Which country has the highest Food Waste per Capita?

Maldives has the highest Food Waste per Capita in 2024, at 207 kg/year, followed by Seychelles (183 kg/year) and Syria (172 kg/year).

Which country has the lowest Food Waste per Capita?

Mongolia has the lowest Food Waste per Capita in 2024, at 18 kg/year.

What is the median Food Waste per Capita across countries?

The median is 88 kg/year across the 222 countries with data in 2024.

Where does this food waste by country data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Food Waste Index Report 2024 - Environment Assembly - UNEP; UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021 - UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme).

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Maldives has the highest Food Waste per Capita in 2024 (207 kg/year), followed by Seychelles (183 kg/year) and Syria (172 kg/year). Mongolia has the lowest (18 kg/year).

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88 kg/year

Middle half 78 kg/year – 92 kg/year

Average

87.3 kg/year

222 countries

Highest

207 kg/year

Maldives

Lowest

18 kg/year

Mongolia

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214 countries have a value in both years.

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1	Maldives	207 kg/year	107,877 t
2	Seychelles	183 kg/year	20,089 t
3	Syria	172 kg/year	3,798,032 t
3	Tunisia	172 kg/year	2,121,810 t
5	Egypt	163 kg/year	18,085,437 t
6	Dominican Republic	160 kg/year	1,799,544 t
7	Tanzania	152 kg/year	9,960,496 t
8	Iraq	143 kg/year	6,378,198 t
9	Rwanda	141 kg/year	1,937,761 t
9	Vanuatu	141 kg/year	46,687 t
11	Western Sahara	140 kg/year	80,958 t
12	Bahrain	132 kg/year	193,612 t
13	Pakistan	130 kg/year	30,754,726 t
14	Lebanon	128 kg/year	701,828 t
15	Afghanistan	127 kg/year	5,229,654 t
16	Portugal	124 kg/year	1,273,480 t
17	Switzerland	119 kg/year	1,041,879 t
18	Sudan	116 kg/year	5,414,527 t
19	Nigeria	113 kg/year	24,791,826 t
19	Algeria	113 kg/year	5,057,909 t
19	Morocco	113 kg/year	4,219,805 t
22	Uganda	110 kg/year	5,209,076 t
23	Serbia	108 kg/year	780,482 t
24	Italy	107 kg/year	6,317,280 t
25	Mexico	105 kg/year	13,368,447 t
25	Saudi Arabia	105 kg/year	3,818,681 t
27	Yemen	104 kg/year	3,490,097 t
28	Turkey	102 kg/year	8,694,318 t
28	Azerbaijan	102 kg/year	1,055,462 t
28	Palestine	102 kg/year	534,863 t
28	Armenia	102 kg/year	283,222 t
32	Jordan	101 kg/year	1,136,788 t
32	Hong Kong	101 kg/year	759,923 t
32	Kuwait	101 kg/year	1,136,788 t
32	Panama	101 kg/year	445,347 t
32	Georgia	101 kg/year	377,643 t
37	United Arab Emirates	99 kg/year	930,427 t
37	Oman	99 kg/year	451,415 t
39	Australia	98 kg/year	2,559,065 t
40	Israel	97 kg/year	874,433 t
41	Ecuador	96 kg/year	1,727,535 t
42	South Korea	95 kg/year	4,921,086 t
42	Anguilla	95 kg/year	1,892 t
42	Saint Barthelemy	95 kg/year	946 t
45	Brazil	94 kg/year	20,289,630 t
46	Iran	93 kg/year	8,208,360 t
46	Nepal	93 kg/year	2,831,907 t
46	Venezuela	93 kg/year	2,626,859 t
46	Qatar	93 kg/year	250,830 t
46	Mayotte	93 kg/year	30,536 t
51	Mozambique	92 kg/year	3,033,197 t
51	Madagascar	92 kg/year	2,724,081 t
51	Niger	92 kg/year	2,411,286 t
51	Mali	92 kg/year	2,078,251 t
51	Burkina Faso	92 kg/year	2,085,610 t
51	Malawi	92 kg/year	1,877,693 t
51	Chad	92 kg/year	1,630,217 t
51	Somalia	92 kg/year	1,619,177 t
51	Burundi	92 kg/year	1,185,863 t
51	South Sudan	92 kg/year	1,003,706 t
51	Togo	92 kg/year	814,188 t
51	Sierra Leone	92 kg/year	792,109 t
51	Liberia	92 kg/year	487,593 t
51	Central African Republic	92 kg/year	513,353 t
51	Eritrea	92 kg/year	338,555 t
51	Gambia	92 kg/year	249,316 t
51	Guinea-Bissau	92 kg/year	194,117 t
51	Malta	92 kg/year	48,760 t
69	Argentina	91 kg/year	4,156,798 t
69	Guatemala	91 kg/year	1,629,472 t
69	Cuba	91 kg/year	1,023,900 t
69	Paraguay	91 kg/year	619,272 t
69	El Salvador	91 kg/year	579,084 t
69	Costa Rica	91 kg/year	473,131 t
69	Luxembourg	91 kg/year	59,150 t
69	Suriname	91 kg/year	56,630 t
69	Saint Lucia	91 kg/year	16,441 t
69	Grenada	91 kg/year	11,874 t
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	91 kg/year	9,134 t
69	Dominica	91 kg/year	6,394 t
81	Bolivia	90 kg/year	1,101,625 t
81	Haiti	90 kg/year	1,044,831 t
81	Honduras	90 kg/year	940,257 t
81	Nicaragua	90 kg/year	626,538 t
81	Namibia	90 kg/year	232,106 t
81	Gabon	90 kg/year	215,849 t
81	Equatorial Guinea	90 kg/year	150,824 t
81	Mauritius	90 kg/year	11,408 t
81	Fiji	90 kg/year	83,945 t
90	Angola	89 kg/year	3,171,950 t
90	Ivory Coast	89 kg/year	2,509,753 t
90	Cameroon	89 kg/year	2,487,472 t
90	Guinea	89 kg/year	1,235,269 t
90	Benin	89 kg/year	1,189,816 t
90	Papua New Guinea	89 kg/year	903,213 t
90	Laos	89 kg/year	673,831 t
90	Republic of the Congo	89 kg/year	532,075 t
90	Mauritania	89 kg/year	422,451 t
90	Lesotho	89 kg/year	205,878 t
90	Eswatini	89 kg/year	106,950 t
90	Djibouti	89 kg/year	99,820 t
90	Comoros	89 kg/year	74,865 t
90	Cape Verde	89 kg/year	52,584 t
90	Sao Tome and Principe	89 kg/year	20,499 t
105	Peru	88 kg/year	2,983,735 t
105	Kazakhstan	88 kg/year	1,708,990 t
105	Chile	88 kg/year	1,725,226 t
105	Turkmenistan	88 kg/year	566,433 t
105	Uruguay	88 kg/year	301,034 t
105	Puerto Rico	88 kg/year	286,071 t
105	Trinidad and Tobago	88 kg/year	134,673 t
105	Guyana	88 kg/year	71,298 t
105	Bahamas	88 kg/year	36,089 t
105	Barbados	88 kg/year	24,646 t
105	Curacao	88 kg/year	16,724 t
105	Aruba	88 kg/year	9,682 t
105	Tonga	88 kg/year	9,690 t
105	Antigua and Barbuda	88 kg/year	7,922 t
105	United States Virgin Islands	88 kg/year	8,802 t
105	Cayman Islands	88 kg/year	6,162 t
105	Turks and Caicos Islands	88 kg/year	4,401 t
105	Saint Kitts and Nevis	88 kg/year	4,401 t
105	Sint Maarten	88 kg/year	3,521 t
105	British Virgin Islands	88 kg/year	2,641 t
105	Saint Martin	88 kg/year	2,641 t
105	Tuvalu	88 kg/year	881 t
127	Greece	87 kg/year	903,930 t
127	New Caledonia	87 kg/year	25,215 t
129	Thailand	86 kg/year	6,180,468 t
129	Uzbekistan	86 kg/year	2,968,299 t
129	Tajikistan	86 kg/year	852,861 t
129	Kyrgyzstan	86 kg/year	568,288 t
129	Bosnia and Herzegovina	86 kg/year	277,117 t
129	Jamaica	86 kg/year	243,364 t
129	Lithuania	86 kg/year	36,500 t
129	Albania	86 kg/year	243,657 t
129	North Macedonia	86 kg/year	179,311 t
129	Montenegro	86 kg/year	54,051 t
129	Samoa	86 kg/year	18,857 t
129	Cook Islands	86 kg/year	1,724 t
129	Tokelau	86 kg/year	—
129	Niue	86 kg/year	—
143	Cambodia	85 kg/year	1,419,831 t
144	Ghana	84 kg/year	2,812,571 t
144	Libya	84 kg/year	572,937 t
146	Austria	83 kg/year	742,020 t
147	Bangladesh	82 kg/year	14,101,956 t
147	Latvia	82 kg/year	151,700 t
147	Andorra	82 kg/year	6,598 t
147	Gibraltar	82 kg/year	2,474 t
147	San Marino	82 kg/year	2,474 t
152	DR Congo	81 kg/year	2,104,855 t
152	Kenya	81 kg/year	4,351,168 t
152	Malaysia	81 kg/year	2,754,808 t
152	French Polynesia	81 kg/year	25,252 t
152	American Samoa	81 kg/year	3,258 t
152	Liechtenstein	81 kg/year	3,235 t
152	Monaco	81 kg/year	3,235 t
159	Canada	79 kg/year	3,019,925 t
159	Denmark	79 kg/year	464,520 t
159	Bermuda	79 kg/year	4,718 t
159	Greenland	79 kg/year	4,718 t
163	Germany	78 kg/year	6,502,860 t
163	Myanmar	78 kg/year	4,221,946 t
163	Zambia	78 kg/year	1,559,958 t
163	Norway	78 kg/year	423,540 t
163	Timor-Leste	78 kg/year	104,419 t
168	Senegal	77 kg/year	1,328,487 t
169	China	76 kg/year	108,667,369 t
169	United Kingdom	76 kg/year	5,097,005 t
169	Sri Lanka	76 kg/year	1,656,148 t
169	Macau	76 kg/year	53,016 t
169	Brunei	76 kg/year	34,109 t
169	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	76 kg/year	758 t
175	Iceland	75 kg/year	27,886 t
175	Isle of Man	75 kg/year	6,029 t
175	Faroe Islands	75 kg/year	3,768 t
178	United States	73 kg/year	24,716,539 t
179	Vietnam	72 kg/year	7,079,811 t
180	Belgium	71 kg/year	827,860 t
180	Belarus	71 kg/year	674,104 t
180	Moldova	71 kg/year	231,061 t
180	Cyprus	71 kg/year	88,750 t
184	Colombia	70 kg/year	3,653,302 t
185	Ethiopia	69 kg/year	8,543,382 t
185	Ukraine	69 kg/year	2,758,037 t
185	Czechia	69 kg/year	723,810 t
188	Singapore	68 kg/year	409,182 t
189	Romania	67 kg/year	1,323,991 t
190	Hungary	66 kg/year	658,020 t
191	Slovakia	65 kg/year	366,600 t
192	Marshall Islands	63 kg/year	2,526 t
192	Palau	63 kg/year	1,263 t
194	Kiribati	62 kg/year	8,056 t
195	France	61 kg/year	3,942,430 t
195	Spain	61 kg/year	2,895,272 t
195	Sweden	61 kg/year	643,550 t
195	New Zealand	61 kg/year	316,590 t
195	Estonia	61 kg/year	81,130 t
200	Japan	60 kg/year	7,398,006 t
200	Poland	60 kg/year	2,391,600 t
200	Guam	60 kg/year	10,173 t
200	Northern Mariana Islands	60 kg/year	2,992 t
200	Nauru	60 kg/year	598 t
205	Netherlands	59 kg/year	1,036,040 t
206	India	55 kg/year	78,192,338 t
207	Indonesia	53 kg/year	14,728,364 t
207	Finland	53 kg/year	293,620 t
207	Croatia	53 kg/year	213,590 t
207	Belize	53 kg/year	21,596 t
211	Botswana	50 kg/year	132,594 t
212	Zimbabwe	48 kg/year	791,249 t
212	Ireland	48 kg/year	240,960 t
214	South Africa	47 kg/year	2,819,981 t
215	Solomon Islands	43 kg/year	31,242 t
216	Micronesia	38 kg/year	4,205 t
217	Slovenia	36 kg/year	76,320 t
218	Russia	33 kg/year	4,829,772 t
219	Philippines	26 kg/year	2,954,580 t
219	Bulgaria	26 kg/year	176,280 t
221	Bhutan	19 kg/year	15,072 t
222	Mongolia	18 kg/year	60,364 t

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GGGI Economics ScoreGlobal Gender Gap by Country
r = −0.37 · moderate · n = 148
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Quick answers

Which country has the highest Food Waste per Capita?: Maldives has the highest Food Waste per Capita in 2024, at 207 kg/year, followed by Seychelles (183 kg/year) and Syria (172 kg/year).
Which country has the lowest Food Waste per Capita?: Mongolia has the lowest Food Waste per Capita in 2024, at 18 kg/year.
What is the median Food Waste per Capita across countries?: The median is 88 kg/year across the 222 countries with data in 2024.
Where does this food waste by country data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Food Waste Index Report 2024 - Environment Assembly - UNEP; UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021 - UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme).

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