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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 19 Mar 2025

Primary woody biomass

Bioeconomy

All roundwood felled or otherwise harvested and removed. It comprises all wood obtained from removals, i.e., the quantities removed from forests and from trees outside the forest, including wood recovered due to natural mortality and from felling and logging. It includes all wood removed with or without bark, including wood removed in its round form, or split, roughly squared or in other form, e.g., branches, roots, stumps and burls (where these are harvested) and wood that is roughly shaped or pointed.

Eurostat, FAO, ITTO, and UNECE. 2021. “Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire Definitions.”

Source category: International Organisation