Domestic material consumption per capita
The indicator presents the domestic material consumption (DMC) for each Member State and EU-27 and is expressed in tonnes per capita. The DMC is defined as the total amount of material directly used in an economy and equals direct material input (DMI) minus exports. DMI measures the direct input of materials for the use in the economy. DMI equals domestic extraction (DE) plus imports.
The indicator is part of resource efficiency scoreboard
http://measuring-progress.eu/resource-efficiency-scoreboard [2]
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/web/table/description.jsp [3]
Retrieved: 23 February 2015
Data host:
Eurostat
Unit of Measurement:
Tonnes per capita
Link to Data:
Type of Indicator source:
Geographical Coverage:
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Germany
Denmark
Estonia
Spain
Finland
France
Croatia
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Latvia
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Sweden
Slovenia
Slovakia
Turkey
Geographical Level:
- National [6]
Same/similar indicators appears in the following sets:
Temporal Coverage:
2000 to 2013
Frequency of Updates:
- annualy [12]
Link to Methodology:
Eurostat metadata [13]
Aggregation level of indicator:
- Single [14]
Data quality assesment:
Publishing delay:
- 1-3 years [16]
Link to data quality assessment:
Eurostat metadata [17]
Contribution to the green economy:
Generally a decrease in the indicator value is beneficial to the environment and to the Green Economy.
Cost of accessing data:
- free of charge [18]
