Total roundwood removals and drain by region 2025

The data for 2024 were corrected on 14 April 2026.

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

In 2025, a total of 74.3 million cubic metres of stemwood was harvested for use in Finland, of which 85 per cent was industrial roundwood and 15 per cent energywood. The total amount of felled stemwood decreased by one per cent from the previous year; removals of industrial roundwood increased by one per cent, while the harvesting of energywood decreased by eight per cent.

The total drain decreased by one per cent to 90.2 million cubic metres. In addition to the stemwood harvested for use, the total drain includes almost 16 million cubic metres of dead stemwood remaining in forests.

Total roundwood removals

• In 2025, 74.3 million cubic metres of stemwood was harvested for use. This was 0.4 million cubic metres, or just under one per cent, less than in the previous year. Compared to the average level of the previous five years, the volume increased by one per cent.
• Of the total roundwood removals, 63.1 million cubic metres, or 85 per cent, consisted of logs and pulpwood. A total of 62.8 million cubic metres was harvested for the forest industry or for export, and 0.3 million cubic metres for the household consumption of forest owners. Log removals decreased by one per cent from the previous year, while pulpwood removals increased by two per cent.
• The remaining 11.2 million cubic metres was energywood, i.e. fuelwood for small residential buildings or stemwood harvested for wood chips used in heat and power plants. The volume decreased by eight per cent from the previous year. In addition, 3.3 million cubic metres of logging residues and stumps were harvested for energy use; these are not included in the statistics on total stemwood removals. The volume of logging residues and stumps harvested was nearly one-third higher than the year before.
• In February 2026, the Natural Resources Institute published updated estimates of the sustained yield of forests. You can explore the revised calculation methods and the regional results here (news available only in Finnish).

Total drain

• The total drain decreased by one per cent to 90.2 million cubic metres. In addition to the stemwood harvested for use, the drain included almost 16 million cubic metres of newly dead stemwood remaining in forests: eight million cubic metres of logging-residue stemwood and nearly eight million cubic metres of naturally died stemwood.
• Based on the National Forest Inventory, the annual increment of new stemwood in the whole country was about 103 million cubic metres, meaning that the total growing stock increased by approximately 13 million cubic metres.
• The amount of dead stemwood remaining annually in forests has roughly doubled compared to the early 1990s. The proportion of logging residues left in the forest has increased slightly, but the amount of naturally died stemwood left unused each year has nearly tripled over the past 30 years.