Wood consumption 2023 (provisional)

The data have been revised on June 7th, 2024.

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 small-sized trees and large-sized stemwood at heating and power plants.
• A total of 23.8 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and various types of wood residues (-8%) 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, 15.2 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 (1.4 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 (small-sized trees and large-sized stemwood). In addition, roundwood includes imported chips and sawdust processed by the forest industry.

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.

The data of heating and power plants have been revised on June 7th, 2024. As a result, wood consumption increased by 0.1 million cubic metres compared to previously published figures.