The world largest producer of paper

Do you know that which country is the world's largest?

Based on the research, the United States, followed by Canada, Finland, Japan, and Sweden, is the world’s largest producer of paper and paper products (newspapers, boxes, etc). That doesn’t come much as a surprise, given that industrialized nations, with 20 percent of the world’s population, consume about 87 percent of the world’s printing and writing papers.

The U.S. consumption of paper and paperboard in 1999 was approximately 354 kilograms (about 800 pounds) per person.

In 1997 the total world paper and paperboard production was 299,044 metric tons. It would take about 200,000 Volkswagen Beetle cars to equal this weight. 

In the last 20 years, the combined usage of today’s top ten paper users has increased from 92 million tons to 208 million, which is a growth of 126%. So the use of computers is not slowing the amount paper we use.


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