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Domestic consumption of materials (DMC) Catalonia
Total Domestic extraction Physical foreign trade balance Imports from abroad Exports abroad Physical trade balance with the rest of the State Imports from the rest of the State Exports to the rest of the State (1) DMC per inhabitant Material productivity (GDP at current prices / DMC) (€/kg) Material intensity (DMC/GDP at current prices) (kg/€)
2021 48,129,229 35,609,848 15,664,941 48,187,255 32,522,314 -3,145,560 43,267,391 46,412,951 6.21 5.09 0.20
2020 48,018,334 37,829,759 14,741,627 45,526,235 30,784,608 -4,553,053 36,239,501 40,792,554 6.20 4.69 0.21
2019 55,317,163 38,690,387 22,540,875 56,829,458 34,288,583 -5,914,097 35,754,962 41,669,059 7.20 4.55 0.22
2018 51,845,652 37,433,253 20,709,062 54,311,917 33,602,855 -6,296,662 35,033,892 41,330,555 6.83 4.68 0.21
2017 48,770,121 37,522,659 18,611,339 53,178,582 34,567,243 -7,363,877 35,160,036 42,523,913 6.49 4.76 0.21
2016 45,881,996 35,053,486 18,291,845 49,401,576 31,109,731 -7,463,335 34,393,472 41,856,807 6.14 4.85 0.21
2015 49,037,075 34,722,934 19,128,603 50,807,776 31,679,172 -4,814,463 34,283,635 39,098,098 6.59 4.36 0.23
2014 45,567,249 33,485,303 19,418,109 50,224,060 30,805,951 -7,336,165 30,835,348 38,171,513 6.13 4.50 0.22
2013 42,224,390 33,208,863 13,969,535 42,635,889 28,666,354 -4,954,011 30,783,241 35,737,251 5.66 4.77 0.21
2012 49,203,070 39,003,424 16,098,963 45,880,005 29,781,042 -5,899,317 31,915,159 37,814,476 6.56 4.10 0.24
2011 58,743,137 47,782,095 19,337,582 47,545,930 28,208,347 -8,376,539 32,516,215 40,892,755 7.82 3.55 0.28
2010 72,481,954 54,388,772 26,563,322 53,412,420 26,849,099 -8,470,140 33,490,754 41,960,894 9.69 2.88 0.35
2009 83,879,633 65,419,071 29,856,277 53,175,387 23,319,110 -11,395,716 32,528,329 43,924,044 11.28 2.47 0.41
2008 98,281,777 74,725,302 34,836,165 59,842,735 25,006,569 -11,279,690 39,091,944 50,371,634 13.36 2.20 0.45
2007 121,020,157 92,527,260 36,240,930 57,073,215 20,832,286 -7,748,032 39,742,168 47,490,200 16.76 1.75 0.57
2006 116,875,500 93,539,263 33,080,888 52,573,577 19,492,689 -9,744,654 35,856,102 45,600,756 16.53 1.70 0.59
2005 117,759,055 91,476,796 35,812,910 55,584,987 19,772,077 -9,530,649 33,349,058 42,879,708 17.02 1.56 0.64
2004 117,963,134 94,100,999 32,858,188 52,393,799 19,535,611 -8,996,053 33,372,183 42,368,236 17.42 1.44 0.69
2003 114,629,754 90,393,632 30,367,830 49,279,681 18,911,851 -6,131,707 31,664,723 37,796,431 17.30 1.37 0.73
2002 98,249,565 79,189,512 29,655,618 46,595,989 16,940,371 -10,595,565 28,155,297 38,750,862 15.17 1.49 0.67
2001 92,949,354 74,145,520 27,653,448 44,838,027 17,184,580 -8,849,614 26,675,797 35,525,412 14.69 1.47 0.68
2000 90,558,239 71,046,411 26,636,102 43,381,430 16,745,328 -7,124,274 25,402,441 32,526,716 14.57 1.41 0.71
Units: Tons.
Source: Idescat. Material Flow Accounts.
(1) Includes the balance between imports and exports for the trade in hydrocarbons with the rest of the State.

Last update: March 27, 2024.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Trade balance with foreign countries
The materials, goods or products purchased are shipped from or to foreign countries.
Physical trade balance
Difference between imports and exports of materials (raw materials, goods and products). There are two kinds: the physical trade balance with the rest of the State and the physical trade balance with foreign countries.
Physical trade balance with foreign countries
The materials, goods or products purchased are shipped from or to the Spanish State.
Domestic material consumption
Accounting derivative resulting from the sum total of domestic extraction and the physical trade balance Quantifies the materials used directly in the economy.
Domestic extraction
Sum total of the raw materials extracted from the Catalan ecosystems, expressed in physical terms, to be used as input material in the economic system.
Material productivity
Indicator resulting from dividing the GDP between the domestic material consumption. This is a tool for evaluating the progress of the economy towards lesser dependence on material resources. High productivity reflects an economy with low resource use, based on knowledge, services and the efficiency of the resource uses. The results are expressed in €/kg.

Methodological aspects

The Material Flow Accounts show the physical inputs that enter the economy from the environment or other economic systems and the outputs that are heading towards other economies or the natural environment. Therefore, it describes the interaction of an economy with the environments and with economies from the rest of the world. In this way we can determine the dependencies and deficiencies of an economic system and, at the same time, the impacts that it generates on the environment.

The magnitudes included in the Material Flow Account are expressed in tonnes and refer to the calendar year. All the materials used by the economy are accounted for, except water and air, as they represent an enormous mass and their prevalence could dilute the effect of the others.

Analysing the material flows that circulate through an economic system enables us to measure the physical dimension of a society's resource use and to search for solutions to their environmental impact.

This methodology produces indicators that provide an overview of the physical dimension of the economy and its evolution, based on the accounting of the materials that come in and out of the economic system.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.