Eu Chemicals Production By Hazard Class Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

The Eurostat Production and Consumption of Chemicals by Hazard Class (env_chmhaz) dataset is the official answer. Eurostat disseminates it as table env_chmhaz - literally titled "Production and consumption of chemicals by hazard class" - reachable through the databrowser at ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/env_chmhaz/default/table, and Datadory catalogs it under Diversified Chemicals with a quality score of 8 out of 10 against a catalog-wide average of 7.81 across all 1,744 datasets. That score places it inside the 62.8 percent of cataloged datasets scoring 8 or higher.

The tonnages are derived rather than surveyed. Eurostat compiles the series from Prodcom manufacturing statistics and foreign-trade sources, which means a hazard-class figure you quote reconciles with the same statistical system feeding Cefic's European chemical industry statistics.

The hazard dimension is what separates this table from the other 16 primary Diversified Chemicals datasets in the catalog. One ladder descends from the hazardous-and-non-hazardous total through plain hazardous, hazardous to health, most harmful substances for health (dimension code HLTH_MHS), substances of concern for health and other hazardous substances for health. A second, parallel ladder repeats the entire structure for hazards to the environment. The indic_env dimension then flips every rung between production and consumption, so each class yields two series rather than one.

Sample rows show how a value reads. EU-27 consumption of chemicals hazardous to the environment measured 84.0 million tonnes in 2004, 84.1 in 2005, 82.2 in 2006 and 85.2 in 2007 - a flat-to-firm band of roughly 82 to 85 million tonnes across those four years. Every figure arrives under unit code MIO_T, defined as million tonnes, so an observation of 84.0 means 84 million tonnes consumed. Descriptions that loosely say "tonnes" should always be read against MIO_T when you quote them; Datadory's research notes flag exactly this trap for anyone citing the series in a report.

Across the Atlantic, the Census Bureau International Trade Data API covers border flows monthly under commercial delivery terms with HS2-HS10 breakdowns by partner country, customs district, port and state, while TRI covers facility accountability. Market researchers comparing the EU hazard mix over two decades start with env_chmhaz, as laid out on the market researchers page; investors tracking hazardous production-and-consumption balances use the same table, per the investors and quants workflow. The table below lines up the five sources:

Start with the diversified chemicals data guide, which maps all 21 pooled datasets for the industry and shows where the hazard-class tonnage series fits beside regulatory, feedstock and machine-learning sources. To browse the records themselves, open the diversified-chemicals data hub, the free diversified-chemicals datasets list or the ranked best diversified-chemicals datasets. The closest companions to this page are the Eurostat env_chmhaz dataset record itself and the US-side counterpart on US chemical imports by HS code.