Area

Sweden has 22.7 million hectare productive forest land and 0.7 million hectare productive forest land within protected areas. Forest land according to international definitions covers 28.4 million hectares. 

The largest ownership category is individual private owners who own 52% of the productive forest area. The rest is divided equally between companies and other owners both with ca 24%.

The most common forest type in Sweden is pine forest which covers 38% of Sweden's productive forest area. Other important forest types are spruce forest (27%), mixed coniferous forest (15%) and decidious forest (6%).

Thinning stage forest and final felling forest are the dominant maturity classes with 38% and 33% of productive forest area respectively. Young forest (including pre-commercial felling stage forest) and bare forest land account for 29% of the productive forest area.

Age distribution has undergone major changes during the last 100 years due to the mechanisation of forestry activeties and the Swedish forest have today a even age distribution.

 All the data above are 5 year averages for the period 2004-2008