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most buildings? any example of such a country?



Norway. At least most buildings where people live. That’s not exactly the same statement that most people live in wood buildings, since more people can live in a single concrete block. But I would venture that at least half the population lives in wooden buildings.


If you want a detached house (or a townhouse) in Norway it means wood.


Not all but many of small houses are wood and 50% of the Swedish population lives in these houses[1], some of the bigger houses are wood as well. Construction relies heavily on wood. This was not my experience in many other countries, even when there was wood in the vicinity. I think the readily availability of spruce and pine is one reason. It would be interesting to know statistics from Denmark because in the south of Sweden wood is that used as much.

You can see this in the tradition of constructing fences as well, if there is a lot of wood people use lots of it. In the south near Denmark the tradition is to use as little as possible.

[1] https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisk...


Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia etc. etc.




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