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Resource productivity and domestic material consumption (DMC)

Resource productivity and domestic material consumption 2015
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Resource productivity
EUR (chain linked volumes, 2015) per kg 4.4 2.6 2.0 (e) Estimated value
Index 2000 = 100 227.8 207.3 (e) Estimated value 130.3 (e) Estimated value
PPS per kg 4.7 2.8 2.0 (e) Estimated value
Domestic material consumption
Thousand tonnes 49,037.1 409,748.4 6,065,205.8 (e) Estimated value
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Material Flow Account. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(e) Estimated value.
Indicador ODS Indicator 12.20 from the EU Sustainable Development Goals

Last update: September 23, 2020. Revised series on December 23, 2021.

CFM

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Material Flow Accounts (CFM).

Methodological note

The domestic material consumption (DMC) measures the total amount of materials directly used by an economy. It is defined as the annual quantity of raw materials extracted from the domestic territory of the focal economy, plus all physical imports minus all physical exports.

Material productivity (or resource productivity) is calculated as gross domestic product (GDP) divided by domestic material consumption (DMC). To calculate it, GDP is used, either in the unit "Euros in chain-linked volumes" (with reference year 2015 at 2015 exchange rates) or in unit 'PPS' (Purchasing Power). Consequently, the material productivity is expressed: i) in euro per kg, for comparing the changes in one country over time; ii) in PPS per kg, for comparing different countries in one specific year. It is also calculated as an index on year 2000, for comparing countries in different years.

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