ten00063 · 2012–2023
Recycling rates for packaging waste
Eurostat ten00063 — Recycling rates for packaging waste. Data range: 2012 to 2023.
At a glance
In 2023, the EU-27 figure for recycling rates for packaging waste was 67.5 .
That is a 3.4% rose versus 2022 (65.3).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 2.9% higher.
Across member states, Belgium reported the highest value (79.7, 2023) and Romania the lowest (37.3, 2022) — a ratio of 2.1× between the two ends of the range.
The figures below come from Eurostat dataset ten00063; every value links back to the canonical source.
EU-27 · 2023
67.5
HIGHEST · 2023
Belgium
79.7
LOWEST · 2022
Romania
37.3
Map · 2023
37.3 79.7
Ranking · 2023
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Belgium 79.7
- Netherlands 75.8
- Italy 75.6
- Czechia 74.8
- Slovenia 73.6
- Slovakia 71.9
- Spain 70.5
- Cyprus 69.5
- Germany 69.4
- France 69
- Estonia 68.5
- Sweden 68.5
- European Union (27) 67.5
Country × year heatmap · all values
31.8 85.3
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Belgium BE · 2023 79.7
- #2 Netherlands NL · 2023 75.8
- #3 Italy IT · 2023 75.6
- #4 Czechia CZ · 2023 74.8
- #5 Slovenia SI · 2023 73.6
- #6 Slovakia SK · 2023 71.9
- #7 Spain ES · 2023 70.5
- #8 Cyprus CY · 2022 69.5
- #9 Germany DE · 2023 69.4
- #10 France FR · 2023 69.0
- #11 Estonia EE · 2023 68.5
- #12 Sweden SE · 2023 68.5
- #13 Poland PL · 2023 67.4
- #14 Luxembourg LU · 2023 66.1
- #15 Austria AT · 2023 64.9
- #16 Latvia LV · 2023 63.1
- #17 Denmark DK · 2023 62.7
- #18 Portugal PT · 2023 61.8
- #19 Ireland IE · 2023 61.0
- #20 Lithuania LT · 2023 60.7
- #21 Finland FI · 2023 59.4
- #22 Bulgaria BG · 2022 58.3
- #23 Croatia HR · 2023 51.9
- #24 Greece EL · 2023 48.0
- #25 Malta MT · 2023 44.4
- #26 Hungary HU · 2023 42.8
- #27 Romania RO · 2022 37.3
By year
Source:
Eurostat · ten00063