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VII.
FORESTRY.
1. the forests.
Of the 41 million hectares (101 million acres) which Sweden occupies,
inland seas not included, 21 million hectares (52 million acres) are at
present considered to be covered with wood; consequently fully 50 per
cent., or more than half. Of all the countries in Europe only
Finland seems to have a somewhat greater part of the ground wooded
than Sweden. The average figure for the entire Europe is 33 per cent,
but for West Europe only 25 per cent.
For each hundred of its inhabitants Europe has on an average
about 80 hectares of wood. West Europe has only 40; the figure for
Sweden is folly 400. Also in this case Sweden’s figure is the highest
in Europe next to Finland’s. A comparison between Sweden and some
other countries from this point of view is given in the diagram on
page 620.
How Sweden’s ground is divided between common and private
property can not be stated, as no estimation has ever been made
concerning the area of field and meadow which belong to the
Crown-domains, and partly not even of the outfields. As to the outfields, that
is the whole land-area counting off the arable land and natural meadows,
an approximate partition can still be made, which for 1900 turns out
in the following way, in hectares 1:
Below the line Above the line Total
of coniferous plants, of coniferous plants.
Belonging to the State»............... 7,071,010 6,675,224 18,746,234
• » hundreds k parishes... 640,477 — 640,477
• private persons......... 21,714,731_—_21,714,731
Total 29,426,218 6,675,224 36,101,442
These figures, however, are not very reliable (see note to the Table),
and can only give an approximate idea of the case. In the figures for
the public forests the unreclaimable land (not wooded) may as a rule
have been counted in, still not always.
1 An hectare = 2 47 acres. — ’ Under this head are included also the woods of
ecclesiastical benefices and public institutions, part of which do not belong to the State.
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