Statistics about

Forest roads

The statistics gives an overview of kilometres of forest roads that are finished and approved during the report year, and are based on data from the Norwegian Agriculture Agency and their database on the Forest Trust Fund.

Updated: 24 April 2024

Next update: 24 April 2025

Selected figures from this statistics

Table 1Kilometres of forest roads finished and approved

Kilometres of forest roads finished and approved¹
	2023	2022 - 2023	2013 - 2023
	Km	Change in per cent
Whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries
New roads	103	-6.4	25.6
Roads rebuilt	188	-19.3	-40.1

Winter roads for lorries and roads for tractors
New roads	97	-17.1	-50.3
Roads rebuilt	42	23.5	-27.6
¹Data on roads built without public subsidies are however somewhat incomplete. The data cover roads that are finished and approved during the report year.

Explanation of symbols

Source

StatBank source table 03772

StatBank source table 03773

Table 2Forest roads finished and approved

Forest roads finished and approved
	Number of roads	Length of roads newly completed (km)	Length of roads rebuilt (km)	Number of roads	Length of roads, newly completed (km)	Length of roads rebuilt (km)
	Whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries			Winter roads for lorries and roads for tractors
2013	441	82	314	479	195	58
2014	438	70	364	436	175	69
2015	534	105	335	424	165	72
2016	534	115	412	425	156	68
2017	487	103	388	441	172	51
2018	492	94	283	389	157	34
2019	550	130	360	419	137	60
2020	487	86	333	385	150	57
2021	435	107	232	279	102	43
2022	431	110	233	358	117	34
2023	387	103	188	269	97	42

2023
Oslo and Viken (2020-2023)	71	19	33	22	7	9
Innlandet	106	18	68	1	1	0
Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023)	46	8	22	91	33	11
Agder	65	12	29	109	37	15
Rogaland	6	3	1	6	1	0
Vestland	18	9	4	12	5	0
Møre og Romsdal	29	8	7	8	3	0
Trøndelag - Trööndelage	24	18	16	7	4	0
Nordland - Nordlánnda	7	3	2	4	1	1
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023)	15	4	8	9	4	5

Explanation of symbols

Source

StatBank source table 03772

StatBank source table 03773

Table 3Expenditure and public subsidies at construction of forest roads. NOK 1 000

Expenditure and public subsidies at construction of forest roads. NOK 1 000
	Total	Whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries	Winter roads for lorries and roads for tractors	Public subsidies
	Expenditure			Public subsidies
2013	178 392	147 026	31 366	63 273
2014	186 366	148 350	38 016	60 963
2015	243 172	203 358	39 814	89 483
2016	267 534	221 771	45 763	98 021
2017	267 307	227 089	40 218	91 934
2018	252 274	214 959	37 315	92 567
2019	295 364	265 541	29 823	105 942
2020	299 097	257 313	41 784	106 357
2021	281 110	244 330	36 780	101 448
2022	288 372	251 053	37 319	104 050
2023	303 907	265 327	38 580	115 691

2023
Oslo and Viken (2020-2023)	60 884	57 232	3 652	19 405
Innlandet	55 005	54 940	65	16 178
Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023)	80 571	25 566	5 049	9 166
Agder	57 072	35 395	21 677	14 804
Rogaland	4 613	3 864	749	2 226
Vestland	20 088	18 094	1 994	9 804
Møre og Romsdal	17 261	15 943	1 318	9 124
Trøndelag - Trööndelage	39 940	39 229	711	22 181
Nordland - Nordlánnda	5 405	4 252	1 153	3 274
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023)	13 024	10 811	2 213	9 530

Explanation of symbols

Source

StatBank source table 03771

Table 4Average expenditure for forest road constructions. NOK per metre

Average expenditure for forest road constructions. NOK per metre¹
	All	Built with public subsidies	Built without public subsidies	All	Built with public subsidies	Built without public subsidies
	Whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries			Winter roads for lorries and roads for tractors
2013	371	395	188	124	179	97
2014	342	350	253	156	216	122
2015	462	468	402	168	272	89
2016	421	424	353	204	299	134
2017	463	462	479	180	317	115
2018	570	573	514	195	318	129
2019	543	565	309	151	369	102
2020	615	680	257	203	378	128
2021	720	756	321	253	504	139
2022	732	804	191	248	429	146
2023	912	942	333	279	491	215
¹[Comprise new constructions and roads rebuilt.

Explanation of symbols

Source

StatBank source table 09009

Table 5Total road length of whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries

Total road length of whole-year roads and summer roads for lorries¹
	Kilometres
The whole country
2022²	49 617
2023²	49 675
2024²	49 739

2024
Oslo and Viken (2020-2023)	11 023
Innlandet	18 191
Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023)	6 087
Agder	3 114
Vestland	1 580
Møre og Romsdal	965
Trøndelag - Trööndelage	5 954
Nordland - Nordlánnda	1 072
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023)	1 250
¹Source: The Norwegian Mapping Authorityand the Norwegian Public Roads Administration
²At 1. January.