Municipal waste generated per person
Municipal waste generated in the year, in kilograms per inhabitant: household waste and similar waste from shops, offices and public institutions, collected by or for municipalities.
Countries differ in how much commercial waste they count as municipal, which explains part of the gap between them.
Key facts
- Municipal waste generated per person in the European Union (27) was 517 kg per person in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Austria had the highest municipal waste generated per person of 27 EU countries in 2023, at 782 kg per person, and Romania the lowest, at 305 kg per person. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 1995 to 2024.
Rankings
EU countries by municipal waste generated per person, 2023
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Finland
- Denmark
- Hungary
- Greece
- Croatia
- Cyprus
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest municipal waste generated per person? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"municipal_waste_per_capita","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=municipal_waste_per_capita&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)