All land

The Swedish National Forest Inventory collects most data for forest land and productive forest land in particular. Since 2003 areas within protected land are included and from 2016 also alpine areas. Productive forest land is the most dominant land use class followed by Mires (5 million hectares), Alpine areas (4.9 million hectare), and agricultural land (2.8 million hectares).

The total standing volume in Sweden has increased significantly since the Swedish National Forest Inventory was first undertaken in the 1920's. In the mid 1920's the total standing volume was 1790 mill. m³sk and is today 3601 mill. m³sk (including volume in alpine areas). Sweden's has 27.9 mill. hectares forest land of which 23.5 mill. are productive forest land. Calculated as dry weight, an important value in data related to climate change, the total volume dry weight is 2700 million tons DW.

Sweden's forests are dominated by spruce and pine, which is expected as the almost the whole country is within the Boreal region. Up until the 1970's the increase in volume was dominated by spruce, since then volume of Spruce, Pine and broadleaes have all increased. The increase in spruce slowed down after severe storms in 2005 and 2007 but has now recovered but today pine is the most commen species in terms of volume.

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Area conditions

Standing volume and tree biomass

Annual volume increment

Forest damage

Mean annual natural loss by tree species