulpwood accounted for 62.4 million cubic metres, or 85%, of stemwood removals. A total of 62.1 million cubic metres was felled for the forest industry or for export, and 0.3 million cubic metres for household consumption of forest owners. Log removals increased by 5% from the previous year, and the volume of pulpwood fell by 1%.
• The remaining 11.3 million cubic metres was energywood, i.e. stemwood to be used as fuelwood in residential housing or as wood chips in heat and power plants. This was the same amount as a year earlier. In addition, 2.5 million cubic metres of logging residues and stumps were harvested for burning, which are not included in the total stemwood removal statistics.

Use of the estimated harvesting potential

• Luke estimates that the sustained yield of timber and energywood from forests available for timber production will average 79.8 million cubic metres of stemwood per year over the ten-year period 2019-2028. Over the past six years, the harvesting rate for the whole country has fluctuated between 86% and 96% each year, averaging 92% of the estimated potential. In the three northernmost provinces, the average harvest has been on average of 80%. In the rest of Finland, the level of harvesting has been much higher, averaging 96% of the sustained yield.
• In 2019-2024, the felling volume of stemwood exceeded the sustained yield estimate in seven regions in southern and central Finland. In Åland, forests were devastated by the storms in 2019 and average harvests during the period under review were 8% above the harvesting potential estimate. In the regions of Satakunta, Kanta-Häme, Pirkanmaa, Päijät-Häme, Kymenlaakso and South Karelia, the exceedances were between 1% and 7%.
• In 2024, the whole country fell 6.0 million cubic metres short of the estimated harvesting potential, so 92% of the potential was used. In the three northernmost provinces, the average level of harvesting increased by four percentage points from the previous year to 83%, while in the southernmost Finland the increase was 1% to 96%. Logging exceeded the estimated potential in a total of five regions: Kanta-Häme, Pirkanmaa, Päijät-Häme, Kymenlaakso and Etelä-Karjala.

Total drain

• With the increase in removals, the total drain increased by 1% to 89.6 million cubic metres. In addition to the stemwood felled for use, this included about 16 million cubic metres of stemwood died and remaining in forests, eight million cubic metres of logging residues and eight million cubic metres of naturally died stemwood.
• Based on 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 13 million cubic metres.

New basis for calculating the total drain 

New criteria for calculating the total drain were introduced, based on the data measured in the 13th National Forest Inventory (NFI13) in 2019-2023. They increased the natural drain in the whole country to 7.9 million cubic metres, which is 1.8 million cubic metres more than in the previous measurements. The average proportion of deadwood remaining in the forest from felling decreased slightly, although the changes varied by species and region. 

The new calculation criteria were introduced in the statistics retroactively for the whole NFI13 inventory period 2019-2023, as they were more accurate for these years than the previous criteria. The drain data for this period was recalculated. The calculation of the 2014-2018 drain was also revised, using the criteria from the 12th National Forest Inventory (2014-2018). 

This statistical revision reduced the 2014-2018 total drain by an average of 0.5 million cubic metres, or 0.6%. For the period 2019-2023, the average increase in drain was 1.4 million cubic metres, or 1.6%.

Change in statistics 24.4.2025.​

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