Volumes and prices in roundwood trade 2021

• In 2021, the average price paid for pine logs purchased from non-industrial private forests in standing sales was EUR 62.0 per cubic metre, and the average price paid for spruce logs was EUR 66.1 per cubic metre. In real terms, the prices increased from the previous year by ten and nine per cent respectively (deflated using the cost-of-living index). The nominal average prices increased by roughly EUR 7.
• The standing sales price was EUR 18.4 per cubic metre for pine pulpwood, EUR 20.7 for spruce pulpwood and 17.7 for birch pulpwood. The increase in prices ranged from two to three per cent in real terms, while the nominal prices increased to nearly EUR 1 per cubic metre.
• In 2021, pulpwood accounted for two thirds of the total volume of delivery sales. The average roadside price was EUR 31.7 per cubic metre for pine pulpwood, EUR 33.0 for spruce pulpwood and 32.5 for birch pulpwood. The real price level for delivery pulpwood decreased by two per cent from the previous year in real terms.
• In 2021, a total of 47.4 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood purchased from non-industrial private forests were recorded in the wood trade statistics. Of this volume, standing sales accounted for 88 per cent, and delivery sales for 12 per cent. Of all assortments, spruce logs were purchased most, accounting for a little more than a quarter of the total wood trade volume. Pine pulpwood accounted for less than a quarter, and pine logs for a fifth. The log purchasing volume was exceptionally high, being even higher than the volume of pulpwood purchases.
• The wood trade volume increased by a total of 28 per cent from the previous year and by 13 per cent compared with the previous five-year average. Log trade increased by 42 per cent, and pulpwood trade by 16 per cent, from the previous year.
• Unit prices in roundwood trade are recorded in the statistical database at the fair prices valid each time. However, price changes are examined in the texts and graphs in real terms by eliminating the change in value using the cost-of-living index. Before February 2022, the wholesale price index was used in this calculation.

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The prices presented in the statistics are based on prices recorded in wood trade agreements between wood buyers and sellers. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics.

Information for the statistics is collected from the largest wood buyers and from forest management associations. As the information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland, the published wood volumes represent about 90 per cent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.