Raw materials, material flows, water

Topics Environmental-economic accounting

1.0 bn t of raw materials extracted

+ 34 % raw material input productivity

67 bn m3 water withdrawal from the environment

Press releases

7 July 2021 Raw material footprint, 2018: share of regrowing raw materials amounted to 16%

Germany’s raw material footprint for 2018 was 1,373 million tonnes. The use of regrowing biotic raw materials (e.g. cereals, wood) accounted for 16%, or 224 million tonnes. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the raw material footprint remained almost unchanged on 2017 (-1.0%). The raw material footprint indicates how much raw material is used globally for the production of goods to meet domestic consumption and investment demand. Consumer and capital goods, but also import and export goods are expressed in raw material equivalents to take account of the use of raw materials over the entire value chain.

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Raw material footprint

26 March 2021 Imports of raw materials, semi-finished and finished products down 5.8% in 2020

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Water abstraction from the environment by economy and private households:
around 67 billion m3

In 2022, economy and private households extracted nearly 66.886 million m3 of water from the environment. The total extraction was dominated by soil water, accounting for 66 %, followed by surface water (19 %) and groundwater (11 %). Soil water is defined as the uptake of water by agricultural plants, excluding irrigation water. Besides agriculture, especially the energy supply sector represents a major water extractor, being responsible for about one half (6.582 million m3) of the surface water extraction. In contrast, with 3.756 million m3 the public water supply extracts most groundwater.

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Raw materials, material flows

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Water intensity

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Water withdrawal from the environment

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Material flow account

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Raw Material Input Productivity

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Use of water by economic sectors and households