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Cameroon vs Congo: Plastic waste exports

Cameroon
218.22 tonnes
in 2023
Congo
346.11 tonnes
in 2021
Cameroon rank
115th
Congo rank
112th

Plastic waste exports over time

  • Cameroon
  • Congo
02505007501.0k199520092023

How they compare

Congo currently reports 346.11 tonnes against 218.22 tonnes in Cameroon, a difference of 127.89 tonnes.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.6 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 10 shared years of data; in 2007 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 115th and Congo ranks 112th 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.