Increasing number of older people with income from forestry

In 2022, almost 7,100 people over 74 had an income from forestry, which is a doubling since 2011. In total, 46,000 people had an income from forestry in 2022, 36 percent were aged 65 and over.

Almost 9 percent of the area of regeneration felling is left as environmental consideration areas

Just over 9 percent of the regeneration area was left as environmental consideration areas during the felling seasons 2018/2019 – 2020/2021. The average width of the zones left as consideration areas around water was 11 metres and the proportion of the shoreline that lacked a zone with consideration areas was 35 percent. The largest 5 percent of contiguous areas of bare forest land in 2023 were 15 hectares or larger.

Area of approved regeneration unchanged in 2024

Statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency show that 81 percent of the annual harvested forest area has been regenerated to the levels stipulated by the regulations as of 2021 in the Forestry Act. In 2022, the Swedish Forest Agency revised the regulations regarding the obligation to establish new forests. In next year's results, when sufficient data is available, regrowth will also be evaluated against the new regulations. This year’s result is in parity with the previous year, which was the lowest approval figure for ten years.