Based on a comparison of 120 countries in 2018, China ranked the highest in production of wood-based panels with 203,432,000 '000 cbm followed by USA and Russia. On the other end of the scale was Cyprus with 7.00 '000 cbm, Moldova with 466 '000 cbm and Mongolia with 1,000 '000 cbm.
Total production of wood-based panels reached 407,950,296 '000 cbm in 2018 in the World according to Faostat. This is 0.961 % more than in the previous year and 35.9 % more than 10 years ago.
Historically, total production of wood-based panels reached an all time high of 407,950,296 '000 cbm in 2018 and an all time low of 25,134,700 '000 cbm in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 5.01 % since 1961.
The top ranked country, China, accounted for 49.9 % of production of wood-based panels in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 62.8 % share while the ten largest countries some 80.0 % in 2018.
Data for more countries are available at Production of Wood-Based Panels indicator page.
| Production of Wood-Based Panels | Unit | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Belarus | '000 cbm | 780,800 | 1,050,300 | 1,724,800 | 2,599,610 | 3,454,546 | ||||||||||||||||
| Brazil | '000 cbm | 10,069,000 | 10,588,000 | 10,413,000 | 9,872,000 | 10,315,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Canada | '000 cbm | 10,130,000 | 10,651,433 | 11,328,000 | 11,779,000 | 12,012,983 | ||||||||||||||||
| China | '000 cbm | 145,953,000 | 173,721,000 | 187,903,000 | 197,343,000 | 208,177,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| France | '000 cbm | 5,667,535 | 5,416,000 | 5,360,000 | 5,391,484 | 5,523,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | '000 cbm | 12,021,593 | 12,059,849 | 12,168,530 | 12,131,924 | 12,530,001 | ||||||||||||||||
| Indonesia | '000 cbm | 5,750,000 | 4,396,000 | 4,493,000 | 4,593,000 | 4,643,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Japan | '000 cbm | 4,316,000 | 4,669,000 | 4,737,800 | 4,619,700 | 4,959,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Poland | '000 cbm | 8,439,036 | 8,953,962 | 9,147,159 | 9,685,690 | 10,401,133 | ||||||||||||||||
| Romania | '000 cbm | 3,874,000 | 4,810,000 | 4,780,946 | 4,991,171 | 5,420,903 | ||||||||||||||||
| Russia | '000 cbm | 12,194,415 | 12,051,000 | 12,496,289 | 13,537,279 | 14,161,050 | ||||||||||||||||
| Spain | '000 cbm | 2,559,233 | 2,972,828 | 3,597,640 | 3,860,433 | 3,762,916 | ||||||||||||||||
| Thailand | '000 cbm | 5,214,900 | 5,844,900 | 5,844,900 | 6,144,900 | 6,544,900 | ||||||||||||||||
| Turkey | '000 cbm | 7,981,000 | 8,716,000 | 9,550,000 | 9,344,000 | 9,486,000 | ||||||||||||||||
| USA | '000 cbm | 31,059,000 | 33,062,390 | 35,059,540 | 35,258,505 | 35,956,730 |
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