What we count
Total roundwood removals, including industrial roundwood and wood used as fuel.
Roundwood removals this year
How much roundwood has been removed worldwide this year, what the measure includes and how it relates to FAO's 2024 data.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
262,491,781paper and paperboard produced this year
$ 9,742,191,902public healthcare spending today
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What lies behind this number
Total roundwood removals, including industrial roundwood and wood used as fuel.
How the source derives it
FAO collects national production and trade statistics for forest products in FAOSTAT.
What one number cannot show
The total does not separate legal from illegal harvesting and does not itself measure sustainability.
Source value
The calculation uses the annual value published by FAOSTAT Forest Products 2024 for 2024. It is the latest value published by this source.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year.
Annual value3,905,000,000m³
- Period
- 2024
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- FAOSTAT Forest Products 2024
How the number is calculated
We distribute the latest published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value3,905,000,0002024 · m³
Average per day10,691,527even annual distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
FAOSTAT Forest Products 2024 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2024.
Elapsed share
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since the start of the year. The counter restarts at the beginning of the next calendar year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from FAOSTAT Forest Products 2024 and refers to 2024. We use it because it is the latest value published by this source. FAO collects national production and trade statistics for forest products in FAOSTAT.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- FAOSTAT Forest Products 2024
- Data period
- 2024
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation