Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, per square kilometre by country
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
184
Highest
598.25 t per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0.001 t per square kilometre
Chad
Median
0.5974 t per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,150
What the numbers show
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, per square kilometre is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 598.25 t per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0.001 t per square kilometre in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 0.5974 t per square kilometre, and the mean is 7.78 t per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 99 countries rose and 82 fell. The largest increase was in South Sudan (up 12,004.3%), and the largest decrease in Burundi (down 88.7%).
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 598.25 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 67.8% | volatile |
| 2 | Belgium | 86.33 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.0% | falling |
| 3 | Bahrain | 65.72 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 47.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Malta | 59.92 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Gibraltar | 40.1 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 313.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Luxembourg | 34.02 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.1% | flat |
| 7 | Seychelles | 28.77 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 390.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Bermuda | 27.98 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | rising |
| 9 | Germany | 23.85 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Slovenia | 21.11 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Israel | 19.94 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Czechia | 18.53 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 13 | Denmark | 17.33 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.0% | rising |
| 14 | Mauritius | 15.98 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.1% | volatile |
| 15 | United Arab Emirates | 15.84 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Italy | 15.36 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.2% | volatile |
| 17 | Poland | 14.95 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Switzerland | 13.67 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Maldives | 13.56 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Austria | 13.38 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12.5 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Saint Martin (French part) | 11.74 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Lebanon | 11.29 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 41.0% | volatile |
| 24 | El Salvador | 8.97 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Barbados | 8.81 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 58.7% | volatile |
| 26 | Portugal | 8.77 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Hungary | 8.32 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.2% | volatile |
| 28 | Costa Rica | 8.19 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Slovakia | 8.03 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.0% | rising |
| 30 | France | 7.82 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.8% | volatile |
| 31 | Saint Lucia | 7.47 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.3% | volatile |
| 32 | Kuwait | 7.04 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Dominican Republic | 6.58 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Bangladesh | 6.35 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 73.6% | volatile |
| 35 | Aruba | 6.27 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.0% | rising |
| 36 | Croatia | 6.19 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 37 | Sri Lanka | 5.87 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Greece | 5.74 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Guatemala | 5.51 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.6% | volatile |
| 40 | Cayman Islands | 5.41 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 83.7% | volatile |
| 41 | Spain | 5.23 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.4% | volatile |
| 42 | Cyprus | 5.08 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 43 | Serbia | 4.99 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 44 | British Virgin Islands | 4.88 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 117.9% | volatile |
| 45 | Ireland | 4.74 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.6% | rising |
| 46 | Qatar | 4.66 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.6% | volatile |
| 47 | Lithuania | 4.27 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 48 | Philippines | 4.04 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 67.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Bulgaria | 3.43 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.8% | volatile |
| 50 | Malaysia | 3.32 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 30.7% | volatile |
| 51 | Andorra | 3.15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 107.1% | volatile |
| 52 | Romania | 3.15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.8% | volatile |
| 53 | Palestine | 3.07 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 70.4% | falling |
| 54 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2.89 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 41.0% | volatile |
| 55 | Jamaica | 2.88 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 56 | Jordan | 2.8 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 33.5% | volatile |
| 57 | North Macedonia | 2.7 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 58 | Japan | 2.66 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 54.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Estonia | 2.53 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.6% | rising |
| 60 | Grenada | 2.31 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.9% | volatile |
| 61 | Latvia | 2.3 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 24.6% | rising |
| 62 | Thailand | 2.15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.1% | volatile |
| 63 | Fiji | 1.99 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 84.7% | volatile |
| 64 | Mexico | 1.86 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 13.7% | volatile |
| 65 | Armenia | 1.83 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 98.6% | volatile |
| 66 | Nauru | 1.75 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.9% | rising |
| 67 | Cambodia | 1.74 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 174.3% | volatile |
| 68 | Morocco | 1.71 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 160.8% | volatile |
| 69 | Honduras | 1.7 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.3% | volatile |
| 70 | Sweden | 1.66 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.49 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.6% | volatile |
| 72 | China | 1.38 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 178.9% | volatile |
| 73 | New Zealand | 1.26 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Albania | 1.24 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.1% | volatile |
| 75 | Tuvalu | 1.17 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1,066.7% | volatile |
| 76 | Guam | 1.11 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 77 | Tunisia | 1.1 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.4% | volatile |
| 78 | Azerbaijan | 1.06 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 41.9% | volatile |
| 79 | Ecuador | 0.9572 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.9% | volatile |
| 80 | India | 0.8882 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.4% | volatile |
| 81 | Iraq | 0.8567 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1,010.8% | volatile |
| 82 | Georgia | 0.8537 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.7% | volatile |
| 83 | Finland | 0.825 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.3% | volatile |
| 84 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.8231 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.8% | volatile |
| 85 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.8189 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.6% | volatile |
| 86 | Egypt | 0.8166 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.4% | volatile |
| 87 | Djibouti | 0.7556 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.1% | volatile |
| 88 | Panama | 0.7119 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.7% | rising |
| 89 | Norway | 0.6639 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 44.9% | volatile |
| 90 | Ukraine | 0.6386 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 42.9% | volatile |
| 91 | Nepal | 0.6243 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 241.8% | volatile |
| 92 | Faroe Islands | 0.6204 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 49.3% | falling |
| 93 | Saudi Arabia | 0.5744 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.7% | volatile |
| 94 | Montenegro | 0.568 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.0% | rising |
| 95 | Kenya | 0.5573 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.5% | volatile |
| 96 | Chile | 0.5504 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 33.2% | volatile |
| 97 | South Africa | 0.5276 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.1% | volatile |
| 98 | Pakistan | 0.5145 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 99 | Uganda | 0.5084 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.8% | volatile |
| 100 | Marshall Islands | 0.5 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 150.0% | volatile |
| 101 | Rwanda | 0.4988 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 172.3% | volatile |
| 102 | Belarus | 0.4793 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 48.1% | volatile |
| 103 | Nigeria | 0.4718 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.0% | volatile |
| 104 | Senegal | 0.454 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 49.9% | volatile |
| 105 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.4432 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 106 | Uzbekistan | 0.4355 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 108.9% | volatile |
| 107 | Oman | 0.4348 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 108 | Nicaragua | 0.4274 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 72.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Colombia | 0.4171 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.3% | volatile |
| 110 | Algeria | 0.4123 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 94.9% | volatile |
| 111 | Haiti | 0.4056 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.9% | volatile |
| 112 | Ghana | 0.4007 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.1% | volatile |
| 113 | Peru | 0.3943 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 114 | Indonesia | 0.3834 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.1% | volatile |
| 115 | New Caledonia | 0.3679 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 33.2% | volatile |
| 116 | Tonga | 0.3556 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 66.2% | volatile |
| 117 | Cuba | 0.348 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 43.4% | volatile |
| 118 | Uruguay | 0.3472 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.8% | volatile |
| 119 | Gambia | 0.2865 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.7% | volatile |
| 120 | Dominica | 0.2827 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 61.0% | volatile |
| 121 | Paraguay | 0.2798 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.7% | volatile |
| 122 | Comoros | 0.2767 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 385.8% | volatile |
| 123 | Myanmar | 0.2765 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.2% | volatile |
| 124 | Canada | 0.267 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.2% | volatile |
| 125 | Samoa | 0.2669 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.9% | volatile |
| 126 | French Polynesia | 0.2579 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 84.3% | volatile |
| 127 | Bahamas | 0.244 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 128 | Togo | 0.2152 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 129 | Eswatini | 0.2099 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 84.0% | falling |
| 130 | Malawi | 0.2033 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.7% | volatile |
| 131 | Tajikistan | 0.2019 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 221.8% | volatile |
| 132 | American Samoa | 0.2 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 67.2% | volatile |
| 133 | Cameroon | 0.1901 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 77.5% | volatile |
| 134 | Yemen | 0.1894 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.1% | volatile |
| 135 | Palau | 0.1826 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 52.8% | volatile |
| 136 | Argentina | 0.1804 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.6% | volatile |
| 137 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.1719 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.0% | volatile |
| 138 | Zimbabwe | 0.1559 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 139 | Northern Mariana Islands | 0.1435 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 340.0% | volatile |
| 140 | Lesotho | 0.1357 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 31.8% | rising |
| 141 | Kiribati | 0.1049 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2,025.0% | volatile |
| 142 | Benin | 0.1027 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.4% | volatile |
| 143 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.101 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.5% | volatile |
| 144 | Australia | 0.1006 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.7% | rising |
| 145 | Zambia | 0.0993 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 112.5% | volatile |
| 146 | Ethiopia | 0.0935 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 147 | Belize | 0.0817 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.9% | volatile |
| 148 | Madagascar | 0.0761 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 70.2% | volatile |
| 149 | Bhutan | 0.0706 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 99.4% | volatile |
| 150 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.0703 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 144.1% | volatile |
| 151 | Iceland | 0.0698 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 73.5% | rising |
| 152 | Kazakhstan | 0.0692 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.2% | volatile |
| 153 | Congo | 0.056 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 244.4% | volatile |
| 154 | Sierra Leone | 0.0554 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 88.2% | volatile |
| 155 | Namibia | 0.0545 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 156 | Brazil | 0.0537 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 63.2% | volatile |
| 157 | Liberia | 0.053 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 141.8% | volatile |
| 158 | Angola | 0.0516 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.3% | volatile |
| 159 | Papua New Guinea | 0.0512 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.8% | volatile |
| 160 | Guinea | 0.0486 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 252.7% | volatile |
| 161 | Botswana | 0.0485 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.8% | volatile |
| 162 | Vanuatu | 0.0447 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | volatile |
| 163 | Burkina Faso | 0.0434 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 291.2% | volatile |
| 164 | Mozambique | 0.0434 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 111.0% | volatile |
| 165 | Burundi | 0.0428 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 88.7% | volatile |
| 166 | Libya | 0.042 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 91.3% | volatile |
| 167 | Gabon | 0.0328 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.9% | volatile |
| 168 | Turkmenistan | 0.0298 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.0% | volatile |
| 169 | Suriname | 0.0276 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.2% | volatile |
| 170 | Solomon Islands | 0.0235 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 189.9% | volatile |
| 171 | Mongolia | 0.0234 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 95.3% | volatile |
| 172 | Afghanistan | 0.0227 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 904.7% | volatile |
| 173 | Sudan | 0.022 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.2% | falling |
| 174 | Guyana | 0.0187 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.1% | rising |
| 175 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.0182 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 48.0% | volatile |
| 176 | Mauritania | 0.0112 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 81.1% | volatile |
| 177 | Somalia | 0.01 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 491.3% | volatile |
| 178 | Mali | 0.0047 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 179 | Eritrea | 0.0047 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 62.4% | volatile |
| 180 | South Sudan | 0.0044 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12,004.3% | volatile |
| 181 | Central African Republic | 0.0026 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 421.8% | volatile |
| 182 | Niger | 0.0021 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.6% | volatile |
| 183 | Greenland | 0.0016 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.5% | falling |
| 184 | Chad | 0.001 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 118.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0.8025 t per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Paper and paperboard — Import quantity Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Paper and paperboard — Import quantity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.