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Wed, 20 Nov, 2013 12:06:13 AM FTimes Report, November 20  Total material requirement by material groups 1970–2012. Source: Statistics Finland. The biggest changes in domestic natural resource inputs from the year before were decreases in peat extraction and increases in mining of metal ores.
The direct inputs of imported processed products diminished by nearly 5%, but their hidden flows grew by almost 4%, according to the Economy-wide material flow accounts in 2012 published by Statistics Finland.
This was occasioned by growing imports of ores and electrical equipment. Large hidden flows from abroad are connected to them.
The direct inputs used by the national economy totalled around 240 million tonnes, of which domestic inputs made up 185 million tonnes in 2012, said the statistics.
The biggest domestic natural resource inputs are ore, gravel and sand, and wood and plants.
Plants and wild animals accounted for around 5% of domestic inputs that is around 10 million tonnes.
Material intensity of Finland's economy 1970-2012. Source: Statistics Finland. Over the past decades, the use of domestic natural resources has been at its lowest during the 1990s recession, around 140 million tonnes in 1993.
In 2012, Finland's national economy used 560 million tonnes of natural resources altogether.
Of this amount, around 245 million tonnes remained abroad as hidden flows and about 75 million tonnes were extracted, but remained unused domestically.
The amounts of hidden flows and unused natural resources are bigger than that of inputs.
Statistics Finland started publishing the Economy-wide material flow accounts in 2011.
The statistics are part of environmental accounts, on which the European Union passed a Regulation in 2011 and the UN gave an international recommendation last year.
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