2016 - Wood removals - Forest Research

A total of 3.7 billion m³ underbark of wood was removed from global forests in 2014, of which around one half (50%) was for use as woodfuel and the remainder was industrial roundwood (for use by wood processors) (Table 9.4).

North & Central America and Europe together accounted for around three fifths (59%) of all industrial roundwood removals in 2014. Globally, removals of industrial roundwood increased by 8% between 2010 and 2014, resulting from increases in all regions.

Three quarters of woodfuel removals in 2014 took place in Asia and Africa. Globally, removals of woodfuel increased by 2% between 2010 and 2014.

Table 9.4 Wood removals by region, 1990-2014
Region	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2014
million m³ underbark
Industrial roundwood
Europe
UK	6	7	8	8	8	9
EU-28¹	317	294	342	371	339	347
Total Europe	517	405	519	569	532	572
Africa	61	67	70	74	71	72
Asia	268	276	269	282	361	382
North and Central America	595	603	632	635	485	517
Oceania	34	41	47	50	57	64
South America	110	135	147	176	198	231
World	1 585	1 526	1 684	1 786	1 703	1 837
Woodfuel
Europe
UK	0	0	0	0	1	2
EU-28¹	68	67	70	76	89	101
Total Europe	138	107	94	107	127	150
Africa	445	513	542	589	631	657
Asia	897	849	808	792	766	737
North and Central America	162	145	129	130	129	133
Oceania	9	11	13	11	11	11
South America	162	173	185	169	162	177
World	1 814	1 798	1 771	1 799	1 825	1 864
Total roundwood
Europe
UK	6	8	8	9	10	11
EU-28¹	385	361	411	448	428	448
Total Europe	655	512	612	676	659	722
Africa	506	580	613	663	702	728
Asia	1 166	1 125	1 076	1 074	1 127	1 119
North and Central America	757	748	761	765	613	649
Oceania	43	51	60	61	68	74
South America	272	308	332	345	359	408
World	3 399	3 325	3 455	3 585	3 528	3 700

Source: FAO.

Notes:

1. Cyprus is included in EU-28 total but is part of FAO’s Asia region.

These figures are outside the scope of National Statistics

Figure 9.5 Wood removals by region, 2014

Source: FAO.

These figures are outside the scope of National Statistics

2016 – Wood removals

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