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Which Country Produces the Most Wood Pulp?

Wood Pulp Production (kt), 2020 or latest
Paper, Pulp & Forestry | March 10, 2022
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Based on a comparison of 58 countries in 2020, USA ranked the highest in wood pulp production with 50,871,015 kt followed by Brazil and Canada. On the other end of the scale was Sri Lanka with 2,600 kt, Denmark with 4,830 kt and Uzbekistan with 7,400 kt.

Total wood pulp production reached 186,435,921 kt in 2020 in the World according to Faostat. This is 1.88 % less than in the previous year and 7.51 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total wood pulp production reached an all time high of 192,514,967 kt in 2018 and an all time low of 61,548,400 kt in 1961. The average annual growth amounted to 1.90 % since 1961.

The top ranked country, USA, accounted for 27.3 % of wood pulp production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 47.1 % share while the ten largest countries some 83.0 % in 2020.

Data for more countries are available at Wood Pulp Production indicator page.

Wood Pulp Production Unit 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Austria kt 1,943,782 1,812,471 2,116,306 2,056,089 2,083,266
Brazil kt 16,845,000 17,813,000 19,409,000 20,187,000 21,695,000
Canada kt 17,277,000 17,180,000 17,037,000 16,837,000 16,790,000
Chile kt 5,208,800 5,116,600 5,145,400 5,192,500 5,362,800
China kt 10,974,000 11,014,000 11,781,000 12,199,000 13,272,000
Finland kt 10,471,386 10,450,000 10,920,000 11,098,000 12,060,000
Germany kt 2,597,000 2,553,000 2,485,067 2,432,000 2,459,000
India kt 3,330,300 3,470,300 3,361,800 3,361,800 3,361,800
Indonesia kt 6,672,000 7,022,000 7,331,953 7,848,270 8,268,335
Japan kt 9,066,000 8,875,000 8,809,000 8,921,000 8,806,000
Portugal kt 2,625,900 2,660,900 2,729,100 2,752,900 2,772,900
Russia kt 7,532,000 8,074,186 8,352,000 8,292,000 8,579,000
Sweden kt 11,531,025 11,621,999 11,824,011 12,157,000 11,995,000
USA kt 50,106,640 49,368,210 49,534,430 49,247,516 53,233,456
Uruguay kt 1,910,000 2,412,000 2,604,326 2,644,000 2,543,345

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