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Domestic  material comsumption extracted from the environment fell by 10.5%
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Domestic material comsumption extracted from the environment fell by 10.5% - 2022
22 December 2023

Summary

Domestic Material Consumption fell by 10.5% in 2022, in an economic context marked by real GDP growth of 6.8%. Biomass consumption reached 37.6 million tonnes, the highest in the available time series. In the last decade, as a result of a 5.7% reduction in Domestic Material Consumption and a 17.4% increase in GDP in volume, productivity in the use of materials increased by 24.6%, indicating a more efficient use of materials extracted from the environment.


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