The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32.
The same held true for post-World War II rebuilding of Japan and Germany, also coming off a much lower per capita income and consumption base.
Between 2002 and 2011, states without efficiency goals exhibited an average increase in per-capita electricity consumption of 9%, while states with efficiency goals had a per-capita increase of only 5%.
Watch countries exposed to runaway food price inflation such as those with a low GDP per capita and a very high percentage of food relative to total household consumption.
Americans consume about fifty gallons of soda a year, more than four times the average per-capita consumption sixty years ago.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest.
On a per capita basis that would still be less than a quarter of US consumption.
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Head towards emerging markets where per capita consumption is still very low but increasing at a fairly steady pace.
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The country's per capita beer consumption is the highest in Latin America, about 20 gallons a year.
Wealth and Footprint size: The higher the income of a country, the greater was its demand for ecological resources and services (and the higher its per capita consumption).
It is already becoming more of a middle income country in terms of per capita income compared to other Asian nations, and it is unlikely that Chinese consumption can make up for the decline in exports to Europe, something many investors are hoping for.
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