The Daily Populous Friday January 17th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by ourworldindata.org and submitted by eortizospina

Global cement production grew rapidly through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. In the decade from 2003 to 2013 alone, production doubled from 2 to 4 billion tonnes.

But, as you can see in the chart, this growth has stalled in the last 10 years. There has been some variation from year to year, but overall, global production has stayed around 4 billion tonnes. This data comes from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

China was a significant driver of global growth in the 1990s and 2000s but has also reached a plateau in production. It now produces more than half of the world’s cement.

Cement production makes up around 7% of global CO 2 emissions.

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Cheap-Dimension8782 on January 17th, 2025 at 16:23 UTC »

Didn't they default on their payment to Indian electricity companies quite recently?

MaintenanceFickle945 on January 17th, 2025 at 13:53 UTC »

FUCK BANGLADESH I DON’T CARE

No actually I’m kidding I’m really happy for Bangladesh reaching this important milestone.

Kwinza on January 17th, 2025 at 12:17 UTC »

Welcome to 1920 Bangladesh!

But no in all seriousness this is good news for a huge amount of people.