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Material productivity

Last update of indicator14.01.2022

Indicator definition

Indicator describes trend in material productivity expressed by the ratio between GDP and domestic material consumption (GDP/DMC). Domestic material consumption (DMC) measures total volumes of materials consumed by economy and represents a sum of used domestic mineral and biomass extraction, including its import and excluding its export.  Growing material productivity points to a positive trend that indicates a rising productivity in transformation of material inputs into economic output.

Units

Index 2000 = 100

Metadata

Key messages

One of the major challenges in implementing green growth is to ensure the best possible use of material during its life cycle (extraction, treatment, transport, consumption, or treating material as waste). Effective exploitation of resources has influence on economic growth, positively impacts resource base as well as prices of feedstock and products, especially through implementing effective approaches and technologies.

The material productivity of the Slovak economy in the observed period (2005 - 2019) increased, while the increase was mainly due to economic growth with slower growing material consumption. This development indicates the degree of efficient use of materials in the Slovak economy.

Summary assessment

Source:Eurostat
Note:*GDP in constant price, reference year 2015 Source table

International comparison

The OECD Green Growth database contains selected indicators for monitoring progress towards green growth to support policy making and inform the public at large. The database provides a synthesis of data and indicators available across a wide range of domains. The sources of the underlying data used to populate the Green Growth Indicators, as presented here, include a range of OECD databases and, in some cases, external data sources. The database covers OECD member countries, accession countries and selected non-OECD countries (including the BRIICS economies - Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa).


OECD Green Growth Indicators Database

Contact

Ing. Katarína Škantárová, SAŽP, katarina.skantarova@sazp.sk

 

Methodology:

 

Selection and methodology of indicator’s assessment is based on the set of indicators proposed by the OECD and addressed by the report: "Green Growth: Monitoring progress towards green growth“. Data relating to the national situation are usually presented in the period between 2000 and 2012. Basic time sequence is changed in those cases when the data are not accessible or when their comparison is not possible due to differing approaches in their collection, assessment, changes in methodology, classification, etc.  Summary assessment of indicator’s trend from the green growth perspective is based on a subjective evaluation of the responsible assessor due to the fact that the strategy is not officially implemented in the Slovak Republic and therefore specific objectives have not been defined.  Naturally, this assessment builds on the analysis of the past trends, as well as their anticipated direction in view of the measures adopted as to date.
Selected indicators characterize Slovakia's initial position as seen from the perspective of the green growth and were to be used as a measuring tool before further steps are taken in the process of implementation of this strategy and for a complex assessment of the future trend of the Slovak economy.  Present set of green growth indicators comprises 32 individual indicators that are relevant in Slovakia's conditions. Four of them are national indicators that describe voluntary instruments of the environmental strategy.
 

Data sources:

Data used in this document come from the official national or international sources and databases.  Assessed trend was reviewed and discussed with the state administration specialists (individual departments of the ministries of Environment, Economy, Labour and Social Affairs and Family, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Development) and their professional organisations (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Slovak Environmnet Agency, State Nature Consservancy, Institute for Financial Policy) and also the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic whose databases furnish most of the information.

 

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