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Statistics on
Forest properties
The statistics provide an overview of both the forest properties and forestry as an industry.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Forest properties and productive forest areaDownload table as ...Forest properties and productive forest area
2024 Number of properties Share Productive forest area Share In total 126 034 100.0 71 242 991 100.0 Productive forest area in decares 25-99 decares 43 393 34.2 2 409 343 3.4 100-249 decares 32 801 26.1 5 369 819 7.5 250-499 decares 21 508 17.2 7 649 603 10.7 500-999 decares 15 396 12.2 10 799 956 15.2 1 000-1 999 decares 8 044 6.4 11 084 842 15.6 2 000-4 999 decares 3 674 2.9 10 817 106 15.2 5 000-19 999 decares 984 0.8 8 540 453 12.0 20 000 decares or more 234 0.2 14 571 870 20.5 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Commercial roundwood removals, by county and size of property. Cubic metreDownload table as ...Commercial roundwood removals, by county and size of property. Cubic metre1
Total Size class by productive forest area in decares 25-99 decares 100-249 decares 250-499 decares 500-999 decares 1000-1999 decares 2000-4999 decares 5000-19999 decares 20 000 decares or more The whole country 2020 10 415 294 429 397 944 861 1 315 083 1 665 483 1 690 554 1 579 837 1 295 981 1 494 098 2021 11 632 299 483 374 1 076 603 1 411 005 1 897 061 1 923 557 1 853 397 1 421 488 1 565 814 2022 11 856 018 403 918 954 209 1 415 301 2 022 884 1 985 939 1 880 619 1 648 117 1 545 031 2023 11 442 375 413 359 909 142 1 316 191 1 923 321 1 923 673 1 698 266 1 569 847 1 688 576 2024 12 310 285 337 298 902 928 1 458 973 2 067 849 2 039 482 2 102 491 1 637 611 1 763 653 County Østfold 688 139 16 207 73 503 117 891 130 922 144 879 92 972 91 288 20 477 Oslo and Akershus 1 269 253 27 425 96 675 146 069 211 976 180 398 144 597 166 921 295 192 Buskerud 1 298 277 28 490 73 569 125 770 204 010 261 506 295 065 295 065 224 138 Innlandet 4 829 994 102 583 243 248 410 270 600 475 662 613 866 266 967 041 977 498 Vestfold 350 858 21 852 54 723 55 175 75 066 39 847 38 713 7 537 57 945 Telemark 804 917 8 547 43 850 43 841 110 726 169 893 200 730 70 926 156 404 Agder 936 340 13 062 66 986 155 187 230 928 203 891 : 60 023 : Rogaland : 5 420 30 388 24 925 25 937 8 669 : : - Vestland : 60 735 93 599 155 687 123 514 40 348 : : - Møre og Romsdal 305 066 21 926 46 154 70 160 65 618 68 919 32 289 - - Trøndelag - Trööndelage 923 232 23 555 53 938 118 310 207 064 201 511 152 519 41 623 124 712 Nordland - Nordlánnda 204 675 6 706 23 046 23 064 60 998 42 238 10 495 478 37 650 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 55 088 790 3 249 12 624 20 615 14 770 3 040 - - Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku : - - - - - - : : 1Includes properties with at least 25 decares productive forest area. Figures on roundwood removals are based on data from The Forest Trust Fund. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Forest properties by county and size classDownload table as ...Forest properties by county and size class1
2024 Total Size class by productive forest area in decares 25-99 decares 100-249 decares 250-499 decares 500-999 decares 1000-1999 decares 2000-4999 decares 5000-19999 decares 20 000 or more The whole country 126 034 43 393 32 801 21 508 15 396 8 044 3 674 984 234 County Østfold 4 782 1 616 1 292 844 567 303 116 39 5 Oslo and Akershus 5 887 2 205 1 489 984 657 320 130 73 29 Buskerud 7 095 1 894 1 709 1 194 1 103 650 400 131 14 Innlandet 20 586 7 286 4 900 3 186 2 329 1 472 902 408 103 Vestfold 3 182 1 277 946 494 285 124 48 4 4 Telemark 6 545 1 715 1 340 1 168 1 016 737 467 89 13 Agder 10 996 3 093 2 526 2 040 1 735 : 498 75 : Rogaland 5 074 2 107 1 424 784 473 223 58 : : Vestland 17 833 6 695 5 331 3 192 : 596 132 20 : Møre og Romsdal 9 052 3 501 2 551 1 507 1 017 : 81 6 : Trøndelag - Trööndelage 14 141 3 935 3 241 2 631 2 233 1 325 625 110 41 Nordland - Nordlánnda 11 104 4 057 3 025 1 957 1 310 593 134 16 12 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 9 296 3 661 2 942 1 513 804 284 79 8 5 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 461 351 85 14 : : 4 : 4 1Property in The Farm Register with at least 25 decares productive forest area. A forest property includes the total productive forest area owned by one owner within a municipality. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Productive forest area by county and size class in decaresDownload table as ...Productive forest area by county and size class in decares1
2024 Total Size class by productive forest area in decares 25-99 decares 100-249 decares 250-499 decares 500-999 decares 1000-1999 decares 2000-4999 decares 5000-19999 decares 20 000 decares or more The whole country 71 242 991 2 409 343 5 369 819 7 649 603 10 799 956 11 084 842 10 817 106 8 540 453 14 571 870 County Østfold 2 231 696 90 368 212 200 298 272 390 191 420 135 350 876 337 246 132 409 Oslo and Akershus 3 929 933 120 771 243 172 351 538 457 152 443 311 395 931 652 912 1 265 147 Buskerud 5 374 313 108 767 281 626 431 165 787 467 906 340 1 225 058 1 042 657 591 233 Innlandet 18 985 461 401 693 795 450 1 131 207 1 665 886 2 059 123 2 727 361 3 800 343 6 404 399 Vestfold 1 223 994 71 694 154 551 173 345 195 603 159 605 139 338 41 706 288 153 Telemark 5 431 179 94 706 219 657 421 044 726 727 1 027 932 1 364 962 757 913 818 237 Agder 6 063 970 172 827 417 870 735 256 1 227 428 : 1 461 077 550 369 : Rogaland 1 441 453 114 701 232 429 275 500 331 511 297 746 155 672 : : Vestland 5 030 837 374 582 871 986 1 126 780 : 798 581 366 404 147 310 : Møre og Romsdal 2 619 192 192 194 417 024 532 308 696 018 522 425 220 890 : : Trøndelag - Trööndelage 10 829 415 221 298 537 937 950 729 1 574 549 1 838 839 1 819 474 931 079 2 955 510 Nordland - Nordlánnda 4 529 908 220 101 494 307 690 698 911 354 812 903 361 510 124 660 914 376 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 2 714 342 208 279 478 874 527 344 549 425 378 998 219 149 82 030 270 243 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 837 297 17 362 12 737 4 420 : : 9 405 : 791 026 1Includes properties in The Farm Register with at least 25 decares productive forest area. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 13 February 2025.
Forest property
Property with at least 25 decares of productive forest area. Property parcels belonging to the same owner within one municipality are treated as one property.
Personal forest owner
Forest owner owning forest area as an individual owner. Forest areas owned jointly by several individuals are included for one of the owners; the reference owner.
Legal owners
Central government, the Educational Fund, common forest owned by the central government (Statsallmenning), common forest not owned by the central government (Bygdeallmenning), limited company, foundation, municipality etc.
Name: Forest properties
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
Municipality.
Yearly.
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The purpose of these statistics is to provide an overview of both the forest properties and forestry as an industry. Since 2006, Statistics Norway has published annual statistics for all forest properties by merging data from different administrative data sources. Prior to this, statistics for all forest properties were only available based on full censuses, the last of which was in 1989.
The main users of the statistics are professional forestry organisations, The Ministry of Agriculture and Food and various research and educational institutions.
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.
Statistics Norway has yearly statistics on commercial roundwood removals and silviculture based on the same sources as these statistics. Linking the Farm Register with these sources makes it possible to publish figures on commercial removals and silviculture by the size of the productive forest area of the properties and the forest owners' productive forest area.
The National Forest Inventory also publishes figures on the productive forest area in Norway. The inventory estimates a productive forest area that is more than 10 per cent larger than the aggregated areas from the forest properties. The National Forest Inventory estimates the area based on sample plots.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Including 2010, the statistics comprise all properties in the Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority with at least 25 decares of productive forest area.
As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area are based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register.
Some forest owners are represented in the Farm Register with more than one property within one municipality. In these cases, the properties owned by the same owner are merged into one property within the municipality. Thus the statistics on forest properties up to and including 2011 will include fewer units than the Farm Register. As from 2012 the number of forest properties incresed.
Common forests owned by the central government (Statsallmenning) will always be counted as one single property.
The statistics are derived from existing administrative data files.
Carteographic data and data on forest owners and properties from the cadastre (Land register) are combiined with The Farm Register of the Norwegian Agriculture Agency, and serves as the backbone of the statistics. The information from the Farm Register is combined with information at property level from different data sources such as the Register of Timber Trade and Diverted Trust Fund, and the Forest Trust Fund.
The statistics are derived from the whole population of forest properties.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data.The statistics are based on linked data files that were edited separately when established. The information on the productive forest area is checked if errors are suspected. Examples: i) If a forest property has commercial felling and does not have a forest area. ii) If a large forest property does not have commercial felling.
Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
The statistics on forest properties are comparable with statistics from the Census of Forestry 1967 and the Censuses of Agriculture and Forestry 1979 and 1989. They are also essentially comparable with statistics from the Sample Survey of Agriculture and Forestry in the 1990s and in 2000 and 2004. The number of forest properties has fallen from 128 300 in 1967 to 116 502 in 2005. The Censuses of Agriculture and Forestry 1979 and 1989 calculated 120 900 and 125 500 forest properties respectively. It has been difficult to trace all small-sized properties without commercial felling. In some regions it is difficult to assess whether the areas are productive or not. As from 2011, carteographic analysis are used to decide the properties and the number of properties increased to 131 800 properties. After a review of the properties that fullfill the requirement, the total in 2014 came to 128 200. This causes difficulties when comparing the number of forest properties over time.
Statistics are published for both forest properties and personal forest owners. The following is a brief explanation of the relationship between these units: a forest property is the forest owners' total productive forest area within a municipality. A forest owner may own forest properties in more than one municipality. Therefore the number of forest owners is less than the number of forest properties with a personal forest owner. About 113 000 forest properties with a personal owner are registered in The Farm Register. Out of the personal forest owners, almost 3 000 are deceased, living abroad or lacking information. The statistics on incomes are based on the personal forest owners that are alive.
The main concern is the quality of productive forest area. In the cadastre, 920 000 decares productive forest area are not linked to a title number of a holding number, and will not be included in the statistics. Furthermore, errors may arise when data are entered into the various administrative registers. Including 2010, 2-3 per cent of the quantity of commercial roundwood felled is not linked to any forest property. As from 2011, the Forest Trust Fund is used as source for roundwood cut. The new source also includes energy woood and some assortments that are removed from the statististics on commercial roundwood removals.