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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 the statistics
- Forest properties and productive forest areaDownload table as ...Forest properties and productive forest area
2023 Number of properties Share Productive forest area Share In total 125 449 100.0 70 871 198 100.0 Productive forest area in decares 25-99 decares 42 946 34.5 2 387 376 3.4 100-249 decares 32 798 26.1 5 371 695 7.6 250-499 decares 21 549 17.2 7 667 393 10.8 500-999 decares 15 350 12.1 10 764 370 15.2 1 000-1 999 decares 7 976 6.4 10 986 268 15.5 2 000-4 999 decares 3 629 2.9 10 710 802 15.1 5 000-19 999 decares 966 0.8 8 372 585 11.8 20 000 decares or more 235 0.2 14 610 709 20.6 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 2019 11 231 975 496 537 1 015 455 1 442 222 1 987 678 1 761 750 1 690 141 1 413 035 1 425 157 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 County Oslo and Viken (2020-2023) 2 984 428 91 000 237 605 317 956 496 628 498 283 465 636 480 968 396 352 Innlandet 4 551 170 164 477 256 029 386 124 575 037 608 228 694 308 887 674 979 293 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 1 159 992 32 190 85 147 131 230 178 423 261 434 194 238 76 470 200 860 Agder 834 133 19 207 56 231 116 128 195 780 211 237 165 970 : : Rogaland 138 308 14 132 33 039 35 268 18 985 27 382 : : : Vestland 440 415 47 777 124 987 97 070 121 462 32 620 9 509 : : Møre og Romsdal 269 358 15 140 42 609 63 855 68 062 : : : : Trøndelag - Trööndelage 782 924 17 480 50 399 112 715 198 080 168 340 130 672 39 905 65 333 Nordland - Nordlánnda 216 865 10 912 16 374 35 411 50 727 48 921 9 130 13 113 32 277 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 64 782 1 044 6 722 20 434 20 137 : : : : 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
2023 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 125 449 42 946 32 798 21 549 15 350 7 976 3 629 966 235 County Oslo and Viken (2020-2023) 17 709 5 665 4 502 3 013 2 326 1 270 644 241 48 Innlandet 20 545 7 260 4 901 3 191 2 316 1 475 899 399 104 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 9 715 2 958 2 322 1 656 1 291 872 504 : : Agder 10 920 3 022 2 528 2 030 1 743 1 026 497 : : Rogaland 5 049 2 087 1 407 801 478 218 53 : : Vestland 17 713 6 597 5 322 3 220 1 871 564 121 : : Møre og Romsdal 9 029 3 456 2 567 1 536 1 007 377 80 : : Trøndelag - Trööndelage 14 125 3 938 3 231 2 635 2 238 1 313 623 106 41 Nordland - Nordlánnda 10 983 4 007 2 996 1 958 1 285 579 129 17 12 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 9 661 3 956 3 022 1 509 795 282 79 9 9 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
2023 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 70 871 198 2 387 376 5 371 695 7 667 393 10 764 370 10 986 268 10 710 802 8 372 585 14 610 709 County Oslo and Viken (2020-2023) 11 505 989 317 539 738 445 1 077 483 1 633 385 1 762 818 1 969 278 2 022 945 1 984 096 Innlandet 18 913 418 400 728 794 768 1 134 775 1 656 429 2 058 991 2 721 223 3 668 958 6 477 545 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 6 657 577 164 635 380 395 594 068 913 126 1 207 979 1 481 039 837 044 1 079 291 Agder 6 043 467 169 523 418 345 730 329 1 230 548 1 416 160 1 462 105 : : Rogaland 1 427 393 113 978 228 792 281 257 335 292 292 443 141 831 : : Vestland 4 923 353 369 740 872 637 1 134 347 1 287 620 752 353 329 510 : : Møre og Romsdal 2 610 466 190 013 420 311 544 311 691 646 506 448 218 771 : : Trøndelag - Trööndelage 10 785 102 221 007 536 457 952 689 1 579 462 1 820 705 1 822 577 900 758 2 951 446 Nordland - Nordlánnda 4 477 828 217 921 490 032 691 105 895 135 793 485 346 464 128 853 914 832 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 3 526 606 222 291 491 513 527 029 541 725 374 886 218 005 88 959 1 062 197 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.