Indicator 8.4.1 - Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP - Indicators For The Sustainable Development Goals

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Goal

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Target

Target 8.4: Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead

Indicator

Indicator 8.4.1: Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP

Definition and concepts

Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores.

Comment and limitations

Method of computation

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Goal	Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Target	Target 8.4: Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
Indicator	Indicator 8.4.1: Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
UN designated tier	Tier II
UN custodian agency	United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Link to UN metadata	United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata opens in a new window

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Indicator 8.4.1 Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP