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Food waste

<p>The indicator is defined as&nbsp;the amount of food waste generated per year divided by the average population of the country.</p><p>Food waste is measured as fresh mass all along the food value chain, including production sites, processing and manufacture, retail and distribution, restaurants and food services and households. </p>

eu-estat-sdmx:CEI_PC035

Food waste

ESTAT

Publisher
ESTAT
Source
Eurostat (eu-estat-sdmx)
Status
Active
Formats
SDMX-XML
Licence
EU reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) — attribution required · open
Standard
SDMX 2.1
Countries
30 countries and areas — see list below
Dataset id
eu-estat-sdmx:CEI_PC035
Last verified
2026-09-27

Geographic coverage

Food waste carries observations for 30 countries and areas:

Austria · Belgium · Bulgaria · Cyprus · Czechia · Germany · Denmark · Estonia · Greece · Spain · European Union - 27 countries (from 2020) · Finland · France · Croatia · Hungary · Ireland · Iceland · Italy · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Latvia · Malta · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Sweden · Slovenia · Slovakia