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. The area of Forest land (FAO-definition) is estimated to 27.9 mill hectares. Productive forest land (national definition) is the most dominant land use class, 23.5 mill hectares, followed by Mires (5 million hectares), Alpine areas (5.0 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 3634 mill. m³sk (including volume in alpine areas). Calculated as dry weight, an important value in data related to climate change, the total dry weight is 2725 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.

Below are links to pre-filtered views. Explore the tables by clicking on the table name. You can then select new time periods, geographic areas, etc., by clicking on "Choose variable." The statistics can be downloaded in various formats and are also available via API. For each table links to standard-error tables are included.

Area conditions

Standing volume and tree biomass

Annual volume increment

Forest damage

Mean annual natural loss by tree species