What is a SANKEY diagram (+ examples) ??

You might have have seen these weird diagrams before in circular economy or material flow analysis studies and wondered what they are and what do they mean?

These diagrams are called Sankey diagrams! They show flows, their origin and destination as well as their proportion. They enable to have a synthetic overview of the flows entering and exiting the economy and show their proportions.

Example 1 - Material Flow of the EU-27 economy

Example 2 - Material flow of the Global economy

Example 3&4 - Catalogues of Sankey diagrams

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[VladBunea]

Very very cool! Lots to learn from your channel. Must watch all your videos now. 😀

[nthako]

your explanation is so simple to understand, thank you 😄❤

[entrepriseovale]

great learning. Would advisable to telle what are the units? I assume this is per year. Where do the accumulation material go?

[rovingwaves]

A video on the basics of the Circular Economy and / or its history would be useful !

[Taxont]

What software was this graph created in?