Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators

► Embodied HANPP indicates impacts of biomass consumption on ecological energy flows. ► We performed a cross-country analysis of eHANPP, resource indicators and their drivers. ► Indicators of resource flows are correlated among each other but not with eHANPP. ► Contrary to final biomass consumption, eHANPP is not correlated with GDP. ► Resource endowment (area availability) has a strong effect on per-capita eHANPP.