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These 30 products made up around 80%% of the total EU material footprint in 2011.

For example, health and social work services ranked second in the product list, with a contribution of 6.6 % to the total material footprint in 2011.

The contribution of agriculture and forestry products to the EU material footprint in 2011 was 5%%, than that of mining products 3%%.

Materials embodied in service sector activities together contributed a quarter to the total material footprint in 2011, making services an important, but currently disregarded area for European resource policies.

Figure 3 illustrates that the composition of the EU material footprint in terms of aggregated product groups remained relatively stable across the observed time period, despite the overall growing material footprint (compare Fig. 1 above).

This paper provides a detailed assessment of the composition of EU's material footprint in its global context, aiming at identifying the main product groups contributing to overall material consumption and specifying the geographical sources for the raw materials required to satisfy EU's final demand.

The findings of this study confirmed that reduction of carbon and material footprints in households requires that the consumption of commodities be selective and carefully considered.

For the material footprint assessments in this paper, we apply the MRIO database EXIOBASE (Tukker et al. 2013, 2014; Wood et al. 2015), a very detailed global MRIO database, developed in particular for environmental assessments of the EU.

Three percentage of biomass in the EU material footprint was extracted in India with a similar product focus as in the Chinese case.

The product "construction work," which is identical to the aggregated group "construction" as illustrated above, constitutes by far the largest product group in the overall EU material footprint (23.2 % in 2011).

When analyzed by main material groups, it is clearly visible that the category of industrial and construction minerals contributes the largest share to the material footprint (54 % in 2011, up from 43 % in 1995).