environmental2022

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.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database34 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
27.9%
Median: 27.4%
Countries Covered
34
with available data
Highest
Italy
58.9%
Lowest
Benin
0.2%
Top 5 Countries
1Italy58.9%
2Slovenia55.3%
3Latvia52.2%
4Lithuania48.1%
5Germany47.0%
By Region
Key Findings
  • 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

Low (0.2%)High (58.9%)

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
1Italy58.9%
2Slovenia55.3%
3Latvia52.2%
4Lithuania48.1%
5Germany47.0%
6Finland43.7%
7Croatia38.0%
8Spain37.4%
9Belgium33.9%
10Slovakia33.9%
11Estonia32.8%
12Denmark31.2%
13Norway30.8%
14Luxembourg30.8%
15Portugal28.6%
16Switzerland28.5%
17Netherlands28.1%
18Poland26.7%
19Bulgaria26.6%
20United Kingdom26.2%
21Hungary24.9%
22Oman23.7%
23France23.5%
24Iceland23.3%
25Sweden20.9%
26Cyprus19.4%
27Albania18.9%
28Serbia18.4%
29Malta12.9%
30Romania7.4%
31Israel7.1%
32Costa Rica4.6%
33Montenegro4.3%
34Benin0.2%
Showing 34 of 34 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2022).

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