Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

These statistics are published monthly in a Danish press release.

Publications

The working paper Danish Material Flows - Description and Documentation of Statistics Denmark's Material Flow Accounts describes the various material flow accounts produced and published by Statistics Denmark in the Statistics Bank. The paper provides an overview of the data available in the Statistics Bank and describes the methods and source data used in compiling the accounts.

These statistics are included in the Statistical Decade Overview. Material flows measured in raw material equivalents were part of the DST analysis How does our consumption affect the world's natural resources?.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Material flows and waste in the following table:

• MRM2: Economy-wide material flow accounts by material type and indicator
• RME1: Material flows converted to raw material equivalents by type of raw material and indicator
• RME2: Import and export in raw material equivalents by goods and services and type of raw material

Furthermore, an SDG indicator is published based on the Material Flow Accounts, measured in tons per capita:

• SDG08043: Domestic material consumption unit of measurement

Micro-data access

Accounts are published at the most detailed level.

Other

Not relevant for these statistics.

Confidentiality - policy

The statistics are published at a level that does not require further disaggregation.

Confidentiality - data treatment

Not relevant for these statistics.

Documentation on methodology

• Statistics Denmark (2018): Green National Accounts for Denmark 2015-2016.
• European Commission. Eurostat (2018): Economy Wide Material Flow Accounts Handbook
• Statistics Denmark (2019): How the Danish consumption affects the world’s natural resources
• Eurostat (2024): Documentation of the EU RME model
• Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, World Bank (2012): System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Central Framework.

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.