Note that the 2008 figure has been estimated to be 1.45 billion tons, up from 1.35 billion in 2007. The Cement Authority
The current production rate in the world is about 3 billion tons per year. That's equivalent to you carrying around 1000 pounds of new cement every year!
(First Graph = aggregate; second graph = per capita)
5 MT per capita
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