TRENDS AND CURRENT STATUS OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE FORESTRY SECTOR TO NATIONAL ECONOMIES

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A paper prepared for the FAO work-programme component
on financing sustainable forest management

Working paper: FSFM/ACC/07

Arvydas Lebedys

Consultant (Forest Economics and Statistics)

Forest Products and Economics Division, Rome

December 2004

© FAO 2004

ABSTRACT and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope and objectives of the study

1.2 Limitations of the study

1.3 Structure of the report

2 DATA SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY

2.1 Terminology, definitions and measurement units

2.1.1 Definition of the forestry sector

2.1.2 Definition and measurement of employment, value-added and trade

2.1.3 Geographical regions

2.2 Data sources

2.3 Data coverage

2.3.1 Forestry sector employment statistics

2.3.2 Statistics for value-added in the forestry sector

2.4 Methodology for checking and estimating missing data

3 ANALYSIS OF TRENDS AND CURRENT STATUS

3.1 Employment in the forestry sector

3.1.1 Trends in total employment

3.1.2 Trends in labour productivity

3.1.3 Trends in the forestry sector’s contribution to employment

3.1.4 Potential underestimation of employment

3.2 Value-added in the forestry sector

3.2.1 Trends in total value-added

3.2.2 Trends in value-added by sub-sector

3.2.3 Trends in value-added per unit of output

3.2.4 Trends in value-added per employee

3.2.5 Trends in the forestry sector’s contribution to GDP

3.2.6 Potential underestimation

3.3 Forest products trade

3.3.1 Trends in the share of forest products in total merchandise exports

3.3.2 Trends in the share of forest products in total merchandise imports

3.3.3 Potential underestimation

4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

5 REFERENCES

ANNEX 1 DATA TABLES

ANNEX 2 COUNTRY RELATED REFERENCES

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 Recent trends in forestry sector employment by sub-sector

Figure 2 Recent trends in forestry sector employment by region

Figure 3 Recent trends in labour productivity in (formal) forestry activities by region

Figure 4 Recent trends in labour productivity in the wood industry by region

Figure 5 Recent trends in labour productivity in the pulp and paper industry by region

Figure 6 Recent trends in the forestry sector’s contribution to employment by region

Figure 7 Possible mis-classification in forestry employment statistics: a comparison of labour productivity in Canada and the United States of America

Figure 8 Recent trends in gross value-added in the forestry sector by sub-sector

Figure 9 Recent trends in real export prices and gross value-added at the global level for the wood industry and pulp and paper industry

Figure 10 Recent trends in gross value-added in the forestry sector by region

Figure 11 Recent trends in value-added in (formal) forestry activities by region

Figure 12 Recent trends in value-added in the wood industry by region

Figure 13 Recent trends in value-added in the pulp and paper industry by region

Figure 14 Recent trends in value-added per unit of output in (formal) forestry activities by region

Figure 15 Recent trends in value-added per unit of output in the wood industry by region

Figure 16 Recent trends in value-added per unit of output in the pulp and paper industry by region

Figure 17 Recent trends in value-added per employee in (formal) forestry activities by region

Figure 18 Recent trends in value-added per employee in the wood industry by region

Figure 19 Recent trends in value-added per employee in the pulp and paper industry by region

Figure 20 Recent trends in the forestry sector’s contribution to GDP by region

Figure 21 Recent trends in the share of forest products in total merchandise exports by region

Figure 22 Recent trends in the share of products from the forestry sub-sector in total merchandise exports by region

Figure 23 Recent trends in the share of wood industry products in total merchandise exports by region

Figure 24 Recent trends in the share of pulp and paper industry products in total merchandise exports by region

Figure 25 Recent trends in the share of forest products in total merchandise imports by region

Figure 26 Recent trends in the share of products from the forestry sub-sector in total merchandise imports by region

Figure 27 Recent trends in the share of wood industry products in total merchandise imports by region

Figure 28 Recent trends in the share of pulp and paper industry products in total merchandise imports by region

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 Total number of official employment statistics collected for each year

Table 2 Average number of employment statistics collected for each year (over the period 1990 to 2000) by region

Table 3 Total number of official value-added statistics collected for each year

Table 4 Average number of value-added statistics collected for each year (over the period 1990 to 2000) by region

Table 5 Summary of the trends and current status of the total forestry sector employment, value-added and exports by region

Table 6 Summary of the trends and current status of the contribution of the forestry sector to employment, GDP and total merchandise exports by region

LIST OF BOXES

Box 1 The location of forest dependent activities in the ISIC Revision 3.0

Box 2 The definition of “forestry, logging and related service activities” given in ISIC Revision 3.0

Box 3 The calculation of value-added and national income accounting

Box 4 Employment in the production of non-wood forest products in Thailand

Box 5 Some examples of accounting for informal forestry activities in national income accounts

Box 6 Lithuania – deliveries of wood products from the former-USSR