Municipal waste recycling rate
Compare municipal waste recycling rate across 34 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2022 UN SDG Global Database slice.
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Key Insights
- •34 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2022 observation in the selected slice.
- •Italy has the highest published value (58.91811 %).
- •Benin has the lowest published value (0.15579 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 27.9%)
About This Statistic
Proportion of municipal waste recycled, expressed as a percentage of municipal waste generated under the reporting system for SDG indicator 12.5.1.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
Proportion of municipal waste recycled, expressed as a percentage of municipal waste generated under the reporting system for SDG indicator 12.5.1.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 58.9% |
| 2 | Slovenia | 55.3% |
| 3 | Latvia | 52.2% |
| 4 | Lithuania | 48.1% |
| 5 | Germany | 47.0% |
| 6 | Finland | 43.7% |
| 7 | Croatia | 38.0% |
| 8 | Spain | 37.4% |
| 9 | Belgium | 33.9% |
| 10 | Slovakia | 33.9% |
| 11 | Estonia | 32.8% |
| 12 | Denmark | 31.2% |
| 13 | Norway | 30.8% |
| 14 | Luxembourg | 30.8% |
| 15 | Portugal | 28.6% |
| 16 | Switzerland | 28.5% |
| 17 | Netherlands | 28.1% |
| 18 | Poland | 26.7% |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 26.6% |
| 20 | United Kingdom | 26.2% |
| 21 | Hungary | 24.9% |
| 22 | Oman | 23.7% |
| 23 | France | 23.5% |
| 24 | Iceland | 23.3% |
| 25 | Sweden | 20.9% |
| 26 | Cyprus | 19.4% |
| 27 | Albania | 18.9% |
| 28 | Serbia | 18.4% |
| 29 | Malta | 12.9% |
| 30 | Romania | 7.4% |
| 31 | Israel | 7.1% |
| 32 | Costa Rica | 4.6% |
| 33 | Montenegro | 4.3% |
| 34 | Benin | 0.2% |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2022).
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