Australian forest and wood products statistics

March and June quarters 2020

About this report

ABARES Australian forest and wood products statistics (AFWPS) is a compendium of data on key indicators of activity in the Australian forest and wood products sector, such as:

commercial plantation areas by type and jurisdiction
volume and value of logs harvested by type and jurisdiction
production and trade of wood products
socio-economic variables relevant to the forest sector

Data visualisation

Source: ABARES

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Scope and coverage

The AFWPS datasets include a number of long time series including as far back as 1939 for commercial plantations, as well as comprehensive coverage of current period data for the entire industry.

The data is represented at the state, national and international scale for forestry imports and exports.

For the gross value of production (GVP) value and volume data, the Australian Capital Territory’s data is combined with New South Wales. Northern Territory data is combined with Western Australia for confidentiality.

The list of regions covered are outlined in Table 1 below for domestic and international. The majority of the datasets are not modelled or estimated by ABARES, except for gross roundwood equivalent consumption and sawnwood production. In some instances, it may have been necessary to estimate incomplete data. Where this estimation has occurred, this will be reported in the notes section of the published dataset. The notes section also provides a description of each dataset and its limitations

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Table 1 List of Domestic regions

Dataset	NSW	VIC	QLD	SA	WA	TAS	NT	ACT	Australia	International
Native Forest	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Production									Yes
Census employment									Yes
Plantations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dwelling units commenced									Yes
Apparent consumption of wood products									Yes
Value and volume of logs harvested	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gross roundwood equivalent consumption									Yes
Industry sales									Yes
Industry value added									Yes
Sawnwood production	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Imports										Yes
Exports										Yes

Table 2 List of ABS forestry data

Dataset	Data detail	Source
Industry sales	By industry, state, time series	ABS, Australian Industry, cat. no. 8155.0, Canberra; ABS, Experimental Estimates for the Manufacturing Industry, various years, cat. no. 8159.0, Canberra.
Industry value added	By industry, time series
Wages and salaries	By industry, time series
Census Employment	By industry, time series	ABS, Census of Population and Housing, 2006, 2011, 2016, Canberra.
Dwellings Commenced	By state, time series	ABS, Building Activity, Australia, cat. no. 8752.0, Canberra.
Apparent Consumption	By product, time series	ABARES; state and territory forest services; forest industry associations; private industry; ABS, Canberra.
Recovered Paper	By product, trade, time series	ABARES; ABS, Information Consultancy Services, 2007, cat. no. 9920.0, Canberra.