Total chemical consumption
RecordSTO-2WPEFSYQAC-JQT9H2TCVF-T2KPNA
European Union · 2020
Total chemical consumption in the European Union was 270 million tonnes in 2020 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Total consumption of chemicals
- Retrieved
- 18 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumption declined to 270 million tonnes.
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2020). Chemicals production and consumption statistics. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Chemicals_production_and_consumption_statistics. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2WPEFSYQACJQT9H2TCVFT2KPNA
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Chemicals production and consumption statistics." 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Chemicals_production_and_consumption_statistics. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2WPEFSYQACJQT9H2TCVFT2KPNA.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Chemicals production and consumption statistics." 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Chemicals_production_and_consumption_statistics. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2WPEFSYQACJQT9H2TCVFT2KPNA.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2020chemicalt2kpna, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Chemicals production and consumption statistics}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2WPEFSYQACJQT9H2TCVFT2KPNA}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Chemicals\_production\_and\_consumption\_statistics. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Chemicals production and consumption statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Total consumption of chemicals
- Retrieved
- 18 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_2WPEFSYQACJQT9H2TCVFT2KPNA