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    • Australian forest and wood products statistics
    • Forest economic research
      • Australian wood volumes analysis
      • A framework for developing medium term projections of traded wood products
      • Economic potential for new plantation establishment in Australia
      • Future opportunities for using forest and sawmill residues in Australia
      • Illegal logging regulation: analysis of regulated importers by business size
      • Productivity and efficiency of the Australian sawmilling industry
      • Responsiveness of demand for structural pine to changes in timber and steel prices
      • Short-term forecasts of selected wood product sales volume: Method and assumptions
      • Upscaling the Australian softwood sawmill industry
    • Australian plantation statistics update
    • Plantation and log supply
    • National wood processing survey

Australian forest and wood products statistics

Overview

ABARES Australian forest and wood products statistics (AFWPS) is a collection of data on key indicators of activity in the Australian forest and wood products sector.

AFWPS has two components - a Production focussed report, and a Trade focussed report.

As a whole, AFWPS is supported by summary tables in Excel format and a Power BI data visualisation that provides users with an interactive dashboard to interrogate the data.

The current edition of AFWPS covers:

  • Trade to 2023-24
  • Production to 2022-23

To access previous editions click the download links below in the Production to 2022-23 dropdown.

Time series charts are expressed in real terms (adjusted for inflation).

Trade to 2023-24 overview report

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Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Overview report (PDF 569 KB)
Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Overview report (DOCX 1.32 MB)

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2023-24 trade

 Unit2023–24% change from 2022–23a
Trade
Total value of imported wood products$ billion

6.5

-5 (-9.1)

Total value of exported wood products$ billion

2.7

-2 (5.9)

Total merchandise trade$ billion

9.2

-4 (-8.2)

2023-24 dwelling commencements

 Unit 2023-24% change from 2022–23 
Dwelling commencements
House commencements'00099-10.1
Other residential commencements'00059-6.0
Total dwelling commencements'000158-8.8

a Values in brackets are in real terms (2023-24 dollars) to account for inflation.

Production to 2022-23 overview report

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Production to 2022-23 – AFWPS – Overview report (PDF 1.02 MB)
Production to 2022-23 – AFWPS – Overview report (DOCX 1.30 MB)

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2022-23 volume and value of logs harvested

 Unit 2022–23%change from 2021–22 a
Volume of logs harvested
Commercial plantation log harvestmillion cubic metres22.50.0
Hardwood log harvestmillion cubic metres8.510.3
Softwood log harvestmillion cubic metres14.0-5.4
Native forest log harvestmillion cubic metres2.5-29.2
Total logs harvestedmillion cubic metres25.0-3.9
Value of logs harvested
Commercial plantation-logs harvested$ million2,14712.2 (4.9)
Hardwood log harvest$ million80012.9 (5.6)
Softwood log harvest$ million1,34811.8 (4.5)
Native forest-logs harvested b$ million296-20.4 (-25.5)
Total value of logs harvested$ billion2.4436.9 (-0.1)

2022-23 plantation area

 Unit 2022–23%change from 2021–22 
Plantation area
Hardwood plantations’000 hectares678-1.5
Softwood plantations’000 hectares1,0080.2
Total plantation area c’000 hectares1,708-0.4

a Values in brackets are in real terms (2022-23 dollars) to account for inflation.
b Includes native cypress logs.
c Total includes plantations where type in unknown.

 

This infographic shows graphs for imports, exports and trade summary statistics. For further details refer to the Trade to 2023-24 report. It also shows graphs for plantation area, plantation establishment, native hardwood production, softwood production, plantation hardwood production and production summary statistics. For further details refer to the Production to 2022-23 report.

Data visualisation

Note: The reported trade data can be subject to ABS confidentiality restrictions, such as hardwood woodchips since October 2020. The confidentiality restrictions can have implications for country and national level reporting. For additional details see International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia.

Source: ABARES

This Power BI dashboard may not meet accessibility requirements. For information about the contents of these dashboards contact ABARES.

Downloads

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Overview report - PDF [1.02 MB]
Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Overview report - MS Word [1.32 MB]

Production to 2022-23 – AFWPS – Overview report – PDF [1.02 MB]
Production to 2022-23 – AFWPS – Overview report – MS Word [1.30 MB]

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Downloads

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Infographic – PDF [893 KB]

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Data tables MS Excel [501 KB]

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Dashboard data tables – MS Excel [229 KB]

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Dashboard data tables – Exports from 1988–89 to 2023–24 – Zip of CSV format [9.3 MB]

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Dashboard data tables – Imports from 1988–89 to 2004–05 – Zip of CSV format [17.1 MB]

Trade to 2023-24 – AFWPS – Dashboard data tables – Imports from 2005–06 to 2023–24 – Zip of CSV format [20.8 MB]

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For historic and archived versions of the Australian Forest and Wood Product Statistics report, please use the ABARES Publications Library.

In March 2022 ABARES updated the classifications used to report Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry export statistics. These changes will improve the quality of information available to users of trade statistics. These changes may result in changes to historical time series for trade statistics due to the movement of trade items between categories, or the addition of new items. A detailed explanation of ABARES classification of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry statistics is available, along with a concordance to the previous definition. This classification is based on the Australian Harmonised Export Commodity Classification.

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