The data displays the leading countries worldwide by consumption of natural rubber from 2013 to 2017. Japan ranked fifth in 2017, where around 679,000 metric tons of natural rubber were consumed that year. The U.S. is the world's third biggest consumer of natural rubber.
Natural rubber
Natural rubber comes from the Pará rubber tree, or the sharinga tree, commonly referred to as simply the rubber tree. It has many uses due to being highly waterproof, resilient, and stretchy. Accordingly, the global consumption of natural rubber is considerable.
