Data
Food wasted by households, food service and retail, world
How much food, including inedible parts such as bones and peels, was thrown away in 2022 by households, by restaurants, canteens and other food service, and by shops, in million tonnes, as estimated by UNEP's Food Waste Index Report 2024.
Latest value
1,052Mt
World (sum of UNEP's estimates for every country, many extrapolated), 2022. Version Food Waste Index Report 2024.
As published
“The results indicate that 1.05 billion tonnes of food were wasted across the three sectors considered in this report in 2022 (Table 23), equal to 132 kilograms per capita per year.”
Food Waste Index Report 2024, Table 23, p. 46. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.
Every value
| Sector | Period | Value (Mt) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households | 2022 | 631 | final |
| Food service | 2022 | 290 | final |
| Retail | 2022 | 131 | final |
| Households, food service and retail together | 2022 | 1,052 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with WRAP · Food Waste Index Report 2024
- Version
- Food Waste Index Report 2024
- Fetched
- 2026-10-06 (by a person), 21,703,685 bytes
- Fingerprint
- sha256 8f601d69958e811318374076d831858c5ec0f1a0e62549376d6e6172b8da2548
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.
- Cite the producer
- United Nations Environment Programme (2024). Food Waste Index Report 2024. Think Eat Save: Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste. Nairobi.
What was done to it
Read the text of UNEP's report PDF (sha256 8f601d69958e…, downloaded by hand from UNEP's repository; see the snapshot note). Found Table 23's title, column header and all four rows, and the sentence introducing the table, word for word on PDF page 66 (printed p. 46) before publishing.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/unep_food_waste.py · code sha256 66cf4484aa383fc6… · inputs 8f601d69958e…
Published the column "2022 total (million tonnes)" for Household, Food service, Retail and Total, exactly as printed ("1 052" is read as 1,052).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/food/unep_food_waste.py · code sha256 66cf4484aa383fc6… · inputs 8f601d69958e…
What it covers
- Geography
- World (sum of UNEP's estimates for every country, many extrapolated)
- Basis
- SDG 12.3.1b food waste in 2022: food and its associated inedible parts (bones, peels, shells) removed from the human food supply at household, food service and retail level. Food lost before retail (SDG 12.3.1a) and in manufacturing is not included. Not comparable with the 2021 report's 2019 estimates (different data and methods).
- Unit
- million tonnes (Mt)