The Philippines’ domestic material consumption (DMC) reached 427 million metric tons (MT) in 2023, a 4.1-percent increase from 410.20 million MT in 2022.
Biomass accounted for the largest share, contributing 39.7 percent to the total DMC, followed by non-metallic minerals at 29.8 percent.
DMC measures the total amount of materials directly used in an economy. It’s the sum of domestic extractions from biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals, fossil fuels, and physical imports minus physical exports.
Meanwhile, domestic extraction of materials totaled 360.53 million MT in 2023, a 4.5 percent increase from 344.93 million MT in 2022.
The Philippine Statistics Authority said of the 360.53 million MT, 41.7 percent was attributed to biomass (such as crops, crop residues, wood, and wild harvest), 31.3 percent came from non-metallic minerals, 21 percent from mined metal ores, and 6 percent from fossil fuel extraction.
The Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) of the Philippines tracks the entry of materials from the natural environment into the national economy and physical trade with the rest of the world. It provides information for monitoring resource efficiency in consumption and production.
The country’s material productivity increased by 1.4 percent in 2023, reaching P49.30 per kilogram of materials used, from P48.62 in 2022.
Material productivity, also known as resource efficiency, is the ratio of Gross Domestic Product to DMC. It indicates the amount of economic output or value added generated per unit of materials consumed.
The Special Release on the EW-MFA of the Philippines is a result of a pilot study by the Environment and Natural Resources Accounts Division of the Macroeconomic Accounts Service.
The current report focuses only on domestic extraction, imports and exports. Information about domestic processed output will be included in future publications when data becomes available.
