Summary
Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) decreased 17,6% in 2012. The negative growth of national economy, along with the decreased share of material intensive use industries (such as construction), were the main reasons for this result. DMC contracted more than Growth Domestic Product (GDP) (-3.2%), which resulted in an increased resource productivity (+17.4%), maintaining the trend observed since 2008. In 2011, the latest year with available information for EU-28, Portugal presented the seventh lower resource productivity in the EU-28.