# EU countries by municipal waste recycling rate, 2024

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `municipal_waste_recycling_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Municipal waste recycled, including composting and anaerobic digestion, as a percentage of municipal waste generated.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Recycling rate of municipal waste (cei_wm011) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/cei_wm011/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-15
- Citation: Eurostat. Recycling rate of municipal waste (cei_wm011). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/cei_wm011/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-15.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/municipal-waste-recycling-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 69 |
| 2 | Slovenia | 62.4 |
| 3 | Austria | 60.7 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 58 |
| 5 | Belgium | 56.6 |
| 6 | Luxembourg | 56.5 |
| 7 | Latvia | 52.7 |
| 8 | Lithuania | 52.5 |
| 9 | Italy | 52.3 |
| 10 | Slovakia | 50.7 |
| 11 | Finland | 47.9 |
| 12 | Denmark | 46.2 |
| 13 | Sweden | 46.1 |
| 14 | France | 45.5 |
| 15 | Czechia | 44.4 |
| 16 | Ireland | 43.1 |
| 17 | Spain | 42.5 |
| 18 | Croatia | 36.7 |
| 19 | Estonia | 36.4 |
| 20 | Hungary | 33.6 |
| 21 | Portugal | 32.9 |
| 22 | Poland | 31.1 |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 21.8 |
| 24 | Greece | 17.5 |
| 25 | Malta | 16.9 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 15.8 |