Municipal Solid Waste Generation

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: municipal-waste-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Municipal Solid Waste Generation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	201	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	201	0
Year reportedreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	14	0
Municipal solid waste (kg per person per day)municipal_wasteHeadline	The headline figure: Municipal solid waste generated (kg per person per day).	Number · up to 18 decimals	0.05769Burkina Faso4.17607British Virgin Islandsmiddle 0.96558	199	0
Municipal solid waste (tonnes per year)waste_tonnesMeasure	Municipal solid waste generated in the country in the year reported, in tonnes.	Number · up to 12 decimals	570Nauru502,607,448Chinamiddle 2,044,000	200	0
Where it was measuredpoint_of_measurementLabel	Where in the waste chain the amount was weighed — at the household or business, at a transfer station, or at the landfill or plant — or Not stated.	Text	—	7	1

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 201 countries.

Not in this dataset · 24 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AnguillaBeninBurundiChadCook IslandsDjiboutiEritreaGuineaGuinea-BissauLesothoLiberiaMaliMontserratNamibiaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusRwandaSierra LeoneSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanTurks and Caicos IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   datacatalog.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   What a Waste 3.0 — Municipal Solid Waste Generation

   What_a_Waste_3.0_COUNTRY_Dataset_&_Codebook.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: municipal-waste-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/municipal-waste

From the World Bank's What a Waste 3.0 country dataset, published in March 2026. The Bank's modelled estimates for 2022 and its projections to 2050 are not used.

• Charted

  Municipal Solid Waste Generation by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

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