Global Machine Tool Survey 2011 Patterns of Consumption
Per-Capita Consumption Country
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Switzerland Korea, Rep. of Germany Taiwan Austria
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Japan Italy Sweden Canada China
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
2011 Population Spend Consumption 000s $/capita $-Millions 1,240.7 7,604 $163.16 5,131.0 48,508 $105.78 6,956.0 82,329 $84.49 1,800.0 22,974 $78.35 632.2 8,215 $76.95 7,620.5 2,963.3 372.8 1,143.6 38,370.0
127,078 58,126 9,059 33,487 1,323,591
$59.97 $50.98 $41.16 $34.15 $28.99
Belgium Czech Republic Finland United States Netherlands
301.9 291.0 128.0 6,611.9 328.3
10,414 10,211 5,250 307,212 16,715
$28.99 $28.50 $24.38 $21.52 $19.64
France Turkey Mexico Spain Romania
1,182.5 1,285.0 1,360.9 451.5 243.0
64,420 76,805 111,211 40,525 22,215
$18.36 $16.73 $12.24 $11.14 $10.94
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Brazil Portugal Russia United Kingdom Australia
1,990.0 104.3 1,317.0 561.7 167.0
198,739 10,707 140,041 61,113 21,262
$10.01 $9.75 $9.40 $9.19 $7.85
26. 27. 28.
Denmark Argentina India
43.1 211.5 2,352.0
5,500 40,913 1,156,897
$7.84 $5.17 $2.03
Source: Gardner Publications, Inc.
of trade in machine tools. The largest exporters typically top the trade-balance rankings, and the largest importers are at the bottom. At a minus-$ 2.5 billion for 2011, American trade balance worsened dramatically from a negative-$ 975 million in 2010. The US has the second-poorest balance after China among countries that have domestic machine-toolproducing industries. Dollar-volume balance in machine-tool trade for 2011 is seen in the table below. Compared to 2010, the largest increases in positive trade balance were made by usual-leader Japan and by Germany, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
Another, perhaps more subtle, pattern emerges: one of consolidation. In 2011 the top five consumer countries accounted for installing 70 per cent of surveyed world output. By contrast, in 1995 the top five—namely the US, Germany, Japan, China, and Italy, in that order—purchased only 55 per cent of total surveyed output. One more way of looking at consumption is the amount each country spends compared to its population (right). Switzerland, at $163/Swiss, tops the list and has led for decades. China, with 1.3-billion people, not long ago had ranked with India at the bottom and now is in the middle.
If machine tools are the basic building blocks of manufacturing-based societies, then the rate at which a country installs new ones ought to say something about its pace of industrialization. For the past decade China has led the world in acquisition. For 2011 the pattern continues, and as the pie chart above shows, more than two-fifths of the output by value of the world’s machine-tool producers has been put in place on Chinese factory floors.
Source: Gardner Publications, Inc.
Imports Country
2011 (est.) $-Millions
2010 (rev.) $-Millions
Change in local currency
Change in U.S. dollars
Imports* as % of ‘11 cnsmptn
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
China, Peoples Rep. United States Germany India Korea, Rep. of
13,070.0 4,324.8 2,921.5 1,804.0 1,791.0
9,420.0 2,532.9 1,909.7 1,285.0 1,444.0
$ $ 46% 40% $
39% 71% 53% 40% 24%
34% 65% 42% 77% 35%
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Mexico Brazil Italy Russia Turkey
c1,269.1 1,224.4 1,182.5 1,118.0 1,030.0
c936.3 1,124.3 915.1 1,006.0 690.7
$ $ 23% 11% 49%
36% 9% 29% 11% 49%
93% 62% 40% 85% 80%
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
France Taiwan Belgium Canada Switzerland
998.9 800.0 797.2 c770.5 733.1
701.9 706.0 597.3 c566.5 514.0
35% 13% 27% $ 21%
42% 13% 33% 36% 43%
84% 44% 264% 67% 59%
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
United Kingdom Japan Austria Netherlands Sweden
722.2 648.0 450.6 411.8 333.9
544.6 435.6 345.9 340.4 264.9
28% 35% 24% 15% 20%
33% 49% 30% 21% 26%
129% 9% 71% 125% 90%
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Czech Republic Spain Romania Argentina Australia
318.0 317.2 u285.7 189.6 144.0
199.0 277.7 285.7 128.3 195.1
60% 9% $ $ $
60% 14% 0% 48% -26%
109% 70% 118% 90% 86%
100.2 80.7 62.6
86.1 92.7 59.6
11% -17% 0%
16% -13% 5%
78% 77% 145%
26. Finland 27. Portugal 28. Denmark
* = includes machines imported for re-export u = unrevised from previous year but converted at current rates. c = circa; rough estimate from fragmentary reports. $ = reported in U.S. dollars. Source: Gardner Publications, Inc.
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