Prices on roundwood
The statistics is published by Swedish Forest Agency, responsible authority for official statistics on production in forestry. The statistics covers average prices for delivery logs.
The prices are volume-weighted average prices for delivery timber and refer to current prices where inflation has not been taken into account. Delivery timber means that the forest owner, with the help of employees or contractors, delivers the wood by the road side.
The base of the statistics is measured quantities and prices of roundwood of delivery timber in Biometrias so called Viol-system. In the system all measurements are gathered and processed. Biometria calculates a price for the quantity of roundwood measured using pricelists reported by the companies.
The selection criteria for these statistics are:
- Only the original purchase is conducted, i.e. the transaction between forest owners and initial purchaser.
- Only prices of delivery timber are included, which represent less than 10 percent of total volume.
- All quality classes are included, with the exception of refused logs.
The stated quantities are based on measurement at industry. Among the methods used are measurement of individual logs, measurement of stacked logs and random sampling. - The figures on prices refer to the basic price including additions and deductions.
- From 2015 only purchases above 100 SEK/m3s ub are included.
- LKF-code (county/municipality/parish) are used to sort the purchases by regions.
- The survey relies on a specific choice of assortments and calculations by those.
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Quarterly roundwood prices
The roundwood prices increased for both sawlog and pulpwood during the first quarter of 2025 in comparison with the fourth quarter of 2024. The sawlog price increased by 11 percent and pulpwood by 5 percent.
The unit SEK/m3s ub refers to SEK per cubic meters solid volume under bark.
The unit SEK/m3s ub refers to SEK per cubic meters solid volume under bark.
Roundwood prices 2024
In 2024 the roundwood price on sawlogs increased by 30 percent and the prices on pulpwood by 18 percent in comparison to 2023.
Roundwood price on sawlogs
In comparison to 2023 the price on sawlogs in Svealand rose by 34 percent and the price on sawlogs in Norra Norrland rose by 12 percent. The price refers to annual average prices for sawlogs of pine and spruce.
Roundwood price on pulpwood
The average price for pulpwood of coniferous and broad-leaved trees increased by 18 percent in 2024 compared to 2023. Pulpwood prices rose most in Götaland, with a 19 percent increase, and least in Norra Norrland, with a 10 percent increase. The roundwood price on pulpwood refers to a volume weighted average for delivery timber.
Minor break in the time series after 2021 due to changed regional division and from 2024 regarding expansion of pulpwood.
Volumes
The harvested volumes forming the basis for the statistics represents timber volumes sold as delivery timber. These volumes have decreased by more than half over the past 20 years, both for sawlogs and pulpwood. Delivery timber constitutes a small share of the total timber sales. The total volume of sawlogs and pulpwood in the 2024 statistics amounted to just over 2 million cubic meters solid volume under bark of which 49 percent were roundwood of pulpwood and 51 percent were roundwood of sawlogs.
An explanation to the decrease in volume can be that the share of delivery timber has decreased in comparison to other types of purchase. Another explanation is that what is calculated in the system, the base of the statistics, has changed.
In the figure below, it is shown how the volume of sawlogs increased after the storm Gudrun in 2005 and the storm Per in 2007. The volume of roundwood of pulpwood did not increase in the same way as the volume of sawlogs in these years.
Minor break in the time series after 2021 due to changed regional division and from 2024 regarding expansion of pulpwood.