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Benin vs Lesotho: Plastic waste exports

Benin
40.36 tonnes
in 2023
Lesotho
31.01 tonnes
in 2021
Benin rank
126th
Lesotho rank
129th

Plastic waste exports over time

  • Benin
  • Lesotho
0200400600199820102023

How they compare

Benin currently reports 40.36 tonnes against 31.01 tonnes in Lesotho, a difference of 9.35 tonnes.

That makes Benin's figure about 1.3 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 16 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 126th and Lesotho ranks 129th of 167 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Plastic waste exports
Unit
tonnes
Source
United Nations Comtrade Database (2025); United Nations Comtrade Database (2023) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
167 places, 3,957 data points, 1988–2024
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The amount of plastic waste a country exports to other countries, measured in tonnes per year.