Trends in the use of materials and material productivity in EU-12 and EU15

This figure shows the changes of GDP, Population, DMC and Material Productivity for EU15 and EU12 between 1970 and 2011/2009 respectively 1992 and 2011/2009

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Methodology

The methodology for the calculation of DMI / DMC was revised by Eurostat in 2007. In this figure, the data are calculated after the revised methodology from 2000 on. For the DMC Data before 2000: EU15: IFF database, EU12: WI database. Therefore, the data set compromises the consistency in order to provide an extended temporal coverage.

Units

index1970=100 or index1992=100

Additional information

The data are taken from external data bases: GDP in millions of 2011 US$ (converted to 2011 price level with updated 2005 EKS PPPs) from Total Economy Database, DMC from Eurostat, IFF database and WI database).

Trends in the use of materials and material productivity in EU-12 and EU15

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