Number of forest owners in the New Zealand

The New Zealand totals do not equal the sum of the wood supply regions because some owners have forests in more than one region. This is particularly the case for large owners in the 1000-9999 hectare and 10000+ hectare size classes.

Afforestation: The planting of trees for the primary purpose of producing wood or wood fibre, on land that has not previously been used for growing planted production forests.
Forest area: Net stocked planted production forest area.
Net stocked forest area: The planted production forest area occupied by trees, excluding mappable gaps such as landings, roads and other unstocked areas.

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/forest-industry-and-workforce/forestry-wood-processing-data/new-zealand-forest-data/about-the-national-exotic-forest-description-survey/

At URL provided, select 'National Exotic Forest Description 2023' > 'Download the 2023 NEFD tables'.
Some sheets were combined by Figure.NZ for processing purposes.

The National Exotic Forest Description (NEFD) provides a detailed description of New Zealand’s planted production forest to help with resource policy planning and industry development.

To maintain an authoritative, high quality database of New Zealand’s production forests.

The NEFD surveys known forest owners and managers with at least 40 hectares of planted exotic production forest. The survey is run on a two-yearly cycle, where all known forest owners with 40 or more hectares of forest are surveyed one year (census), and the next year only owners with more than 1,000 hectares (sample).