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Domestic Materials Consumption for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008.
3 Material use patterns and material efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 Asia-Pacific ARest of World- World 10,000 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Figure 1 Domestic Materials Consumption for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008. Million tonnes
Domestic Materials Consumption for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008.
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Figure 1 shows domestic materials consumption (DMC) for the Asia-Pacific region increasing from
6.2 billion tonnes to 37.5 billion tonnes between 1970 and 2008, a compounding annual growth rate
of 4.8...
%. Total DMC for the Asia-Pacific region surpassed that of the rest of the world (ROW) in 2005,
having started out from a base of only one third of ROW materials consumption in 19701. Because
of the growing dominance of Asia-Pacific for total world resources demand the demand curve for
the World as a whole has come to increasingly reflect that for the region. While rapid growth in the
Asia-Pacific region of around 4.2% during the decade 1970-1980 only lifted World growth above
ROW growth by 0.5 percentage points (ROW = 2.3%, World = 2.8%), growth of 5.6 % in the Asia-
Pacific from 1998-2008 raised World growth by 1.8 percentage points above the ROW rate (ROW =
1.8, World = 3.6%). Over the initial year of the GFC, in 2008, almost all the World’s continued growth
in DMC could be attributed to the Asia-Pacific region, as DMC growth for the ROW was essentially
static.
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