Supply and Use Tables

Supply-Use tables provide the key accounting mechanism to ensure that there is coherence between the various sources of data and approaches countries use to estimate GDP – expenditure, output and income.

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The supply table describes the origin of goods and services in the economy by industry (when produced domestically) and imports. The use table describes the destination of goods and services by type of use, distinguishing between intermediate consumption (use of a product as an input into a production process) and various categories of final demand such as consumption, investment and exports.

These datasets give information by industry (at the 2 digit ISIC Rev 4 level: 89 industries) with corresponding breakdowns by product (using the comparable European CPA product breakdown). There are various types of supply and use tables differing in their scope and price concept (basic prices or purchasers’ prices.)

In addition, several complementary tables are provided that describe the differences between the two price concepts consisting of trade and transport margins, taxes and subsidies on products, as well as Value Added Tax. Due to their granularity, supply and use tables allow to derive a range of indicators and thereby have the potential to inform a wide range of policy areas.

The Use table at basic prices can be split into a Domestic Use table and an Import Use table (also called imports matrix). The ratio of import use to total use is an important indicator of the dependency of an economy on imports relative to domestic supply.

Showing the dependencies on imports relative to domestic supply can help to understand better how important supply chains are to domestic production and consumption. Explore below the visualisations looking at the dependency by product to compare for a selected country the share of imports by product, and for a selected product, the share of imports by country as well as the 2 visualisations looking at the dependency by industry to compare for a selected country the share of imports by industry, and for a selected industry the share of imports by country.

These visualisations present these relationships in 2015, and in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, pandemic. Therefore they show the impacts of supply chain shocks on domestic production and consumption

Lastest figures SUT indicators about dependency by product and by industry

This chart shows SUT indicators about the dependencies on imports relative to domestic supply. They have been calculated as the ratio between import Use table and total Use table at basic prices.

Please note that not all countries calculate the breakdown between imports and domestic supply every year. When this data is not available, a "No data to display" message appears on the corresponding graphs

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External blog

Cameroon and Senegal join the OECD Supply and Use databases

oecdstatistics.blog

19 December 2022

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