Municipal waste treated by landfill
Compare municipal waste treated by landfill across 60 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2023 official-source slice.
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Key Insights
- •60 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2023 observation.
- •South Africa has the highest published value (6240704436 tonnes).
- •Liechtenstein has the lowest published value (0 tonnes).
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: 106,369,964.8tonnes)
About This Statistic
National quantity of municipal waste treated by landfill during the reference year, using the landfill treatment slice of official SDG series EN_MWT_TREATV.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
National quantity of municipal waste treated by landfill during the reference year, using the landfill treatment slice of official SDG series EN_MWT_TREATV.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 6,240,704,436.0tonnes |
| 2 | People's Republic of China | 18,926,000.0tonnes |
| 3 | Kuwait | 13,719,000.0tonnes |
| 4 | Spain | 10,793,000.0tonnes |
| 5 | France | 7,654,000.0tonnes |
| 6 | Chile | 7,405,569.0tonnes |
| 7 | Australia | 6,484,746.0tonnes |
| 8 | Ukraine | 5,944,500.0tonnes |
| 9 | Israel | 4,657,366.2tonnes |
| 10 | Italy | 4,599,000.0tonnes |
| 11 | Romania | 4,407,000.0tonnes |
| 12 | Greece | 4,389,000.0tonnes |
| 13 | Poland | 4,067,000.0tonnes |
| 14 | Hong Kong | 3,973,000.0tonnes |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 3,563,499.4tonnes |
| 16 | New Zealand | 3,510,000.0tonnes |
| 17 | Qatar | 3,027,000.0tonnes |
| 18 | Portugal | 3,019,000.0tonnes |
| 19 | Kazakhstan | 2,899,900.0tonnes |
| 20 | Belarus | 2,568,300.0tonnes |
| 21 | Czech Republic | 2,473,000.0tonnes |
| 22 | Serbia | 2,461,000.0tonnes |
| 23 | Malaysia | 2,239,800.0tonnes |
| 24 | Hungary | 2,232,000.0tonnes |
| 25 | Azerbaijan | 2,160,000.0tonnes |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 2,073,000.0tonnes |
| 27 | Kenya | 2,033,600.0tonnes |
| 28 | Bulgaria | 1,397,000.0tonnes |
| 29 | Costa Rica | 1,342,010.0tonnes |
| 30 | Slovakia | 993,000.0tonnes |
| 31 | Croatia | 950,000.0tonnes |
| 32 | Trinidad and Tobago | 736,014.0tonnes |
| 33 | Albania | 647,000.0tonnes |
| 34 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 622,000.0tonnes |
| 35 | Mauritius | 514,140.0tonnes |
| 36 | Germany | 486,000.0tonnes |
| 37 | Armenia | 433,300.0tonnes |
| 38 | Cyprus | 381,000.0tonnes |
| 39 | Montenegro | 332,000.0tonnes |
| 40 | Malta | 246,000.0tonnes |
| 41 | Norway | 214,000.0tonnes |
| 42 | Austria | 124,000.0tonnes |
| 43 | Netherlands | 116,000.0tonnes |
| 44 | Fiji | 110,190.5tonnes |
| 45 | Macao | 108,500.0tonnes |
| 46 | Slovenia | 103,000.0tonnes |
| 47 | Lithuania | 100,000.0tonnes |
| 48 | Denmark | 81,000.0tonnes |
| 49 | Iceland | 62,000.0tonnes |
| 50 | Sweden | 46,000.0tonnes |
| 51 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 26,415.6tonnes |
| 52 | Luxembourg | 14,000.0tonnes |
| 53 | Finland | 13,000.0tonnes |
| 54 | Belgium | 9,000.0tonnes |
| 55 | Suriname | 4,600.0tonnes |
| 56 | Estonia | 3,000.0tonnes |
| 57 | Liechtenstein | 0.0tonnes |
| 58 | Monaco | 0.0tonnes |
| 59 | Switzerland | 0.0tonnes |
| 60 | Andorra | 0.0tonnes |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2023).
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