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Forest owners' income
The statistics provide an overview of personal forest owners income, debt and wealth.
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- Numbers of forest owners and average entrepreneurial income from forestry. Comprises personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestryDownload table as ...Numbers of forest owners and average entrepreneurial income from forestry. Comprises personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry1
2023 2022 - 2023 Number of owners NOK Change in entrepreneurial income, per cent Total 17 638 75 000 11.9 Productive forest area 25-99 decares 1 359 30 000 11.1 100-249 decares 3 047 38 000 2.7 250-499 decares 3 630 43 000 13.2 500-999 decares 4 078 59 000 5.4 1 000-1 999 decares 3 084 87 000 10.1 2 000-4 999 decares 1 839 138 000 14.0 5 000-19 999 decares 548 351 000 21.0 20 000 decares or more 53 1 115 000 30.4 1The statistics are based on data from tax statistics for personal taxpayers. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Average incomes, debt, gross wealth and assessed taxes for personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry. NOKDownload table as ...Average incomes, debt, gross wealth and assessed taxes for personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry. NOK1
Forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry Gross income2 Debt Taxable gross wealth Assessed tax Personal income, salaries and pensions Personal income, salaries Total entreprenurial income Of this entrepreneurial income forestry Other income 2023 The whole country 17 638 1 007 000 2 733 000 6 597 000 261 000 461 000 367 000 414 000 75 000 131 000 County Oslo and Viken (2020-2023) 4 654 1 183 000 3 005 000 9 604 000 341 000 530 000 422 000 445 000 90 000 209 000 Innlandet 4 541 1 014 000 2 998 000 6 209 000 254 000 423 000 330 000 474 000 107 000 117 000 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 1 662 1 017 000 2 193 000 6 020 000 273 000 505 000 400 000 352 000 64 000 160 000 Agder 1 109 842 000 1 924 000 6 051 000 217 000 478 000 374 000 273 000 64 000 92 000 Rogaland 369 1 058 000 3 001 000 6 995 000 264 000 429 000 359 000 473 000 41 000 157 000 Vestland 1 295 892 000 1 703 000 4 777 000 222 000 451 000 362 000 343 000 41 000 97 000 Møre og Romsdal 595 865 000 2 554 000 4 379 000 204 000 405 000 319 000 337 000 36 000 123 000 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 3 091 873 000 2 954 000 4 498 000 198 000 417 000 343 000 398 000 44 000 58 000 Nordland - Nordlánnda 286 793 000 2 638 000 4 438 000 162 000 338 000 247 000 409 000 50 000 45 000 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 36 989 000 2 809 000 5 432 000 249 000 381 000 246 000 577 000 38 000 32 000 Productive forest area 25-99 decares 1 359 897 000 2 328 000 4 653 000 217 000 472 000 367 000 349 000 30 000 76 000 100-249 decares 3 047 932 000 2 362 000 5 401 000 236 000 462 000 364 000 364 000 38 000 106 000 250-499 decares 3 630 940 000 2 563 000 5 262 000 232 000 454 000 362 000 384 000 43 000 102 000 500-999 decares 4 078 967 000 2 619 000 5 685 000 244 000 442 000 348 000 409 000 59 000 117 000 1 000-1 999 decares 3 084 1 039 000 2 710 000 7 020 000 270 000 470 000 380 000 409 000 87 000 160 000 2 000-4 999 decares 1 839 1 140 000 3 105 000 10 417 000 333 000 488 000 393 000 484 000 138 000 168 000 5 000-19 999 decares 548 1 518 000 4 987 000 14 598 000 448 000 480 000 388 000 704 000 351 000 335 000 20 000 decares or more 53 3 888 000 19 876 000 46 731 000 1 245 000 556 000 509 000 2 208 000 1 115 000 1 124 000 1The statistics are based on data from tax statistics for personal taxpayers. 2Gross income is total taxable wages, salaries, pensions, entreprenurial income and property income.] Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Incomes, debt, gross wealth and assessed taxes for personal forest owners with at least 25 decares productive forest area. NOK millionDownload table as ...Incomes, debt, gross wealth and assessed taxes for personal forest owners with at least 25 decares productive forest area. NOK million
Number of forest owners Gross income1 Debt Taxable gross wealth Assessed tax Personal income, salaries and pensions Personal income, salaries Total entreprenurial income Of this entrepreneurial income forestry Other income 2023 In total 116 429 98 323 179 829 690 750 26 840 64 914 44 671 16 357 1 324 17 052 County Oslo and Viken (2020-2023) 21 042 23 635 43 984 225 190 7 374 13 123 9 369 3 785 421 6 728 Innlandet 16 974 13 542 29 301 75 901 3 356 8 343 5 833 3 311 485 1 888 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 8 774 7 930 13 662 48 424 2 199 5 186 3 734 1 246 106 1 498 Agder 9 391 7 309 12 027 47 937 1 933 5 367 3 674 779 71 1 163 Rogaland 5 590 5 308 10 873 35 625 1 462 3 355 2 397 1 121 15 831 Vestland 16 022 12 746 18 781 83 433 3 467 9 146 6 298 1 757 53 1 842 Møre og Romsdal 8 102 6 038 10 106 34 041 1 555 4 454 3 045 857 21 727 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 13 405 10 655 25 045 66 258 2 721 7 063 5 211 2 317 136 1 275 Nordland - Nordlánnda 8 940 5 857 9 117 42 047 1 483 4 534 2 580 700 14 623 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 8 189 5 302 6 933 31 894 1 292 4 341 2 529 484 1 477 Productive forest area 25-99 decares 38 862 29 946 47 159 207 907 8 133 22 289 14 505 3 081 41 4 575 100-249 decares 30 576 24 635 42 860 155 813 6 564 17 118 11 611 3 483 117 4 034 250-499 decares 20 442 16 852 32 039 100 314 4 383 11 239 7 939 3 084 154 2 529 500-999 decares 14 664 13 316 26 566 93 337 3 576 7 822 5 696 2 958 239 2 536 1 000-1 999 decares 7 620 7 909 16 250 70 718 2 357 4 090 3 085 1 973 267 1 846 2 000-4 999 decares 3 407 3 835 9 636 37 377 1 179 1 885 1 462 1 167 254 783 5 000-19 999 decares 779 1 267 3 875 18 145 446 420 327 442 192 406 20 000 decares or more 79 564 1 443 7 139 202 52 46 170 59 343 1Gross income is total taxable wages, salaries, pensions, entreprenurial income and property income.] Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Entrepreneurial income forestry for personal forest owners, by size of incomeDownload table as ...Entrepreneurial income forestry for personal forest owners, by size of income1
2022 2023 Entrepreneurial income forestry. NOK million Forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income Entrepreneurial income forestry. NOK million Forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income Total 1 185 17 816 1 324 17 638 Entrepreneurial income forestry 1 - 49 000 NOK 188 12 993 186 12 338 50 000 - 99 999 NOK 162 2 269 168 2 342 100 000 - 249 000 NOK 260 1 689 296 1 932 250 000 - 499 999 186 537 219 635 500 000 - 999 999 NOK 147 217 176 257 1 000 000 NOK or more 241 111 279 134 1The statistics are based on data from tax statistics for personal taxpayers. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 17 November 2023.
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.
Gross income
Total wages and salaries pesnsins, entrepreneurial income and proeprty income.
Personal wages and salaries
Comprise payments in cash and in kind, taxable sick pay and unemployment benefit.
Pensions
Cover all benefit paid by social security and private pension and life insurance benefit.
Entrepreneurial income
A result of activities of a self-employed person, and is estimated from profit and loss account and balance sheet. The entrepreneurial income is transferred to the tax return and is included in the calculation of ordinary income.
Entrepreneurial income from agriculture
This is positive entrepreneurial income from agriculture according to tax return. Including 2011, entrepreneurial social security benefits in agriculture,forestry and fishery are included. As from 2012 social security benefits from primary industry are include in total entreprenurial income. Deductions such as membership payments to industry organisations, the year's entrepreneurial deficit, interest on debt and a separate agricultural deduction are not deducted.
Entreprenurial income from forestry
This is positive entrepreneurial income from forestry according to tax return. In addition, entrepreneurial income from forestry also comprises sickness benefit for persons without entreprenurail income in agriculture and fisheries.
Other income
Consist mainly of interest income, dividends, realised capital gains, rent and other income from property.
Name: Forest owners' income
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
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The statistics are published annually. It usually takes about 70 weeks from the end of the year until the figures are published.
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 the statistics is to provide an overview of personal forest owners income, dept and property. The statistics also provide information on age, sex, income and education of forest owners.
Statistics on forest owners income based on sample surveys were published in the 1990's and after The sample survey of forestry 2004.
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 statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
Statistics on the farmers' income and property are provided yearly. These statistics comprise natural persons operating agricultural holdings.
Statistics Norway also presents income statistics for all self-employed persons .
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 built on properties in the Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority with personal owner and at least 25 decares of productive forest area. Information about the owners came from the Land Register/Cadastre owned by The Norwegian Mapping Authority.
As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area are based on new cartographic data analysis and data on owners and properties from the cadastre (Land Register) in combination with data from the Farm Register.
In the statistics on personal forest owners, the forest owners' productive forest areas in Norway are aggregated, independent of municipality borders. Statistics on incomes are based on the forest owners' municipality for tax purposes. Other individual statistics on personal forest owners are based on the municipality where the forest owners live.
Statistics on average incomes, debt, gross property and assessed taxes are published for personal forest owners with positive self-employment income from forestry. Married couples and registered partners / cohabitants who jointly operate the forest property, may share the taxable entrepreneurial income. Statistics are therefor also made on average incomes, debt, gross property and assessed taxes for forest owners and their spouses, registered partners and cohabitants.
The statistics are derived from existing administrative data files.
The Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority served until 2010 as the backbone of the statistics and information about the owners came from the Land register. As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area are based on new cartographic data analysis and data on owners and properties from the Cadastre in combination with data from the Farm Register.
More information about the personal forest owners comes from the Central Population Register, the Register on Personal Tax Returns and the Register on Tax Assessment for Personal Taxpayers.
The statistics are derived from the whole population of personal forest owners.
The statistics are based on existing administrative registers and are based on linked data files that were edited separately when established. Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data., and there are not any editing on the linked data.
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.
To ensure confidentiality, the suppression method is used in these statistics.
In the period 2007-2010, the Farm register has been updated and improved. The improvement has resulted in 3 000-4 000 more forest properties.
As from 2011, the number of forest properties and productive forest area are based on new cartographic data analysis and data on owners and properties from the cadastre (Land Register) in combination with data from the Farm Register. This resultet in more than 10 000 new forest properties. Most of them have had minor forestry activity.
Statistics on the forest owners' income based on sample surveys were published in the 1990's and in the Sample survey of forestry 2004. As from 2005, statistics on the forest owners' income based on registers have been published annaully.
The most important source of error is that taxpayers may fill in incorrect information on income, deductions, property or debt in the personal tax return or place amounts under wrong items. In most cases this will be detected and corrected by the local tax offices. Nevertheless, errors that do not influence the assessment of taxes may be ignored. Furthermore, errors may also originate during the scanning of the tax return forms, despite of the fact that controls are executed.
Another concern is the quality of the registers. The productive forest area of properties or the property borders are sometimes missing or erroneous. Furthermore, errors may arise when data are entered into the various administrative registers.
With regard to co-operative ownership, the statistics on forest owners comprise only the reference owner. Self-employment income from forestry for the remaining personal owners in the co-operative is not included. Analysis from 2011 show that entrepreneurial income from forests for these owners were approximately 0,4 per cent of the total entrepreneural income from forestry. In total, 3-4 per cent of the self-employment income from forestry is missing.
In reality, the number of personal forest owners with entrepreneurial income from forestry is higher than in these statistics show, because only the reference owner in a co-ownership is included here. Some personal forest owners are deceased and no new owner has been registered, some live abroad or information is missing for other reasons. These owners amount to 3-4 per cent of the personal forest owners and are excluded from the statistics on incomes.