Botswana vs Panama: Share of global plastic waste imports

Botswana

0.0%

in 2023

Panama

0.0%

in 2024

Botswana rank

113th

Panama rank

110th

Share of global plastic waste imports over time

Panama currently reports 0.0% against 0.0% in Botswana, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.6 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Panama ahead.

Botswana ranks 113th and Panama ranks 110th 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.