Clusterstatistics

Background and Objective

When regarding separately the relevance of German forestry for the whole economy is rather negligible. Yet, numerous subsequent industries are dependent on the allocation of raw wood. All industries based on wood and forest products constitutes the forestry and timber cluster. The studies carried out for Germany and German Federal States revealed not only the importance of wood based industries but also stimulated the development of new methods of how the structure of the cluster can be analysed and how the information gained can be made available for the politicians and policy makers.

Approach

Using data on turnover, employment and the number of enterprises annual reports on forestry and wood industry are prepared and published. These reports include not only text describing the main results but also tables and compilations containing the results for the whole federal territory as well as for the federal states. 

Data and Methods

Our evaluations are based on statistics gathered by the Federal Statistical Office and by the Employment Agency.

Preliminary Results

The structural parameters of the forestry and wood industry cluster were analyzed for the period 2000 to 2017 at federal as well as at state level. The German wood based industry has generated a turnover of more than 184.0 billion euros in 2017. It comprised 121,900 enterprises and 1,081,015 employees. The highest contributions to these results came from publishing and printing sector (29.0%) followed by paper and pulp industry (23.7%). The added value along all branches of the cluster totalled in 2017 to 57.2 billion euros.