www.materialflows.net is an online portal for material flow data, providing access to material flow data sets on the national level. The website is based on the worldwide first comprehensive database on global resource extraction, set up and administrated by SERI (Sustainable Europe Research Institute). The database comprises data for almost 200 countries for the time period of 1980 to 2007.

!!! NEW NEW NEW !!!

Data Update 2007

SERI has just finished a project funded by the Austrian Ministry for the Environment focusing on the update of the www.materialflows.net data set. In the course of the update data coverage has been extended until 2007 and earlier data has been revised.

Please note that our database is under constant revision. To keep it up to date and to mend possible data irregularities, we would very much appreciate your comments sent by e-mail to .

New MFA slides for your own presentation

As a part of the above mentioned project SERI also compiled a set of MS Powerpoint slides containing all the graphs from the section "World trends in material use and material efficiency". The slides also include explaining text and are the ideal material for your own presentation on MFA-related topics. You can download the slides under "World maps & data" or directly here.

www.materialflows.net applied

 "Overconsumption? Our use of the world's natural resources"

The new report by SERI, GLOBAL 2000 and Friends of the Earth Europe (September 2009) tells the global story of resource use, dealing with the environmental and social problems related to resource extraction, growing international trade of resources, and resource consumption, which often takes place far away from the extraction of resources. Download the full report in English and German language from www.seri.at/resource-report

Explore the website: