Data description

Swedish National Forest Inventory: Statistics

Last changed: 26 August 2024

The Swedish National Forest Inventory reports official statistics on the condition and change of forests and is based on a nationwide annual sample inventory of Sweden's forests that has been conducted since 1923.

Statistics are available for various areas, including area conditions, timber stock and tree biomass, annual growth, forest damage, vegetation and site conditions, felling, as well as detailed inventories of plants, counts of blueberries and lingonberries, and inventories of specific objects, such as ant hills and traces and signs of woodpeckers.

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Data can be downloaded from the Swedish National Forest Inventory statistics database.

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Cornelia Roberge

Metadata

Publisher Department of Forest Resource Management
Funding agency SLU, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Keywords Forest, forest land, trees, tree species, environment, production, quality, timber stock, tree biomass, growth, forest damage
Data citation

Fridman J., Holm S., Nilsson M., Nilsson P., Ringvall A. H., Ståhl G., 2014. Adapting National Forest Inventories to changing requirements – the case of the Swedish National Forest Inventory at the turn of the 20th century. Silva Fennica vol. 48 no. 3 article id 1095. DOI: 10.14214/sf.1095.

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File format Via PxWeb: JSON, Textfil, HTML, Excel, PC-Axis
Language Swedish
Frequency of update Annually
Data access service API
Technical contact Karl-Erik Grundberg
Subject area
  • Biology
Habitat type
  • Mountainous landscapes
  • Forest
  • Wetlands
Species group
  • Vascular plants
Swedish environmental objectives
  • Reduced climate impact
  • Sustainable forests
  • Thriving wetlands
  • A magnificent mountain landscape
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