# EU countries by circular material use rate, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `circular_material_use_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Material recovered from waste and fed back into the economy, as a percentage of all material used. All material used is domestic material consumption plus the recovered material.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Circular material use rate (env_ac_cur) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/env_ac_cur/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- Citation: Eurostat. Circular material use rate (env_ac_cur). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/env_ac_cur/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/circular-material-use-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Netherlands | 32.7 |
| 2 | Belgium | 22.7 |
| 3 | Italy | 21.6 |
| 4 | Estonia | 20.5 |
| 5 | Malta | 18.6 |
| 6 | France | 17.8 |
| 7 | Austria | 15.2 |
| 8 | Czechia | 14.8 |
| 8 | Germany | 14.8 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 12.2 |
| 11 | Luxembourg | 10.7 |
| 12 | Sweden | 10.4 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 10.1 |
| 14 | Denmark | 9.4 |
| 15 | Poland | 7.7 |
| 16 | Spain | 7.4 |
| 17 | Hungary | 7.3 |
| 18 | Latvia | 6.8 |
| 19 | Croatia | 5.9 |
| 20 | Cyprus | 5.5 |
| 21 | Greece | 5.2 |
| 22 | Bulgaria | 5 |
| 23 | Lithuania | 4.2 |
| 24 | Portugal | 3 |
| 25 | Finland | 2 |
| 25 | Ireland | 2 |
| 27 | Romania | 1.3 |