Forest land

Of the total standing volume of 3460 miljoner m³sk approximately 40% is pine and 40% spruceToday there is ca 28 million hectare of Forest land in Sweden of which 27 million hectares are below the alpine zone. The Swedish National Forest Inventory does not include data within the alpine zone and therefore the data presented here is only for Forest land below this boundary. All data presented are including areas within national parks and nature reserves.

Age distribution within Sweden's forests show that the most common age group is 41-60 years. Many species are connected to old forest and the there are circa 3 million hectares of forest older than 140 years which represents ca 12 percent of the forest land area. This type of forest is most common in Norrland where is a a significant proportion of the forest land area (ca 18% i northern Norrland and 14% in southern Norrland). In southern Sweden there is little forest land with an age over 140 years.

The standing volume is dominated by pine and srpuce. Of the total standing volume of 3460 miljoner m³sk approximately 40% is pine and 40% spruce. The volume of dead wood in forest land areas is an established measure of the level of biological diversity. Man y species are dependant on dead wood in different stages of decay and the lack of dead wood is one of the primary threats to many endangerd species in the forest landscape. Seen for the whole country the volume of dead wood is 233 million m³ or 8.5 m³ per hectare. Roughly half of this dead wood is classified as heard dead wood and the rest in different stages of decomposition.

The total tree dry biomass, a key value in climate issues, is 2600 million tonnes dry weight for forest land in Sweden.

Area conditions

Forest land divided into land use classes according to the Swedish Forestry Act 

Forest land area for different age classes 

Forest land area for different owner categories 

Vegetation and site conditions

Vegetation coverage for ground layer species 

Vegetation coverage for field layer species 

Annual production for Vaccinum myrtillus and Vaccinium vitis-idaea 

Standing volume and tree biomass

Standing volume for different tree species by diameter class 

Number of trees per hectare by diameter class 

Volume dead wood by decompositon class 

Volume dead wood by tree species 

Dry weight biomass in the growing stock 

Annual volume increment

Mean annual volume increment by tree speceis. Growth of felled tree included 

Forest damage

Area conditions

Vegetations- och ståndortsförhållanden

Standing volume and tree biomass

Forest damage

Skogsskador

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Publication plan for official statistics

JO0801 - Skogsdata - current statistics about the Swedish forests
JO0802 - Area conditions
JO0803 - Standing volume and tree biomass
JO0804 - Annual volume increment
JO0805 - Vegetation and site conditions
JO0806 - Forest damage

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