Stocks of roundwood and pulp chips
Here you will find statistics on stocks of roundwood and pulp chips on four occasions per year.
Stocks of wood raw material
As of 31 December 2025, total timber stocks amounted to 9,3 million cubic meters, a total decrease of approximately 4% compared with the previous quarter.
- Pulpwood: 4,9 million cubic metres (-2 percent)
- Coniferous sawlogs: 3,4 million cubic metres (+27 percent)
- Pulp chips: 1 million cubic metres (-20 percent)
Since 2013, the Swedish Forest Agency collects quarterly data on stock volumes of softwood sawlogs, pulpwood, pulp chips and roundwood for energy purposes. The statistics cover the volumes of wood in stock at sawmills, pulp and paper mills, forest companies and purchasing enterprises.
During the period 1975-2012, Statistics Sweden (SCB) collected quarterly data for pulpwood and pulp chips as well as annual stock volumes for softwood sawlogs, partly on behalf of the Swedish Forest Agency and the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.
Definitions and explanations
- Sawmill/processing industry - Plant where sawing of round timber takes place with or without integration with further processing, such as planning, packaging and furniture manufacturing.
- Terminal - Intermediate storage site where debarking, sorting and measurement may occur, such as railway terminal and port.
- Roadside and other - stocks at forest road side.
- Softwood sawlogs - Sawlogs of pine and spruce.
- Mixed softwood pulpwood - Pulpwood of pine and mixture of softwood pulpwood. Has also been called pine/softwood pulpwood in the survey, but softwood pulpwood is the name used by the industry.
- Spruce pulpwood - Pulpwood consisting solely of Norway spruce.
- Hardwood pulpwood - Pulpwood consisting of hardwood.
- Roundwood for energy purposes - not including chips or other volumes than roundwood.
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Figure 2 shows timber stocks of over 20 million m3 in the early 1970s. Since then, stock volumes, especially for pulpwood, have decreased a lot. This is said except for the years 2005 to 2007 when storms Gudrun and Per brought unusually large timber stocks.
Apart from the above-mentioned events, we can see a small increase in stocks, from about 6 million m3 in the beginning of 2010 and between 7 and 10 million m3 in recent years.
Stocks of pulpwood by assortment
Figure 3 shows that coniferous pulpwood accounts for most pulpwood stocks. During the end of the10th century, stocks of coniferous pulpwood increased and amounted to a maximum of just over 4million m3 followed by a slight decrease. However, the highest recorded figure since 2010 was observed in the second quarter of 2025. Note that from 2023 spruce pulpwood is included in coniferous pulpwood.
From 2023 spruce pulpwood is included in softwood pulpwood
Stocks by wood balance region
Figures 4a and 4b show the stock volumes of coniferous sawlogs and pulpwood, respectively, at the end of each quarter by wood balance region. Information on wood balance region (VBO) is provided under the heading Wood balance regions.
The volumes vary between different wood balance regions. This is mainly due to differences in the industrial structure across the regions.