Forest land

Of the total growing stock of 3547 miljoner m³sk approximately 40% is pine and 39% spruce. Today there is ca 27.9 million hectare of Forest land.

The 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 3.6 million hectares of forest older than 140 years which represents ca 12.9 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 19% i northern Norrland and ca 15% in southern Norrland). In southern Sweden there is little forest land with an age over 140 years.

The volume of dead wood in forest land areas is an established measure of the level of biological diversity. Many 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 280 million m³ or 10 m³ per hectare. Roughly half of this dead wood is classified as hard dead wood and the rest in different stages of decomposition.

The total tree dry biomass, a key value in climate issues, is 2649 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

Percentage of area with occurance of ground-, field and scrub layer species 

Vegetation coverage for ground- and field layer species

Annual production for Vaccinum myrtillus and Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Standing volume and tree biomass

Growing stock 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 decompositon class. Excl. alpine areas

Volume dead wood by tree species

Volume dead wood by tree species. Excl. alpine areas

Dry weight biomass in the growing stock. Countywise

Dry weight biomass in the growing stock. Excl. alpine areas

Annual volume increment

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

Forest damage

 Mean annual natural loss by tree species

Area conditions

Vegetations- och ståndortsförhållanden

Standing volume and tree biomass

Forest damage

Skogsskador

SLU has been appointed by the Swedish government as responsible for the official statistics about the state and change of Swedens forests. Read more about SLU's official statistics. The Swedish Forest Agency is the responsible authority for felling statistics produced by SLU. As an authority responsible for official statistics SLU must make sure that:

• All statistics are objective
• All statistics are well documented
• All statistics are quaility assured

Official statistics must be made available without cost and also be accessable in electronic form.

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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

Current publication dates are shown in Statistics Sweden's publication calender.