Australia vs Cyprus: Share of global plastic waste imports

Australia

0.2%

in 2024

Cyprus

0.2%

in 2024

Australia rank

37th

Cyprus rank

39th

Share of global plastic waste imports over time

Australia currently reports 0.2% against 0.2% in Cyprus, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 33 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 37th and Cyprus ranks 39th of 183 countries.

Indicator: Share of global plastic waste imports
Unit: %
Source: United Nations Comtrade Database (2025); United Nations Comtrade Database (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 183 places, 4,496 data points, 1988–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The percentage of global plastic waste imports that a country accounts for.