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Sweden forests map
Map of Sweden forests. Sweden forests map (Northern Europe - Europe) to print. Sweden forests map (Northern Europe - Europe) to download. Sweden is one of the world most heavily forested countries, with forests covering some 70% of the land area. Around 55% of the land area consists of productive forestry land, for a total of 22.7 million hectares (56.1 million acres) as its shown in Sweden forests map. The percentage has only varied between 55.5% and 58.1 since the first National Forestry Inventory of 1923–29. Virtually all of Sweden forests are regrowth; virgin forests cover 788,000 hectares (1,947,000 acres) and are almost exclusively found in national parks and nature reserves. The growing stock is estimated at 3 billion cu m (106 billion cu ft). The annual growth amounts to about 101 million cu m (3.5 billion cu ft).
About half of the total forest area in Sweden is owned by private persons and 30% by private corporations and rural communes. The government owns most of the remaining 20% of forests as its mentioned in Sweden forests map, but they are located, for the most part, in the north, where climatic conditions slow the trees growth. Forestry and farming are interdependent everywhere except in the most fertile plains; in northern Sweden, almost one of every two men works in the woods for at least part of the winter. Both the number of workers and the productivity of those who stayed on declined in the late 1970s. Since the early 1970s, the number of employees in the forestry sector has fallen by over 40%.