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)
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
**Cars and commercial vehicles in millions
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