SWEDEN

Price for sawn timber below last year's level

Article by Günther Jauk, translated by Susanne Höfler | 28.11.2019 - 08:25

The Swedish lumber price index saw yet another decline in October.

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In October, Sweden's lumber price index continued its downswing that started in February. With 106.2% (base 100% = 2015), the index lost another 0.9 points compared to September and -12.1 points year-on-year.

However, looking at the comparison periods of 2017 and 2016, the value gained 6.8 and 4 points respectively. Data surveyed by Statistics Sweden.

The entire time series back to 1990 as well as numerous other interesting time series can be found in Datacube.

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