ISBN: - 978-93-88936-09-5 From the above table, it is clear that, Thailand occupies first place 48744 tonnes in production of NR sheet in the world level followed by Indonesia at the second place with 38286 tonnes. India has occupied fourth position with 11750 tonnes in NR production. The mean production of NR sheets is higher in the year 2013 than the other study period. India is currently the sixth largest producer of NR in 2015 with a share of 4.7 percent of world production. During 2015, the output in main producing countries viz; Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam increased, whereas production in China and India decreased during 2015. Global SR production during 2015 was 14.46 million tonnes as against 14.179 million tonnes in 2014, registering an increase of 2.0 percent. Further, this table also explain that the Mean, Standard deviation and Correlation, these values are slightly fluctuating during the study period. But the correlation values are shown above 0.5 percent level; there is a highly positive correlation between total world rubber production of main countries and the study period from 2001 to 2015. Year-wise Trends in World Rubber Consumption Global consumption of natural rubber is also witnessing phenomenal increase over the years. Utility of rubber as a raw material for various industrial purposes has augmented the demand for the product. Higher growth of manufacturing sector in developing countries helped the consumption of natural rubber to increase manifold. The following table explains that the World Natural Rubber Consumption from 2001-02 to 2014-15. 68
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