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. More details are described under "Facts about the survey" here

Facts about the survey

Quarterly roundwood prices

The roundwood prices on delivery timber increased for both sawlog and pulpwood during the fourth quarter of 2024 in comparison with the third quarter of 2024. The price increased in all regions.

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.