Paper Use is Growing Worldwide

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Annual Per Capita Paper and Paperboard Consumption

Globlly, paper consumption has increased by a factor of 20 this century and has tripled over the past several decades. For more information see http://www.wri.org/trends/paperwk.html.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), State of the World’s Forests 1997 (FAO, Rome, 1997), p. 191.