France vs Lithuania: Share of global plastic waste imports

France
2.9%
in 2024
Lithuania
2.2%
in 2024
France rank
14th
Lithuania rank
16th

Share of global plastic waste imports over time

  • France
  • Lithuania
0123199420092024

How they compare

France currently reports 2.9% against 2.2% in Lithuania, a difference of 0.7%.

That makes France's figure about 1.3 times Lithuania's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1994 it was France ahead.

France ranks 14th and Lithuania ranks 16th of 183 countries.

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About this data

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