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Sweden has 28.3 million hectare forest land. Of this 22,5 million hectare are produktiv forest land where production is at least 1 cubic meter per hectare and year. Approximately 0.7 million hectares of productive forest land are wihin protected areas.
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
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