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Botswana vs Peru: Plastic waste exports

Botswana
662.47 tonnes
in 2023
Peru
736.57 tonnes
in 2024
Botswana rank
103rd
Peru rank
100th

Plastic waste exports over time

  • Botswana
  • Peru
01.0k2.0k3.0k199420092024

How they compare

Peru currently reports 736.57 tonnes against 662.47 tonnes in Botswana, a difference of 74.1 tonnes.

That makes Peru's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Peru ahead.

Botswana ranks 103rd and Peru ranks 100th 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.