Wood consumption 2019

• In 2019, a total of 81.9 million solid cubic metres of roundwood were used in Finland, which was 3 per cent lower than the previous year’s record and the second highest in history.

• Most of the roundwood (71.1 million cubic metres) was consumed to manufacture forest industry products. Of the total amount, 61.3 million cubic metres consisted of domestic roundwood and 9.8 million cubic metres of imported roundwood. Forest industries’ total roundwood consumption decreased by 3 per cent from the previous year. The consumption of domestic roundwood decreased by 5 per cent, while that of imported roundwood increased by 7 per cent.

• In total, 10.8 million cubic metres of roundwood were used in energy generation. This was the same volume as in 2018. Of this amount, 6.5 million cubic metres were burned as fuelwood in small-scale housing and 4.3 cubic metres as forest chips manufactured from stemwood at heating and power plants.

• A total of 26.3 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and wood residues were used, nearly the same amount as in the previous year. Of this, 9.6 million cubic metres were used for the production of forest industry products as sawmill chips and dust, while 16.7 million cubic metres were consumed in energy generation. In energy generation, heating and power plants consumed 3.3 million cubic metres of various types of forest residues (logging residues and stumps) and 13.0 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and other industrial wood residues (mainly industrial chips, sawdust and bark). In small-scale housing, a total of 0.4 million cubic metres of fuelwood from wood residues from sawmills and construction, as well as wood pellets, were burned.

• The Forest industries’ wood consumption is presented in more detail in Natural Resources Institute Finland’s statistics publication dated 23 April 2020. Detailed information on Wood in energy generation was published on 28 May 2020. Data on Fuelwood consumption in small-scale housing are available on the statistics’ home page.

Statistics for 2019 have been updated on 4th November 2020