Plastic Waste Exports per Person

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Historical data · 2024

Source: UN Comtrade, via Our World in Data ↗
Reference period: 2024Dataset updated Oct 18, 2026. The badge reflects the reference year, not the update date.
Definition: Reported exports of plastic waste and scrap per person in one year. Covers customs code HS 3915 and countries that reported trade data.
Unit: kg per person per year
Coverage & value range: Worldwide · 88 listed countries and territoriesValues: 0.0 kg to 54.7 kg
Ranking direction: Highest value first (descending)#1 is the highest listed value, not necessarily the best outcome.

Source notes: Customs code HS 3915 only. Missing reports and plastic waste traded under other codes are excluded; latest single year, without filling gaps from earlier years.

Coverage describes this list, not necessarily the full population. Missing entries do not imply a value of zero. Collection & methodology →

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Europe · 37

Oceania · 3

Americas · 19

Africa · 8

Asia · 21

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (kg per person per year); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇸🇮Slovenia

54.7 kg

🇧🇪Belgium

30.8 kg

🇳🇱Netherlands

30.6 kg

🇮🇸Iceland

19.6 kg

🇱🇺Luxembourg

14.6 kg

🇩🇰Denmark

14.6 kg

🇮🇪Ireland

13.5 kg

🇭🇷Croatia

13.5 kg

🇳🇴Norway

12.3 kg

🇪🇪Estonia

12.1 kg

🇸🇪Sweden

11.6 kg

🇨🇿Czechia

10.7 kg

🇱🇻Latvia

10.0 kg

🇨🇭Switzerland

9.7 kg

🇲🇹Malta

8.4 kg

🇸🇰Slovakia

7.5 kg

🇨🇾Cyprus

7.4 kg

🇬🇷Greece

6.3 kg

🇱🇹Lithuania

5.7 kg

🇯🇵Japan

5.5 kg

🇳🇿New Zealand

5.2 kg

🇵🇹Portugal

5.1 kg

🇫🇮Finland

4.4 kg

🇧🇧Barbados

4.0 kg

🇵🇱Poland

3.6 kg

🇲🇰North Macedonia

2.7 kg

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

2.7 kg

🇮🇱Israel

2.6 kg

🇧🇬Bulgaria

2.3 kg

🇲🇺Mauritius

1.9 kg

🇲🇻Maldives

1.5 kg

🇸🇻El Salvador

1.4 kg

🇧🇿Belize

1.2 kg

🇳🇦Namibia

1.1 kg

🇦🇺Australia

1.0 kg

🇵🇦Panama

1.0 kg

🇭🇰Hong Kong

0.9 kg

🇵🇭Philippines

0.9 kg

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

0.8 kg

🇲🇪Montenegro

0.8 kg

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

0.8 kg

🇸🇷Suriname

0.7 kg

🇿🇦South Africa

0.7 kg

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

0.6 kg

🇬🇹Guatemala

0.4 kg

🇨🇱Chile

0.3 kg

🇷🇸Serbia

0.3 kg

🇲🇴Macau

0.3 kg

🇪🇨Ecuador

0.2 kg

🇬🇪Georgia

0.2 kg

Highlights

As of 2024, Slovenia ranks first with 54.7 kg, followed by Belgium (30.8 kg) and Netherlands (30.6 kg).

Slovenia is 1.8 times higher than Belgium, the runner-up.

Across 88 countries and territories, values run from 54.7 kg (Slovenia) to 0.0 kg (United States), with a median of 0.5 kg.

All of the top 10 are in Europe.

Source: UN Comtrade, via Our World in Data, 2024. Unit: kg per person per year.

Source: UN Comtrade, via Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) · fetched Oct 18, 2026 — Customs code HS 3915 only. Missing reports and plastic waste traded under other codes are excluded; latest single year, without filling gaps from earlier years.

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Highlights

As of 2024, Slovenia ranks first with 54.7 kg, followed by Belgium (30.8 kg) and Netherlands (30.6 kg).

Slovenia is 1.8 times higher than Belgium, the runner-up.

Across 88 countries and territories, values run from 54.7 kg (Slovenia) to 0.0 kg (United States), with a median of 0.5 kg.

All of the top 10 are in Europe.

Source: UN Comtrade, via Our World in Data, 2024. Unit: kg per person per year.