The line graph depicts market demand for 4 means of textiles: Polyester, Cotton, Cellulosic and Wood in million tons around the globe between years 1980 and 2015.
Overall, vitality of all categories experienced increase, except for wool. Highest growth was reported for polyester, which reached 14 times bigger numbers comparing ones at the beginning of the period.
In detail, in 1980, Cotton was the most used material with approximately 13 M tons, while total amount demanded for Wool was mere 2 M at the global market. Second most demanded product was Polyester, whose distribution to the world figured for around 5 M tons, just above Cellulosic that businesses around the globe purchased 4 M tons.
In the following years all of the categories show different trends that resulted in changes in terms of dominance in the market. Market demand for Polyester showed dramatic increase and exceeded that of Cotton in 1995, and it ended the period with just below 70 M tons. Although there was slight increasing trend of quantity needed for Cotton, it figured for around 32 M tons, numbers two times less compared to Polyester. When it comes to Cellulosic and Wood, their number fluctuated around 4 till the beginning of new millennium, later showing opposite trends and having a demand of around 10 and 1 respectively.