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Material stocks by end-use application between 1970 and 2022
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The critical raw materials bauxite (aluminium), manganese, copper and nickel are included in the figure but other critical raw materials, used in much smaller quantities, are not.
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- Own calculations based on data from (Wiedenhofer et al., 2024; Wiedenhofer et al., 2025).