Table 12.2 - Consumption patterns for selected commodities
Source: Parikh and Parikh, 1991, cited in UNEP, 1992
Category | Products | World total (Mt) | Share (%) | Per capita (kg or m2) | Proportion (developed/ developing) | ||
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Developed | Developing | Developed | Developing | ||||
Food | Cereals | 1801 | 48 | 52 | 717 | 247 | 3 |
Milk | 533 | 72 | 28 | 320 | 39 | 8 | |
Meat | 114 | 64 | 36 | 61 | 11 | 6 | |
Forest | Roundwood | 2410 | 46 | 54 | 388 | 339 | 1 |
Sawnwood | 338 | 78 | 22 | 213 | 19 | 11 | |
Paperboards | 224 | 81 | 19 | 148 | 11 | 14 | |
Industrial | Fertilisers | 141 | 60 | 40 | 70 | 15 | 5 |
Cement | 1036 | 52 | 48 | 451 | 130 | 3 | |
Cotton and wool fabrics* | 30 | 47 | 53 | 15.6 | 5.8 | 3 | |
Metals | Copper | 10 | 86 | 14 | 7 | 0.4 | 19 |
Iron and steel | 699 | 80 | 20 | 469 | 36 | 13 | |
Aluminium | 22 | 86 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 16 | |
Chemicals | Inorganic chemicals | 226 | 87 | 13 | 163 | 8 | 20 |
Organic chemicals | 391 | 85 | 15 | 274 | 16 | 17 | |
Transport | Cars** | 370 | 92 | 8 | 0.283 | 0.012 | 24 |
vehicles | Commercial vehicles** | 105 | 85 | 15 | 0.075 | 0.0006 | 125 |
Notes:
Cereal, milk and meat data refer to 1987. Roundwood, sawnwood and paperboards data refer to 1988. Fertiliser consumption includes nitrogen, phosphate and potash fertilisers. Cotton and wool fabric excludes synthetics as well as data from the former USSR and China. Data sources: Statistical Year Book 1987; Handbook of industrial statistics 1989; International Trade Statistics Yearbook; UN FAO Book of Production 1989; and Handbook of Industrial Statistics 1988 UNIDO. Per capita data are calculated.
* | Cotton and wool fabric world total consumption in billion square metres and per capita consumption in square metres |
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** | Cars and commercial vehicles in millions |