World total

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Newsprint and other printing and writing paper:
production and consumption

Papier journal et autre papier d’impression et d’écriture:
production et consommation

Papel de periódico y otro papel de imprenta y de escribir:
producción y consumo

MT = Millions of metric tons

MT = Millions de tonnes métriques

MT = Millones de toneladas métricas

Continents, major areas and groups of countries Continents, grandes régions et groupes de pays Continentes, grandes regiones y grupos de países	Year Année Año	Newsprint Papier journal Papel de periódico			Printing and writing paper Papiers d’impression et d’écriture Papeles de imprenta y de escribir
	Year Année Año	Production Production Producción (MT)	Consumption Consommation Consumo (MT)	Consumption per inhabitant Consommation par habitant Consumo por habitante (kg)	Production Production Producción (MT)	Consumption Consommation Consumo (MT)	Consumption per inhabitant Consommation par habitant Consumo por habitante (kg)
World total	1970	21	21	6.0	26	26	7.2
	1975	20	21	5.4	28	28	7.0
	1980	26	26	6.0	39	41	9.4
	1985	28	28	6.0	50	50	10.6
	1990	33	33	6.4	70	70	13.5
	1991	33	32	6.3	71	71	13.5
	1992	32	32	6.3	72	72	13.6
	1993	33	32	6.2	72	72	13.0
	1994	34	34	6.6	82	80	14.4
	1995	35	34	6.1	81	77	13.8
	1996	35	34	6.1	83	81	14.2
	1997	36	35	6.1	90	88	15.1


Africa	1970	0.2	0.3	1.0	0.2	0.4	1.3
	1975	0.2	0.3	0.9	0.2	0.4	1.1
	1980	0.2	0.3	0.8	0.3	0.6	1.4
	1985	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.8	1.5
	1990	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.6	1.0	1.7
	1991	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.6	1.0	1.7
	1992	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.5	1.0	1.5
	1993	0.4	0.5	0.8	0.6	1.1	1.6
	1994	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.6
	1995	0.5	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.8	1.1
	1996	0.5	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.8	1.2
	1997	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.7	1.1	1.5


America	1970	11	11	22.9	11	11	22.1
	1975	11	10	19.8	11	11	20.4
	1980	13	13	21.0	17	17	28.7
	1985	15	14	21.6	21	22	33.4
	1990	16	15	20.7	26	26	37.2
	1991	16	14	22.1	26	26	36.5
	1992	16	14	21.2	26	27	36.9
	1993	16	14	21.8	28	29	38.5
	1994	17	15	22.3	33	34	44.3
	1995	17	14	18.5	31	31	40.4
	1996	16	14	17.5	30	31	39.2
	1997	17	14	18.0	33	33	42.0


Asia	1970	2.5	3.1	1.5	3.9	4.0	1.9
	1975	2.8	3.2	1.4	5.1	5.2	2.2
	1980	3.5	4.6	1.8	7.2	7.5	2.9
	1985	3.8	5.3	1.9	9.7	10	3.6
	1990	5.2	6.8	2.2	17	18	6.0
	1991	5.3	7.2	2.3	18	19	6.2
	1992	5.3	7.6	2.4	19	21	6.3
	1993	5.1	7.5	2.3	17	18	5.5
	1994	5.5	8.1	2.5	19	21	6.1
	1995	6.0	8.5	2.5	20	21	6.2
	1996	6.5	10	2.9	22	24	7.0
	1997	6.8	10	2.9	24	26	7.2

Europe	1970	7.0	6.7	9.6	11	10	14.3
	1975	6.3	6.9	9.5	11	11	14.8
	1980	8.2	7.7	10.3	14	15	20.1
	1985	8.7	7.8	10.2	19	17	22.1
	1990	10	10	12.6	25	23	29.1
	1991	10	10	12.4	25	23	29.1
	1992	9.4	9.4	14.4	25	23	33.9
	1993	10	9.2	13.7	26	23	31.1
	1994	11	10	15.5	29	24	33.1
	1995	12	10	14.5	29	24	32.4
	1996	11	10	13.4	29	24	33.6
	1997	11	9.4	13.1	32	26	36.4


Oceania	1970	0.4	0.5	34.3	0.2	0.3	15.5
	1975	0.4	0.6	36.2	0.2	0.4	20.5
	1980	0.5	0.6	34.3	0.3	0.4	24.4
	1985	0.7	0.8	39.8	0.3	0.6	28.8
	1990	0.7	0.8	35.3	0.5	0.9	44.2
	1991	0.7	0.7	31.6	0.4	0.9	42.1
	1992	0.8	0.7	31.2	0.3	0.8	30.2
	1993	0.8	0.7	34.3	0.3	0.9	33.9
	1994	0.8	0.8	34.0	0.4	1.0	34.9
	1995	0.8	0.9	31.5	0.4	1.2	42.8
	1996	0.8	0.9	30.3	0.4	1.0	34.5
	1997	0.8	0.8	28.2	0.4	1.0	35.8


Developing countries	1970	1.1	2.3	0.9	2.4	3.2	1.3
	1975	1.2	2.2	0.8	3.6	4.2	1.5
	1980	1.6	3.5	1.1	5.6	6.4	2.0
	1985	2.4	4.0	1.1	7.8	8.7	2.4
	1990	3.2	5.0	1.3	11	13	3.2
	1991	3.2	5.3	1.3	12	13	3.3
	1992	3.4	5.5	1.4	12	15	3.6
	1993	3.4	5.8	1.4	10	13	2.9
	1994	3.8	6.4	1.6	13	15	3.4
	1995	4.4	7.2	1.7	13	14	3.2
	1996	4.8	8.3	1.9	15	17	3.8
	1997	5.0	8.5	1.9	17	19	4.1

of which:

Sub-Saharan Africa	1970	0.2	0.3	1.1	0.1	0.3	1.2
	1975	0.2	0.3	1.0	0.1	0.3	0.9
	1980	0.2	0.2	0.7	0.2	0.4	1.1
	1985	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.5	1.1
	1990	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.4	0.6	1.4
	1991	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.4	0.6	1.4
	1992	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.6	1.2
	1993	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.6	1.2
	1994	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.6
	1995	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.9
	1996	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.5	1.0
	1997	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.8	1.4


Arab States	1970	-	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.2	1.4
	1975	-	0.1	0.6	0.1	0.2	1.5
	1980	-	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.4	2.3
	1985	-	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.5	2.5
	1990	-	0.2	0.8	0.2	0.6	2.6
	1991	-	0.2	0.9	0.2	0.6	2.5
	1992	-	0.2	0.9	0.2	0.6	2.6
	1993	-	0.2	1.1	0.2	0.7	3.1
	1994	-	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.7	2.9
	1995	-	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.4	2.0
	1996	-	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.4	1.9
	1997	-	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.5	2.1


Latin America and the Caribbean	1970	0.3	0.8	3.6	0.6	1.0	3.5
	1975	0.3	0.8	2.9	1.0	1.2	3.8
	1980	0.5	1.3	3.5	1.9	2.0	5.8
	1985	0.8	1.3	3.3	2.2	2.2	5.5
	1990	1.0	1.5	3.4	2.4	2.3	5.5
	1991	1.0	1.4	4.0	2.5	2.4	5.5
	1992	0.9	1.2	3.4	2.6	3.0	6.6
	1993	0.8	1.3	3.6	2.8	3.0	6.4
	1994	0.8	1.4	3.8	3.0	3.1	6.7
	1995	0.9	1.8	3.8	3.0	2.9	6.0
	1996	0.9	1.7	3.5	3.1	2.9	6.0
	1997	0.9	1.9	3.9	3.4	3.2	6.5

Eastern Asia and Oceania	1970	0.5	0.8	0.7	0.9	1.1	0.9
	1975	0.6	0.8	0.6	1.6	1.7	1.3
	1980	0.7	1.3	0.9	2.4	2.6	1.8
	1985	0.8	1.7	1.1	3.9	4.2	2.8
	1990	1.2	2.1	1.3	6.9	7.4	4.5
	1991	1.3	2.4	1.4	7.2	7.9	4.7
	1992	1.5	2.7	1.6	8.0	9.0	5.3
	1993	1.7	2.9	1.7	5.6	6.5	3.7
	1994	2.0	3.4	1.9	7.5	8.7	4.9
	1995	2.3	3.6	2.0	7.9	8.6	4.8
	1996	2.9	4.4	2.4	10	11	6.2
	1997	3.1	4.7	2.6	11	12	6.7


Southern Asia	1970	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.8
	1975	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.7	0.8
	1980	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.7	0.8
	1985	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.8	1.0	0.9
	1990	0.4	0.6	0.5	1.1	1.4	1.2
	1991	0.4	0.7	0.6	1.2	1.4	1.2
	1992	0.4	0.7	0.6	1.2	1.5	1.2
	1993	0.4	0.6	0.5	1.3	1.5	1.2
	1994	0.4	0.8	0.6	1.3	1.6	1.3
	1995	0.4	0.8	0.6	1.4	1.6	1.2
	1996	0.4	1.1	0.8	1.4	1.7	1.3
	1997	0.4	1.1	0.8	1.4	1.7	1.2


Least developed countries	1970	0.04	0.1	0.3	0.04	0.1	0.3
	1975	0.02	0.04	0.1	0.05	0.1	0.3
	1980	0.04	0.04