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Aggregated material use, historic and projected, in EU-15 and EU-10

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The median value identifies the middle of a distribution, i.e

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50 % of data points lie below and 50 % lie above the median. The median is more useful than the average (mean) when differences between individual countries under comparison are very significant, which is the case here.

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Austria Belgium Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom

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