section_path: Uses/Production
section_name: Production
paragraph_text: Production
  
  Global production of roundwood rose from 3.5 billion m ³ in 2000 to 4 billion m ³ in 2021. In 2021, wood fuel was the main product with a 49 percent share of the total (2 billion m ³), followed by coniferous industrial roundwood with 30 percent (1.2 billion m ³) and non-coniferous industrial roundwood with 21 percent (0.9 billion m ³). Asia and the Americas are the two main producing regions, accounting for 29 and 28 percent of the total roundwood production, respectively; Africa and Europe have similar shares of 20–21 percent, while Oceania produces the remaining 2 percent.