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Material stocks per capita, comparison of the EU average to other non-EU countries
Chart (interactive)
This figure shows the developed of material stocks over time, expressed in tonnes per capita (t/capita). The graph compares the EU average with other major economies, China, Japan and USA.
t/capita refers to tonnes per capita.
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Data sources
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More info
- Material stocks in t/cap (direct link to dataset not available), European Environment Agency (EEA)
Austria, Japan, Belgium, Latvia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Malta, Czechia, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Estonia, People’s Republic of China, Finland, Portugal, France, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, United States
1990-2022
Methodology
The data is calculated based on the MISO model. The methodology is described in Wiedenhofer et al., 2024: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13575