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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
Indicator purpose

Material footprint of consumption reports the number of primary materials required to serve final demand of a country and can be interpreted as an indicator for the material standard of living/level of capitalization of an economy.

Abstract

Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores.

Data source

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

Date last updated
28-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Annual

Unit of measure

per capita

per GDP

Other characteristics

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DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) and 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.

Disaggregation

The MF indicator can be disaggregated to four main material categories, a varying number of economic sectors whose expenditure require materials and to three domestic final demand sectors (household consumption, government consumption and capital investment) and foreign final demand (i.e. exports).

Key statistical concepts

It is calculated as the raw material equivalent of imports (RMEIM) plus domestic extraction (DE) minus raw material equivalents of exports (RMEEX). For the attribution of the primary material needs of final demand, a global, multi-regional input-output (MRIO) framework is employed. The attribution method based on I-O analytical tools is described in detail in Wiedmann et al. 2015. It is based on the EORA MRIO framework developed by the University of Sydney, Australia (Lenzen et al. 2013) which is an internationally well-established and the most detailed and reliable MRIO framework available to date.

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