Overview
This booklet contains a summary of statistics about woodland and forestry and includes sections on woodland area, timber and wood products, imports and exports, economics, employment, woodland visits, international comparisons and the environment. The complete statistics for 2024, are available from Forestry Statistics.
This year’s edition of the booklet was published on Thursday 26 September 2024. A PDF is available to download from this page and printed copies are available to order using the details below.
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Forestry Facts and Figures 2024: correction
On Thursday 26 September 2024 we published this year’s summary of forestry statistics, Forestry Facts and Figures 2024. The statistics are compiled by Forest Research on behalf of the forestry authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and provide information on woodland area and cover, timber and wood products, imports and exports to economics, employment, woodland visits and the environment.
Since publication, we have updated the figure provided for percentage of land area in the UK covered by woodland. The statistic, published in the Forestry Facts and Figures booklet, and found in Chapter 1 Woodland Area and Planting ‘Key Findings’ of the full set of statistics, has been amended due to a typographic error. As of March 2024, woodland area in the UK represents 13.5% of total land area in the UK. We have also made further changes to reported area sub-totals related to private sector conifer woodland area in England. The total hectares of woodland in the UK is 3,279,000.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.