Wood consumption 2023

Roundwood consumption totalled 75.4 million cubic metres in 2023. Forest industry production accounted for 81% of this volume, and the remaining amount was burned as energy.

• In 2023, a total of 75.4 million cubic metres of roundwood was consumed in Finland (-4%),
  • of which 61.2 million cubic metres (-6%) were processed by the forest industry. Domestic roundwood accounted for 57.8 million cubic metres (-6%) and imported roundwood for 3.3 million cubic metres (-16%) of this volume.
  • A total of 14.2 million cubic metres of roundwood (+6%) was burnt in energy generation. Of this amount, 6.5 million cubic metres were consumed as firewood in small-scale housing and 7.7 million cubic metres as forest chips manufactured from roundwood at heating and power plants.
• A total of 23.8 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and various types of wood residues (-7%) were consumed.
  • The volume of by-products and residues consumed in forest industry production as chips and sawdust was 8.5 million cubic metres (-7 %).
  • In total, 15.3 million cubic metres of by-products and residues were consumed in energy generation (-8 %). Of this volume, heating and power plants consumed 3.3 million cubic metres as forest chips made from forest residues (logging residues and stumps) and 10,1 million cubic metres as forest industry by-products (mainly industrial chips, sawdust and bark). In addition, this volume includes recycled wood and pellets burned at heating and power plants (1.5 million cubic metres) and different types of recycled wood, by-products and pellets burned in small-scale housing (0.4 million cubic metres).

Roundwood comprises industrial logs and pulpwood, as well as roundwood consumed by heating and power plants in energy generation and burned in small-scale housing. In addition, roundwood includes imported chips and sawdust processed by the forest industry, as these quantities have not previously been included in the roundwood consumption figures.

By-products and residues comprise domestic chips and sawdust consumed in forest industry production and solid forest industry by-products (not liquid by-products) consumed in energy generation, pellets and recycled wood, as well as forest chips made from logging residues and stumps.

Compared to the preliminary statistics, the use of roundwood increased by 0.1 million cubic metres and the use of by-products and residues by 0.05 million cubic metres due to the revision of the statistics on wood in energy generation. More detailed data on wood consumption in the forest industry are presented in the statistical release of the Natural Resources Institute of Finland of 24 April 2024, while data on solid wood fuels consumed by heating and power plants are presented in the statistical release of 20 November 2024.