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 2006.

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"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

Data Update 2006

SERI is just finishing the revision of the update of the www.materialflows.net data set. In the course of the update data coverage has been extended until 2006 and earlier data has been revised.

Illustrating worldwide extraction trends

In order to increase the informative value of the data provided on www.materialflows.net, in 2007/2008 SERI developed a tool which allows for the visualisation of the global extraction data on worldmaps.

A new tool, called ‘gapminder’, has been developed and shows the interrelations between different socio-economic parameters and material extraction indicators, as well as changes in the performance of different countries. The b-version (still under revision) of the gapminder is already online and to be explored by the users.

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 .

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