What is the most manufactured good in the world?
 

Toilet paper?
cigarettes?
cotton fabric?

matches? (if you count them individually)

what about staples? screws?

What about pound for pound?

probably PS3 controllers hey

pornography

babies

love

freakin' hippy.

pencils? pens? confetti? 35 cent wings on Wednesdays?

that is a good question, that I am sure the United Nations Statistics Division World Industrial Commodities Year Book can answer, but unfortunately there is no PDF version, only a $500 CD set to order, so we might never know the answer to this burning question. if you ask me, I'd say it has to do with sugar production myself.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/industry/publications.asp

sugars a pretty damn good guess man

I myself consume between two and eight ounced of sugar everyday.

Transistors?

ummmm
thread.

Carbon Dioxide and Viagra - Its self-perpetuating

If we are talking numbers and not mass and including microchips you're probably right.

is energy a "manufactured good?" ...clean water?

if not.... i'd have to go with concrete. ...but that's because sometimes i build things out of it. and i'm fairly certain it's one of the things that everyone everywhere else also does. if you want to call concrete a raw material even though it's not*... then fine. is an apartment building a manufactured good?:rolleyes:

wiki says:
As of 2006 about seven billion cubic meters of concrete are made each year – more than one cubic meter for every person on Earth.






*has to be produced near or onsite. cannot be shipped long distances wet - it will solidify. economically doesn't make sense to ship dry - it's mostly sand and gravel, find those anywhere. has to be used within 24 hours or becomes waste material to be crushed for a future batch of fresh concrete. like the milk and eggs of the construction world.

bread/naan/pita/arepa/tortilla/baked goods in general

Methamphetamine.

I do know that an inordinate percentage of the world's wood is taken up by shipping pallets.

how do they ship the shipping pallets? do they just stack them up on a pallet? i am very interested in these meta-pallets.