Ownership Structure
Who owns the Swedish forest? How old are the forest owners and where in the country do they live? Here you find statistics about the ownership of the Swedish forest.
The statistics are based on agricultural units from the property tax assessment and the basis for the information is thus based on the information that the property owners themselves provide in the declaration. The area reported in the statistics therefore refers to submitted productive forest land. The statistics are included in the Official Statistics of Sweden and have product number JO1405.
Property and ownership structure in 2023
The area of declared productive forest land amounts to more than 23 million hectares, according to the 2023 property tax assessment. In this text describing the statistics, reference is made throughout to declared area of productive forest land, which is the area specified by the property owners themselves in their property tax declaration. The National Forest Inventory provides the official statistics on area of forest land in Sweden.
Figure 1 shows a division of the area of declared productive forest land into different ownership classes.
Footnote: Size class is calculated according to shares.