UK-Grown Timber Production and Primary Processing Statistics for 2019

Forestry Statistics 2019 provides UK-wide data on the production of timber from woodland and its primary processing. The dataset includes statistics on woodland area, planting, trade, carbon, environment, social factors, employment, and finance, with breakdowns for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland where possible. It was released by the Forestry Commission on 26 September 2019.

Use Cases

• Modeling timber supply and demand based on production and trade statistics.
• Analyzing regional forestry employment trends based on national and country-level data.
• Assessing environmental and carbon impacts of UK forestry based on included environmental and carbon statistics.

Strengths

• Published as official National Statistics by the Forestry Commission under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
• Provides geographic breakdowns for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland where possible.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Commission

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Data covers the 2019 reporting period; last platform update was 2026-06-29.

Geography

United Kingdom, with sub-national data for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland