Wood production and consumption in
Switzerland

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Wood Production, Consumption, Imports, and Exports for Switzerland





Switzerland : Wood Production, Consumption, Imports, and Exports figures.

Woodfuel (�000 cubic meters):
    Production: 5,900
    Imports: 7
    Exports: 35
    Consumption: 5,872

Industrial roundwood (�000 cubic meters):
    Production: 3,500
    Imports: 374
    Exports: 1,970
    Consumption: 1,904

Sawnwood (�000 cubic meters):
    Production: 1,420
    Imports: 409
    Exports: 197
    Consumption: 1,632

Wood-based panels (�000 cubic meters):
    Production: 716
    Imports: 491
    Exports: 665
    Consumption: 542

Pulp for paper (�000 tonnes):
    Production: 280
    Imports: 464
    Exports: 125
    Consumption: 619

Pulp for paper (�000 tonnes):
    Production: 1,805
    Imports: 1,005
    Exports: 1,284
    Consumption: 1,526
Deforestation rates in Switzerland

deforestation index

All figures come from FAO State of the World's Forests 2005

Sources used include:
  • FAO. 2001. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 � main report. FAO Forestry Paper No. 140. Rome (available at www.fao.org/forestry/fo/fra/main/index.jsp).
  • FAO. 2004. FAOSTAT statistical database. Rome (available at apps.fao.org/faostat/collections). United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
  • (ECE)/FAO. 2000. Forest resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand (industrialized temperate/boreal countries). New York,
  • USA, and Geneva, Switzerland, UN. World Bank. 2004. World Development Indicators 2004.


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