Food waste from food and beverage manufacturing per inhabitant
RecordSTO-9K1KRBHSTX-N0PQ1A87ZT-Y6K97H
European Union · 2023
Food waste from food and beverage manufacturing per inhabitant in the European Union was 24 kg per inhabitant in 2023 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Highlights
- Retrieved
- 18 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Household food waste is slightly less than twice the amount of food waste arising from the sectors of primary production and manufacture of food products and beverages (12 kg and 24 kg per inhabitant; 10% and 19%, respectively), sectors in which strategies exist for reducing food waste, for instance with the use of discarded parts as by-products.
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2023). Food waste and food waste prevention. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_9K1KRBHSTXN0PQ1A87ZTY6K97H
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- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Food waste and food waste prevention." 2023, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_9K1KRBHSTXN0PQ1A87ZTY6K97H.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Food waste and food waste prevention." 2023. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food_waste_and_food_waste_prevention_-_estimates. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_9K1KRBHSTXN0PQ1A87ZTY6K97H.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2023foody6k97h, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Food waste and food waste prevention}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_9K1KRBHSTXN0PQ1A87ZTY6K97H}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Food\_waste\_and\_food\_waste\_prevention\_-\_estimates. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Food waste and food waste prevention
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Highlights
- Retrieved
- 18 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_9K1KRBHSTXN0PQ1A87ZTY6K97H