Material footprint per unit of GDP, by type of raw material (kilograms per constant 2020 United States dollar) by country
Countries reporting
2
Highest
0.5632 kg per constant US$
Melanesia
Lowest
0.5612 kg per constant US$
Australia and New Zealand
Median
0.5622 kg per constant US$
Years covered
23
2000–2022
Data points
828
What the numbers show
Material footprint per unit of GDP, by type of raw material (kilograms per constant 2020 United States dollar) is currently reported for 2 countries. The highest value is 0.5632 kg per constant US$ in Melanesia; the lowest is 0.5612 kg per constant US$ in Australia and New Zealand.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.5622 kg per constant US$, and the mean is 0.5622 kg per constant US$.
Material footprint per unit of GDP, by type of raw material: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melanesia | 0.5632 kg per constant US$ | 2022 | down 61.7% | falling |
| 2 | Australia and New Zealand | 0.5612 kg per constant US$ | 2022 | down 18.4% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Central America 11.03 kg per constant US$
- Latin America and the Caribbean 4.44 kg per constant US$
- Eastern Africa 3.41 kg per constant US$
- Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 3.13 kg per constant US$
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3.1 kg per constant US$
- Middle Africa 2.75 kg per constant US$
- Southern Asia 2.21 kg per constant US$
- Central and Southern Asia 2.19 kg per constant US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa 2.19 kg per constant US$
- Africa 2.03 kg per constant US$
- Central Asia 2.02 kg per constant US$
- Western Africa 1.93 kg per constant US$
- South-Eastern Asia 1.88 kg per constant US$
- South America 1.82 kg per constant US$
- Asia 1.67 kg per constant US$
- Northern Africa 1.64 kg per constant US$
- Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 1.64 kg per constant US$
- Eastern Asia 1.6 kg per constant US$
- Northern Africa and Western Asia 1.33 kg per constant US$
- Western Asia 1.25 kg per constant US$
- World 1.21 kg per constant US$
- Americas 1.15 kg per constant US$
- Eastern Europe 1.13 kg per constant US$
- Southern Africa 1.02 kg per constant US$
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 0.6135 kg per constant US$
- Oceania 0.5585 kg per constant US$
- Europe 0.5312 kg per constant US$
- Caribbean 0.5278 kg per constant US$
- Europe and Northern America 0.4996 kg per constant US$
- Southern Europe 0.4978 kg per constant US$
- Western Europe 0.4726 kg per constant US$
- Northern America 0.4703 kg per constant US$
- Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 0.4639 kg per constant US$
- Northern Europe 0.2977 kg per constant US$