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Material intensity (MI = DMC / GDP) for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008.
3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 Asia-Pacific Rest of World World 0.5 0.0 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Figure 7 Material intensity (MI = DMC / GDP) for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008. kg/$US
Material intensity (MI = DMC / GDP) for the Asia-Pacific region, Rest of the World, and World, for the years 1970 – 2008.
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The shares of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals increased strongly between 1970-2008, although
the very rapid share growth for non-ferrous metals through to 2000 reversed over the final decade,
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en as total tonnage still increased by 15% over that 8 year period.2 The share of industrial minerals
decreased quite strongly from 1970-2008, while growth in total tonnage terms was almost as slow
as for biomass, with DMC tripling.
Very rapid rates of growth of construction minerals DMC continued across the full 1970-2008 period,
both in share terms, and in total tonnage terms. This growth accelerated in the final decade even
though starting from a very high base. Stark variations exist between countries in the region on
this measure, with some economies such as Thailand and the Republic of Korea appearing quite
sensitive to events such as the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997 and the GFC in 2008, with
strong contractions in DMC of construction minerals evident in their individual country analyses (see
Section 4). Others such as China and Viet Nam show little response. This is also visible in Figure 8,
as is the degree to which China’s consumption of primary resources has come to dominate regional
aggregates, while the dominant role of construction minerals in China’s account becomes clear in
Figure 10. In combination, this indicates that the relative robustness of the region’s growth into the
beginning of the GFC largely reflects a continued very large scale build up of major infrastructure in
China.
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