Indicator 12.2.2 Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Definitions:

Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) is a standard material flow accounting (MFA) indicator and reports the apparent consumption of materials in a national economy.

DMC measures the total amount of material (biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metallic minerals) directly used in an economy and based on accounts of direct material flows, i.e., domestic material extraction and physical imports and exports.

Concepts:

DMC and Material Footprint (MF) need to be looked at in combination, as they cover the two aspects of the economy, production and consumption. The DMC reports the actual amount of material in an economy, MF the virtual amount required across the whole supply chain to service final demand. A country can, for instance, have a very high DMC because it has a large primary production sector for export or a very low DMC because it has outsourced most of the material intensive industrial process to other countries. The material footprint corrects for both phenomena.

Tonnes;

Kilograms per constant United States dollar;

Tonnes per capita.

The global estimation of DMC is based on data available from different national and international datasets in the domain of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining and energy statistics. International statistical sources for DMC include the International Energy Agency, the United Nations Statistical Division, the United States Geological Survey, the Food and Agriculture Organisation and COMTRADE databases.

National Statistical Offices

Domestic Material Consumption cannot be disaggregated to economic sectors which limits its potential to become a satellite account to the System of National Accounts (SNA).

Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) is a standard material flow accounting (MFA) indicator. MFAs below to environmental-economic accounts and apply the accounting concepts, structures, rules and principles of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Central Framework. It should be used in conjunction with reading the global EW-MFA guide The use of natural resources in the economy: A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting (https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/36253/UNRE.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y).

Domestic Material Consumption (DMC), by type of raw material (tonnes) is calculated as:

$DMC=DE+IM-EX,$

Where:

$DMC$ – domestic material consumption;

$DE$ – domestic extraction of materials;

$IM$ – direct imports;

$EX$ – direct exports.

DMC measure the amount of materials that are used in economic processes. It does not include materials that are mobilized for the process of domestic extraction but do not enter the economic process.

Domestic material consumption per capita, by type of raw material (tonnes), is calculated as:

$DMC\mathrm{\ }per\mathrm{\ }capita=\mathrm{\ }\frac{DMC}{Annual\mathrm{\ }average\mathrm{\ }population}$

Domestic material consumption per unit of GDP, by type of raw material (kilograms per constant 2015 United States dollars), is calculated as:

$DMC\mathrm{\ }per\mathrm{\ }GDP=\mathrm{\ }\frac{DMC}{GDP\mathrm{\ }in\mathrm{\ }constant\mathrm{\ }2015\mathrm{\ }United\mathrm{\ }States\mathrm{\ }Dollars}$

2024-07-29

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

8.4.1, 12.2.1, 12.2.2