The expansion of the global construction and mining machinery industry is forecast to reach 9.3% p.a. in the coming years. Between 2007 and 2013 the market increased with an average annual growth of 10.5%. Currently, excavators, shovel loaders, and mechanical shovels account for 22.9% of the global demand while the remaining market share is divided between off-highway dumpers (7%), mineral, stone and ore screening, sorting, separating, washing, grinding, crushing, kneading and mixing machinery (6.4%), bulldozers and angledozers (2.9%), self-propelled graders and levellers (2%), rock/coal cutters and tunnelling machinery (1.9%), self-propelled road rollers and tamping machines (19.%), track-laying tractors (crawlers) (1%), mortar and concrete mixers (0.9%), pile-extractors and pile-drivers (0.4%), scrapers (0.3%), mine elevators and conveyors (0.2%) and other construction and mining machinery (15.4%). Parts of construction and mining machinery account for 36.9% of the demand. Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and the United States represent the largest construction and mining machinery markets while the strongest annual growth is forecast to occur in Greece (20.6%), Latvia (20.3%), Portugal (19.1%), Ireland (17.5%), and Turkey (15.9%).