EU’s material consumption: 14.1 tonnes per person in 2021, from 7 tonnes per person in the Netherlands, to 35 tonnes per person in Finland.
EU’s material consumption: 14.1 tonnes per person in 2021, from 7 tonnes per person in the Netherlands, to 35 tonnes per person in Finland.
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Domestic material consumption in each country is influenced by natural endowments with material resources, which may form an important structural element of each economy.
Furthermore, consumption of the main material categories also varied across EU Member States.
In 2021, consumption of non-metallic minerals ranged from 2 tonnes per person in the Netherlands to 23 tonnes per person in Romania. Cross-country differences can be a result of varied levels of construction activities (investments), population densities and sizes of transport infrastructures, such as road networks.
Biomass consumption varied from a tonne per person in Malta to 8 tonnes per person in Ireland. Economies with high biomass consumption are often specialised in timber production (Finland) or certain livestock production (Ireland, Denmark).
Consumption of fossil energy material varied from a tonne per person in Latvia to 8 tonnes per person in Luxembourg.
If population density is a large indicator, it makes sense Finland is much higher than the Netherlands but are there any other factors here for Finland being so high? Like five times more than a Dutch person is pretty huge difference
I wonder how the Netherlands has such low consumption per person.
I read that the domestic material consumption value accounts for both import and export. So maybe because we export high amounts of biomass it ends up hiding our consumption?