About this Dataset

Material Flow Accounts

These data refer to material resources, i.e. materials originating from natural resources that form the material basis of the economy: metals (ferrous, non-ferrous) non-metallic minerals (construction minerals, industrial minerals), biomass (wood, food) and fossil energy carriers.

Data source(s) : U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Material Flows Database for non European countries and for material footprint data; Eurostat's Material Flow and Productivity database (for EU countries + Norway, Switzerland and Turkiye)

Contact : ENV.Stat@oecd.org

Dataset release date : August 27, 2025

Database documentation

Tables

Observations

@oecd.oecd_env_epi_dsd_material_resources_df_material_resources_v1_0.observations

8.68 MB
1,199,290 rows
17 columns

CREATE TABLE observations (
  "dataflow" VARCHAR,
  "ref_area" VARCHAR,
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "measure" VARCHAR,
  "unit_measure" VARCHAR,
  "group" VARCHAR,
  "time_period" BIGINT,
  "obs_value" DOUBLE,
  "obs_status" VARCHAR,
  "obs_status_2" VARCHAR,
  "obs_status_3" VARCHAR,
  "obs_status_4" VARCHAR,
  "unit_mult" BIGINT,
  "price_base" VARCHAR,
  "decimals" BIGINT,
  "conversion_type" VARCHAR,
  "base_per" VARCHAR
);