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Half of all properties cut for sale in last 20 years
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2016-09-22T10:00:00.000Z
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The number of forest properties, forest areas, commercial roundwood removals and type of owner. In 2015, one in nine cut for sale.

Forest properties, 2015

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Half of all properties cut for sale in last 20 years

During the last 20-year period, 62 000 forest properties sold timber at least once. In 2015, timber was cut for sale on 14 000 forest properties.

Forest properties and productive forest areaPublished 22 September 2016
2015
Number of propertiesShareProductive forest areaShare
In total128 099100.070 082 861100.0
Productive forest area in decares
25-99 decares44 01434.22 453 5353.5
100-249 decares33 54526.35 485 7047.8
250-499 decares22 18417.37 890 21811.3
500-999 decares15 58612.210 887 45915.5
1 000-1 999 decares7 9906.211 001 15115.7
2 000-4 999 decares3 5712.810 509 73115.0
5 000-19 999 decares9770.88 583 75012.2
20 000 decares or more2320.213 271 31318.9

Source: Statistics Norway

The activity level varied considerably between the counties. In 2015, forest owners in the county of Hedmark were the most active; 23 per cent of forest properties carried out commercial roundwood removals. In the western part of Norway, less than 5 per cent of the forest properties had commercial removals and in the northern part of the country the figure was even lower.

Low activity in western and northern parts of the country

Most of the forest properties without any timber for sale in the last 20-year period are small. A substantial part of them are located in the western or northern parts of Norway.

Average property size 55 hectares

In 2015, there were 128 100 forest properties with a productive forest area of 2.5 hectares or more in Norway. The average property size was 55 hectares. The total registered productive forest area amounted to 7.1 million hectares. A total of 33 500 of the forest properties are owned by a person who also runs an agricultural holding. In 2015, average commercial roundwood removals per property were 720 cubic metres.

New data from 2011Open and readClose

As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area is based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register. In addition, the statistics are built on data from several administrative registers.