Material extraction (used) (construction minerals) from Global Material Flows Database

The following data was used in the paper "Schiller & Roscher (2023). Impact of Urbanization on construction material consumption: A global analysis" to calculate material consumption of non-metallic mineral construction materials.

This dataset provided data on the extraction of mineral construction materials that are used for further processes. The data represent the extraction of raw materials from the environment by country. They are based on reported data on the one hand and estimated data on the other. The specific assumptions and factors for the estimates can be found in Krausmann et al. (2009). Growth in global material use, GDP and population during the 20th century. Ecological Economics 68(10) 2696-2705. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.05.007.
In the MFA methodology, some categories of materials are defined as "unused extraction" because they are not economically used or further processed. For example, unused materials include overburden from mining activities and unused residues from biomass extraction (OECD, 2008). These are not included in presented data.

The following materials belong to the group of construction minerals: asphalt, chert and flint, common clay, clay for bricks etc., crushed stone, igneous rock, lava sand, limestone, marl, shell, loam, marble, travertines, sand and gravel, sandstone, slate and turfaceous rock (see Lutter, S., Lieber, M., & Giljum, S. (2016). Global Materialflow database. Material extraction data. Technical Report, Version 2015.1. retrieved February 2018 from www.materialflows.net).
The status of the given data is spring 2018 and was downloaded from www.materialflows.net at this time. Due to restructuring of the website, 2018 data is no longer available online. Current data on material extraction and consumption can be found on United Nations Environment Programme, International Resource Panel (IRP). (2023). Global Material Flows Database. https://www.resourcepanel.org/global-material-flows-database.