In terms of regional shares in the OECD area, OECD Europe’s share of consumption is slightly higher than the region’s share of extraction, while the inverse if tme for the OECD America region. The OECD Asia-Oceania region’s share of consumption is the same as its share of extraction. Average income plays a particularly important role. Most of these countries experienced a strong upswing in material extraction starting the early 2000s, although China’s surge began much earlier. By the early 1990s China had overtaken the United States as the world’s largest extractor of material resources.