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Hard Fibres, Other — Other uses (non-food) by country

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Countries reporting
140
Highest
547,114 t
China, mainland
Lowest
0 t
Netherlands Antilles (former)
Median
240.5 t
Years covered
53
1961–2013
Data points
8,660

What the numbers show

Hard Fibres, Other — Other uses (non-food) is currently reported for 140 countries. The highest value is 547,114 t in China, mainland; the lowest is 0 t in Netherlands Antilles (former).

The median across all reporting countries is 240.5 t, and the mean is 8,467 t.

Over the past decade 65 countries rose and 45 fell. The largest increase was in Sudan (former) (up 7,666.7%), and the largest decrease in Belarus (down 100.0%).

Hard Fibres, Other — Other uses: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China, mainland 547,114 t 2013 up 453.8% volatile
2 Sri Lanka 144,997 t 2013 up 1,615.7% volatile
3 Brazil 60,384 t 2013 down 38.1% rising
4 Ghana 40,439 t 2013 up 4.2% volatile
5 Canada 39,277 t 2013 up 1,435.5% volatile
6 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 27,030 t 2013 up 316.1% volatile
7 Malaysia 24,202 t 2013 down 9.0% falling
8 Ethiopia 21,442 t 2013 up 8.0% rising
9 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 20,713 t 2013 up 289.1% volatile
10 Mexico 18,650 t 2013 up 135.8% volatile
11 Ethiopia PDR 17,573 t 1992 down 26.5% rising
12 Spain 16,770 t 2013 up 69.1% volatile
13 Colombia 16,023 t 2013 down 21.9% falling
14 India 13,333 t 2013 down 97.4% rising
15 Russian Federation 11,998 t 2013 up 864.5% volatile
16 Germany 11,488 t 2013 up 40.3% falling
17 Bangladesh 10,838 t 2013 down 8.2% rising
18 Sierra Leone 9,187 t 2013 up 13.0% volatile
19 Australia and New Zealand 8,797 t 2013 up 93.2% volatile
20 Yugoslav SFR 7,600 t 1991 up 22.5% volatile
21 Slovenia 7,020 t 2013 up 90.8% rising
22 South Africa 6,918 t 2013 up 49.7% rising
23 Thailand 6,760 t 2013 up 231.5% volatile
24 Nicaragua 5,250 t 2013 up 23.5% volatile
25 Philippines 4,942 t 2013 down 10.4% rising
26 Poland 4,611 t 2013 up 135.9% volatile
27 New Zealand 4,563 t 2013 up 30.0% falling
28 Cuba 4,523 t 2013 up 10.7% falling
29 Australia 4,234 t 2013 up 305.9% volatile
30 Ecuador 4,218 t 2013 up 78.4% volatile
31 Saudi Arabia 4,104 t 2013 up 5,161.5% volatile
32 Cambodia 3,650 t 2013 up 14.1% rising
33 Italy 3,504 t 2013 up 83.3% volatile
34 Portugal 3,465 t 2013 up 247.2% volatile
35 Pakistan 3,373 t 2013 up 210.6% volatile
36 Ireland 3,178 t 2013 up 719.1% volatile
37 France 3,150 t 2013 up 43.6% volatile
38 El Salvador 3,134 t 2013 up 12.9% volatile
39 Algeria 2,334 t 2013 — volatile
40 Belgium 2,258 t 2013 up 31.4% rising
41 C�te d'Ivoire 2,100 t 2013 up 144.8% volatile
42 Egypt 2,064 t 2013 up 6,558.1% volatile
43 Greece 2,042 t 2013 down 12.2% volatile
44 Chile 2,027 t 2013 up 18.6% rising
45 Japan 1,897 t 2013 down 66.9% volatile
46 United Arab Emirates 1,777 t 2013 up 5,453.1% volatile
47 Republic of Korea 1,740 t 2013 up 30.7% volatile
48 Argentina 1,650 t 2013 up 3.5% volatile
49 Belgium-Luxembourg 1,413 t 1999 up 17.4% falling
50 China, Taiwan Province of 1,164 t 2013 down 87.0% falling
51 Switzerland 1,095 t 2013 up 130.5% volatile
52 Azerbaijan 901 t 2013 — volatile
53 Denmark 810 t 2013 up 629.7% volatile
54 Israel 780 t 2013 down 62.0% volatile
55 Norway 762 t 2013 up 116.5% volatile
56 T�rkiye 751 t 2013 up 3,476.2% volatile
57 Romania 701 t 2013 up 3,405.0% volatile
58 USSR 700 t 1991 down 66.9% volatile
59 Kazakhstan 490 t 2013 — volatile
60 Nepal 482 t 2013 up 760.7% volatile
61 Guatemala 470 t 2013 up 201.3% volatile
62 New Caledonia 435 t 2013 up 888.6% volatile
63 Kuwait 423 t 2013 — volatile
64 Samoa 420 t 2013 down 11.4% falling
65 Latvia 410 t 2013 up 1,105.9% volatile
66 Jamaica 322 t 2013 up 307.6% volatile
67 Cyprus 315 t 2013 up 462.5% volatile
68 Austria 299 t 2013 down 70.8% volatile
69 Tunisia 279 t 2013 up 896.4% volatile
70 Oman 248 t 2013 down 59.1% volatile
71 Sudan (former) 233 t 2011 up 7,666.7% volatile
72 Dominican Republic 186 t 2013 — volatile
73 Panama 178 t 2013 up 641.7% volatile
74 Czechia 163 t 2013 down 61.1% volatile
75 Bulgaria 162 t 2013 up 68.8% volatile
75 Croatia 162 t 2013 up 710.0% volatile
77 Myanmar 155 t 2013 down 4.3% falling
78 Georgia 141 t 2013 — volatile
79 Morocco 128 t 2013 down 26.9% volatile
80 Sweden 120 t 2013 down 60.3% volatile
81 Gabon 98 t 2013 — volatile
82 Burkina Faso 96 t 2013 up 638.5% volatile
83 Brunei Darussalam 93 t 2013 up 675.0% volatile
84 Hungary 92 t 2013 down 37.0% volatile
85 Costa Rica 85 t 2013 up 372.2% volatile
86 Uganda 83 t 2013 up 2,666.7% volatile
87 Slovakia 82 t 2013 down 57.3% volatile
88 Mauritius 79 t 2013 down 26.9% volatile
89 Nigeria 76 t 2013 down 30.9% volatile
90 Lebanon 75 t 2013 up 56.2% volatile
91 Ukraine 73 t 2013 — volatile
92 Madagascar 68 t 2013 down 96.2% falling
93 Estonia 66 t 2013 up 6,500.0% volatile
94 Peru 62 t 2013 down 12.7% volatile
95 Yemen 53 t 2013 — volatile
96 Liberia 42 t 2013 — volatile
97 Jordan 34 t 2013 — volatile
97 China, Hong Kong SAR 34 t 2013 down 52.8% volatile
99 Maldives 30 t 2013 up 20.0% volatile
100 Cameroon 29 t 2013 — volatile
101 Gambia 27 t 2013 — volatile
102 Uruguay 26 t 2013 up 2,500.0% volatile
103 Bosnia and Herzegovina 25 t 2013 up 1,150.0% volatile
103 Iraq 25 t 2013 — volatile
103 Kenya 25 t 2013 down 99.0% volatile
103 Malta 25 t 2013 down 28.6% volatile
107 Armenia 24 t 2013 — volatile
107 North Macedonia 24 t 2013 — volatile
109 Togo 23 t 2013 — volatile
110 Senegal 21 t 2013 up 200.0% volatile
111 Finland 20 t 2013 down 59.2% volatile
112 Suriname 19 t 2013 down 20.8% volatile
113 Congo 14 t 2013 — volatile
113 Iceland 14 t 2013 — volatile
115 Lithuania 12 t 2013 unchanged volatile
115 Zambia 12 t 2013 down 70.7% volatile
117 Luxembourg 10 t 2013 down 76.2% volatile
118 Angola 6 t 2013 down 99.8% volatile
119 Trinidad and Tobago 3 t 2013 — volatile
120 Serbia 2 t 2013 down 80.0% volatile
120 Zimbabwe 2 t 2013 down 85.7% volatile
122 Albania 1 t 2013 — volatile
123 Antigua and Barbuda 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Bahamas 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Belarus 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Barbados 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Botswana 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Grenada 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Guyana 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Honduras 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Kyrgyzstan 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Mali 0 t 2013 — volatile
123 Malawi 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Namibia 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Niger 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Paraguay 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 French Polynesia 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Eswatini 0 t 2013 down 100.0% volatile
123 Czechoslovakia 0 t 1992 down 100.0% volatile
123 Netherlands Antilles (former) 0 t 2010 — volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Hard Fibres, Other — Other uses (non-food)
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
180 places, 8,660 data points, 1961–2013
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Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.