Lithuania vs Romania: Share of global plastic waste imports

Lithuania

2.2%

in 2024

Romania

1.2%

in 2024

Lithuania rank

16th

Romania rank

19th

Share of global plastic waste imports over time

Lithuania currently reports 2.2% against 1.2% in Romania, a difference of 0.9%.

That makes Lithuania's figure about 1.8 times Romania's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Lithuania ahead.

Lithuania ranks 16th and Romania ranks 19th 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.