Share of plastic waste exports in Sudan
Sudan: Share of plastic waste exports was 0.2% in 2018. ◆ Volatile
Share of plastic waste exports in Sudan, 2012–2018
Source: United Nations Comtrade Database (2025); United Nations Comtrade Database (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
The most recent figure for share of plastic waste exports in Sudan is 0.2%, measured in 2018. That is the highest value across all 7 years on record.
That represents a change of up 29.8% on the previous year and up 958.2% over ten years.
That places Sudan 53rd out of 162 countries with data for 2018, putting it in the middle of the range.
Countries ranked near Sudan
- 50 Nicaragua 0.2% compare
- 51 Myanmar 0.2% compare
- 52 Hong Kong 0.2% compare
- 54 North Macedonia 0.2% compare
- 55 Mauritania 0.2% compare
- 56 Tajikistan 0.1% compare
More environment data for Sudan
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF 138.7 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF per capita 2.75 t CO2e/capita (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture 64.91 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Building (Energy) 2.36 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Fugitive Emissions (Energy) 7.52 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Industrial Combustion (Energy) 0.0272 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF 84.85 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Power Industry (Energy) 0.0038 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Transport (Energy) 0.0726 Mt CO2e (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Waste 9.96 Mt CO2e (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is share of plastic waste exports in Sudan?
- Share of plastic waste exports in Sudan was 0.2% in 2018, according to United Nations Comtrade Database (2025); United Nations Comtrade Database (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest share of plastic waste exports recorded in Sudan?
- The highest recorded value was 0.2% in 2018.
- What is the lowest share of plastic waste exports recorded in Sudan?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 2012.
- How does Sudan rank for share of plastic waste exports?
- Sudan ranks 53rd out of 162 countries with data for 2018.
- Is share of plastic waste exports rising or falling in Sudan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 958.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Sudan data come from?
- The figures come from United Nations Comtrade Database (2025); United Nations Comtrade Database (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Share of plastic waste exports. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The percentage of global plastic waste exports that a country accounts for.