Stocked construction materials exist not only on the surface but in the subsurface. Stocked materials on the surface, such as buildings, are easy to recognize and control by law, but stocked subsurface materials are hard to handle and even harder to quantify. But the change in subsurface by construction causes a change in composition of the soil. These physical changes in subsurface material influence urban environmental problems, such as heat island effects and urban climate changes. Therefore quantifying urban material stock and unveiling the input history of construction materials to the subsurface could provide a new basic dataset for urban area assessment. On regional/national scale, subsurface construction material is estimated based on statistical data. In this paper, total mass of surface/subsurface material stock is estimated over time, by country, by region, and by city. The results of national scale analysis indicated that the overall average of material stock density in 2004 is 125,842 tons per km(2): including 58,726 tons per km(2) for surface and 67,116 tons per km(2) for sub-surface, furthermore, 109.4 tons per capita as a national average. This concentration increased 2.14 times over the 30 years from 1975 to 2004. On an urban scale, a historical GIS database can identify the age and scale of structures and so help to quantify the metabolism patterns on the further studies.