The graphical figure illustrates the change of rates in three forest productions, namely, timber, pulp, and paper, in European countries from 1980 to 2000. Overall, paper production shows a consistent increasing trend among all comparisons, while timber and pulp fluctuates in the entire observation period.
In detail, paper started to be the last in rank at roughly 2.5 million tonnes produced in 1980. However, it began to surpassed the pulp in 1985 with an equal productions at 5 million tones, have a break-even with timber in year 1990 by approximately 7.8 million tonnes, and then significantly increased, in which it managed to rank first with 8.5 million tonnes in 1995, respectively. Thereafter, paper industry continuously ascended until the year 2000 by 10 million tonnes.
Furthermore, timber was the first in rank in 1980, and pulp was second in rank. The former increased its production from 6 to 8.5 million tones in 1985, while the latter have similar trend wherein it obtained from 4 million tonnes and became 4.5 million tonnes in the same period. Moreover, both started to decline until 1990 and continuously rose until 2000 with 7.8 and 6 million tonnes productions.