Extraction, import and export of materials; national accounts
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This table contains information about materials that enter or leave the Dutch economy through import, export and extraction. Materials include raw products (resources), semi-finished products and finished products. The import and export of materials is recorded both in kilos (physically) and in euros (monetary). The currently presented tables can be referred to as the material flow accounts.
This table is part of the environmental accounts. Data in the environmental accounts are compiled according the concepts and definitions of the national accounts, which makes it possible to quantify the environmental effects of the economic activities for the Netherlands in a consistent manner. As a result, the figures may differ from data presented elsewhere on the website.
Data available from: 1996
Status of the figures:
Provisional figures.
Changes as of 17 August 2023:
A correction has been made to the international trade of fossil fuels for the period 1996-2004. This series had been incompletely updated, causing some past years not to reflect the most recent figures.
Changes as of 1 August 2023:
Provisional figures for 2021 have been added. Data for previous years are adjusted according to the revision policy (see: Status of the figures).
When will new figures be published?
New provisional figures are published annually, usually around August
Description topics
- Material flows in physical amounts
- Extraction by type of material
- Materials that are extracted from the environment and used by residents as input for the production process. Extraction comprises not only the mining and quarrying of minerals but also harvest of agricultural goods and the catch of non-cultivated fish.
- Fossil energy carriers
- Coal
- Black, combustible mineral, consisting of pressed organic material.
- Import by type of material
- The import of goods comprises goods, destined for Dutch residents that originate in other economies. This also included goods that, after import, leave the country again without any significant treatment taken place as long as these goods are owned by Dutch residents (re-exports).
- Biomass and related products
- Organic matter and products thereof.
- Total biomass and related products
- Organic matter and products thereof.
- Crops (excl. fodder crops)
- Crops meant for human consumption like, for example, cereals, vegetables and fruit. Also included are flowers and forestry products. Imported and exported crops also include products made from crops like bread, frozen vegetables and cigarettes.
- Cereals and related products
- Mainly wheat, corn and barley and derived products like bread.
- Roots, tubers and related products
- Mainly potatoes and derived products like chips.
- Sugar crops and related products
- Mainly sugar beets and derived products like sugar.
- Pulses and related products
- Pulses with edible seeds like peas and products thereof.
- Nuts and related products
- Tree-fruit with a hard shell and products thereof.
- Oil-bearing crops and related products
- Mainly soybeans and oil bearing seeds like caraway seed and products thereof.
- Vegetables and related products
- Fresh and processed vegetables like canned vegetables.
- Fruit and related products
- Fresh and processed fruit like canned fruit.
- Fibres and related products
- Mainly flax and products thereof.
- Other crops n.e.c. and related products
- Plants, flowers and tobacco and derived products like cigarettes and products thereof.
- Wood and related products
- Wood and derived products like doors and floors.
- Fish, aquatic life and related products
- Non-cultivated fresh fish and other aquatic life like shellfish and crustacean and products thereof.
- Products mainly from biomass
- Mainly beverages and paper.