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Material Flows – Data & Indicators

This page provides downloadable datasheets with MFA statistics and indicators for European Union and for individual countries.

Datasheet for the Kiev report:
Click here to download the datasheet on Material Flows the ETC/WMF has prepared for the Kiev report.

European Union (EU-15):
Eurostat has published two MFA studies including MFA data for the European Union and which are downloadable from the web.

Eurostat (2001): Material use indicators for the European Union, 1980-1997 (prepared by S. Bringezu and H. Schütz from Wuppertal Institute), Eurostat Working Paper 2/2001/B/2, Eurostat: Luxemburg.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/print-catalogue/EN?c atalogue=Eurostat&product=KS-AO-01-002-__-I-EN

Eurostat (2002): Material use in the European Union 1980-2000, indicators and analysis (prepared by IFF/Austria), Working Paper and Studies series, Eurostat, Luxembourg.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/print-catalogue/EN?c atalogue=Eurostat&theme=2-Economy%20and%20Finance&product=KS-AO-02-005-_ _-N-EN

Further country-specific material flow data can be found on the Internet at:

United Kingdom:
Report "Resource use and efficiency of the UK economy": http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/des/waste/research/mfa/index.htm.

Finland:
Project "Eco-efficient Finland: natural resource use in the Finnish economy and possibilities of reducing it": http://thule.oulu.fi/ecoef.

Germany:
Material flow balances as part of the German Environmental and Economic Accounts are published every two years: http://www.destatis.de/themen/e/thm_environment.htm.

For further information on data & indicators, please contact Stephan Moll from the ETC/WMF team.

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