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Small increase in forestry income
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Forest owners' income, 2011

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Small increase in forestry income

In 2011, average earnings for forest owners with a profit from forestry were NOK 37 000. Four out of five forest owners had a profit of less than NOK 50 000.

Numbers of forest owners and average entrepreneurial income from forestry. For personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry1Published 20 February 2013
20112010 - 2011
Number of ownersNOKChange in entrepreneurial income, per cent
1The statistics are based on data from tax statistics for personal taxpayers.
Total22 93937 0005.7
 
Productive forest area
25-99 decares2 41317 0006.3
100-249 decares4 85621 0005.0
250-499 decares5 11625 0008.7
500-999 decares5 00333 0000.0
1 000-1 999 decares3 27748 0009.1
2 000-4 999 decares1 75580 0000.0
5 000-19 999 decares476201 00010.4
20 000 decares or more43434 000-7.9

Source: Statistics Norway

In 2011, the number of personal forest owners with positive forestry income was 22 900. Of these, 8 per cent had an entrepreneurial income from forestry exceeding NOK 100 000.

Forestry income totalled NOK 947 million

There are 113 500 personal forest owners with a productive forest area of 25 decares or more. In 2011, their accumulated entrepreneurial income from forestry was NOK 849 million. In addition, spouses of forest owners had NOK 98 million in income from forestry in the same year. In 2010, the corresponding income was NOK 815 million and NOK 84 million respectively.

Average gross income increased

The average gross income of forest owners with entrepreneurial income from forestry was NOK 526 000, an increase of NOK 24 000 compared with 2010. Income from forestry accounted for 7 per cent of the gross income, while other entrepreneurial income accounted for 31 per cent. Income from wages and salaries accounted for 42 per cent, and the remainder was made up of pensions and other income.

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Tax is imposed on the average entrepreneurial income from forestry in the preceding five years.

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The income statistics are based on the registers of tax assessment and personal tax return.