Paper and paperboard — Production, per square kilometre by country
Paper and paperboard — Production 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
116
Highest
121.17 t per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 t per square kilometre
Zimbabwe
Median
1.02 t per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
5,721
What the numbers show
Paper and paperboard — Production, per square kilometre is currently reported for 116 countries. The highest value is 121.17 t per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 t per square kilometre in Zimbabwe.
The median across all reporting countries is 1.02 t per square kilometre, and the mean is 6.58 t per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 45 countries rose and 43 fell. The largest increase was in Costa Rica (up 1,151.1%), and the largest decrease in Cameroon (down 100.0%).
Paper and paperboard — Production, per square kilometre: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 121.17 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Japan | 61.17 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.0% | rising |
| 3 | Germany | 53.33 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Austria | 48.73 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Belgium | 47.48 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.6% | flat |
| 6 | Italy | 25.35 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.4% | rising |
| 7 | Slovenia | 24.68 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.4% | rising |
| 8 | Switzerland | 22.31 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 27.4% | rising |
| 9 | Finland | 21.32 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.8% | rising |
| 10 | Portugal | 19.98 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.0% | volatile |
| 11 | Israel | 18.62 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 12 | Sweden | 18.4 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 30.6% | rising |
| 13 | Slovakia | 18.38 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 14 | Poland | 15.09 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.6% | volatile |
| 15 | Bahrain | 15 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 16 | China | 14.24 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.2% | volatile |
| 17 | United Kingdom | 13.32 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.3% | rising |
| 18 | Spain | 12.11 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 19 | France | 11.62 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 20 | Hungary | 10.57 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.6% | rising |
| 21 | Thailand | 10.42 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Czechia | 10.16 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.4% | rising |
| 23 | Lebanon | 10.07 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 24 | Vietnam | 8.87 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 92.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Malaysia | 7.97 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.0% | volatile |
| 26 | India | 7.1 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 78.9% | volatile |
| 27 | United States | 6.62 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.6% | rising |
| 28 | Indonesia | 6.32 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Serbia | 6.11 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 18.5% | rising |
| 30 | Croatia | 6.02 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 31 | Costa Rica | 4.9 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1,151.1% | volatile |
| 32 | Barbados | 4.65 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 4.28 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.6% | rising |
| 34 | El Salvador | 4.13 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.8% | volatile |
| 35 | Greece | 3.99 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.7% | volatile |
| 36 | Denmark | 3.8 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 68.4% | rising |
| 37 | Kuwait | 3.76 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 38 | Turkey | 3.62 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Bulgaria | 3.43 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 40 | Romania | 3.31 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 114.8% | flat |
| 41 | Mexico | 3.2 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Trinidad and Tobago | 2.92 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 43 | Eswatini | 2.85 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 44 | Norway | 2.81 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 45 | Dominican Republic | 2.7 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.2% | volatile |
| 46 | Philippines | 2.53 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2.49 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.3% | rising |
| 48 | Lithuania | 1.9 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.0% | rising |
| 49 | New Zealand | 1.82 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.3% | rising |
| 50 | Belarus | 1.76 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 51 | Chile | 1.74 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Ukraine | 1.7 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 9.0% | rising |
| 53 | South Africa | 1.59 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.6% | rising |
| 54 | Brazil | 1.24 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.1% | volatile |
| 55 | North Macedonia | 1.23 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 56 | Colombia | 1.09 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 57 | Tunisia | 1.05 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 32.5% | volatile |
| 58 | Pakistan | 1.03 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 13.9% | volatile |
| 59 | Armenia | 1.01 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 290.2% | volatile |
| 60 | Ecuador | 0.9851 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 61 | Canada | 0.9315 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 25.3% | rising |
| 62 | Ireland | 0.871 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 63 | Estonia | 0.7143 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 57.5% | rising |
| 64 | Egypt | 0.7132 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 7.6% | volatile |
| 65 | Georgia | 0.7101 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 304.8% | volatile |
| 66 | Argentina | 0.6747 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.0% | rising |
| 67 | Albania | 0.6507 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 68 | Russia | 0.6216 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.4% | rising |
| 69 | Azerbaijan | 0.6195 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 556.5% | volatile |
| 70 | Jordan | 0.6081 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.0% | volatile |
| 71 | Saudi Arabia | 0.5517 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 72 | Bangladesh | 0.4462 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 73 | Syria | 0.4084 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 74 | Sri Lanka | 0.3961 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 75 | Uzbekistan | 0.3908 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 521.5% | volatile |
| 76 | Australia | 0.3846 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.4% | rising |
| 77 | Latvia | 0.3683 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 48.2% | volatile |
| 78 | Peru | 0.3578 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.2% | volatile |
| 79 | Myanmar | 0.3509 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 408.1% | volatile |
| 80 | Morocco | 0.3495 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 81 | Uruguay | 0.2983 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 60.4% | rising |
| 82 | Guatemala | 0.2893 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 83 | Bhutan | 0.2622 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 84 | Qatar | 0.2611 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 85 | Honduras | 0.237 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 64.6% | falling |
| 86 | Moldova | 0.175 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.5% | volatile |
| 87 | Paraguay | 0.1692 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 417.1% | volatile |
| 88 | Montenegro | 0.1546 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 816.3% | volatile |
| 89 | Cuba | 0.1503 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.8% | volatile |
| 90 | Kazakhstan | 0.0924 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.9% | rising |
| 91 | Nepal | 0.0907 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 92 | Ethiopia | 0.0695 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.0% | volatile |
| 93 | Madagascar | 0.0574 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 65.9% | volatile |
| 94 | Iraq | 0.0299 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.0% | falling |
| 95 | Algeria | 0.0267 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 36.6% | volatile |
| 96 | Oman | 0.0129 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 97 | Congo | 0.0088 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 98 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.0042 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 99 | Burkina Faso | 0.0035 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 100 | Libya | 0.0034 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 101 | Mozambique | 0.0025 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 102 | Sudan | 0.0021 t per square kilometre | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 103 | Zambia | 0.0013 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 104 | Mauritania | 0.0011 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
| 105 | Senegal | 0.0007 t per square kilometre | 2023 | unchanged | rising |
| 106 | Angola | 0 t per square kilometre | 1997 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Cameroon | 0 t per square kilometre | 1997 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 106 | Jamaica | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Kenya | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Cambodia | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Luxembourg | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Nigeria | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Panama | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Uganda | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 106 | Yemen | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 106 | Zimbabwe | 0 t per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 3.14 t per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Paper and paperboard — Production 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 — Production ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Paper and paperboard — Production 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 — Production 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.