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Domestic Material Consumption, Domestic Material Consumption Per Capita, And Domestic Material Consumption Per GDP
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8.4.2 Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
Metadata
| Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | Domestic material consumption (DMC) – measures the total amount of materials directly consumed in the economy. DMC can be understood as a proxy for the overall environmental burden associated with the use of materials in the Czech Republic (burden associated with the extraction of raw materials, their processing and waste streams), especially the burden, which is driven by consumption in the Czech Republic. The DMC indicator is also interpreted as waste potential, because all consumed materials will sooner or later turn into waste that we will have to deal with. |
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| Definition | Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) is a standard material flow accounting (MFA) indicator and reports the apparent consumption of materials in a national economy. |
| Measuring unit | Tonnes, tonnes per person, kg/USD, GDP – purchaser prices, 2015 constant prices |
| Indicator disaggregation | By type of material |
| Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
| Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
| Comment | From the decrease in material intensity, it is possible to deduce the increasing efficiency of the conversion of input material flows into economic output and also the decrease in the environmental burden per unit of GDP. Domestic material consumption (DMC) can be understood as a proxy for the overall environmental burden associated with the use of materials (burden associated with the extraction of raw materials, their processing and waste streams), especially the burden driven by consumption in the Czech Republic. The DMC indicator is also interpreted as waste potential, because all consumed materials will sooner or later turn into waste that we will have to deal with. In the period under review, between 2005 and 2021, domestic material consumption decreased by 11.3%, from 187.9 million tonnes to 166.7 million tonnes. In terms of per person, it was a decrease from 18.4 tons to 15.9 tons per person. The development was not constant in the whole period, over the years the maximum was reached in 2007 (196.7 million tons) and the minimum in 2013 (155.1 million tons). The overall trend in domestic material consumption was mainly due to non-metallic minerals, which accounted for the largest share (52% in 2020), whose consumption slightly increased between 2005 and 2020, from 86.1 million tonnes to 86.6 million tonnes. The second most represented component, fossil fuels, recorded a significant decrease, by 30.4%, from 72.9 million tonnes to 50.7 million tonnes. For some components of the indicator (other products, waste), even bigger changes were recorded in the monitored period, but due to their representation, the overall indicator was not affected by this. Material intensity expressed as DMC to GDP decreased by 35.7%, from 0.65 kg to USD 1 to 0.42 kg to USD 1. From the decrease in material intensity, it is possible to deduce the increasing efficiency of the conversion of input material flows into economic output and also the decrease in the environmental burden per unit of GDP. |
| Update periodicity | Annually |
| Time coverage since | 2005 |
| Time coverage until | 2021 |
| Time series available at the data provider since | 1993 |
| Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) | 15.1. in T+2 |
| Contact point - data provider - e-mail | eva.kozouskova@czso.cz |
| Contact point - data provider - name | Eva Kožoušková |
| Data source | Czech Statistical Office |
| Data origin | Agriculture, forestry and hunting statistics, mining statistics, statistics of foreign trade |
| Links to detailed metadata or methodology | Resource productivity and domestic material consumption (DMC) (sdg_12_20) (europa.eu) https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/material-flow-accounts-selected-indicators-times-series https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/EN/env_ac_mfa_simsmf_cz.htm https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-12-02-02.pdf |
| Links to international comparison | EU, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/data/database |