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What are the most dominating cities in their countries?

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What are the most dominating cities in their countries?

San Juan metro area accounts for more than 3 quarters of the population of Puerto Rico. Same with the Kuwait City metro area in Kuwait.

What: Population distribution between the largest city, the urban area without the largest city, and the rural population. Metro area is meant by the largest city in most cases.
When: 2019
Where: Top ranking countries except one-city countries (like Singapore) from the whole world. Some countries with a total of 26 million inhabitants were excepted because they do not have needed statistics in the Worldbank database. Many of them are small, possibly one-city countries.
Source: Worldbank for numbers, Wikipedia for names.

Are the largest cities dominating their countries?

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Are the largest cities dominating their countries?

There are countries where they do, with notable examples being Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Djibouti, Mongolia and Uruguay.

Since rural populations are declining everywhere, relative weights of urban populations, as well as those in the largest cities, are increasing, so largest cities now are more dominating than they were in the ’60s.

The most concentrated region seems to be East Asia, but that is because they have Hong Kong and Macao with almost 100% of people living in the only city.

What: Median proportion of the population in the largest city, the urban area without the largest city, and the rural population.
When: 1960 and 2019
Where: The whole world, with some exceptions having a total of 26 million inhabitants, the biggest being Botswana, Lesotho and Slovenia. Many of those exceptions are small, possibly one-city countries which do not have needed statistics in the Worldbank database.
Source: Worldbank

Is Europe reducing unrecycled waste?

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Is Europe reducing unrecycled waste?

Whether the total amount of waste would decrease or increase, it would still be nice if amounts of UNRECYCLED waste decreased. If compared to 2004 it decreased, but if compared to 2010 it is increasing in spite of higher recycling rates.

What: Waste recycled or refilled in total waste generated.
When: 2004, 2010 and 2016
Where: Europe
Source: Eurostat

Which type of waste is best recycled or refilled?

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Which type of waste is best recycled or refilled?

Metallic and glass waste. It’s probably quite easy to reuse metal and refill glass containers.
The least recycled are mixed ordinary wastes of which almost half are generated by households (as seen in the previous chart).

May it be the motivation for sorting – if more mixed waste became recyclable waste, more would be … recycled.

What: Waste recycled or refilled in total waste generated.
When: 2016
Where: Europe
Source: Eurostat

What kind of waste do people generate?

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What kind of waste do people generate?

Mostly mineral and solidified wastes from business activities. Here goes waste from construction and demolition activities, combustion wastes, soils.
Mixed ordinary wastes are the second – almost half of it is generated by households.
The only type of waste where households produce more than half of the output is plastic.

What: Waste generated, tonnes.
When: 2016
Where: European countries
Source: Eurostat

Do richer countries produce more waste?

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If the waste generated per GDP euro is compared to GDP per capita, then no trend is visible. Seems that required additional waste for additional euro per capita is more or less fixed (at least in Europe) except for 4 countries.

Math goes like this: to increase GDP per capita in 1 €, the total amount of waste should increase by w/(GDP per capita), where w is the current total amount of waste. Then the additional amount of waste is equal to (waste per GDP euro) * population.

What: Waste generated, tonnes per GDP euro & GDP, chain-linked volumes (2010), euro per capita
When: 2016
Where: European countries.
Source: Eurostat

Do richer countries produce more waste?

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If waste generated is compared to GDP (both per capita), then some positive trend is visible, but still there are too many outliers to draw conclusions. Amounts of waste each country generates depend on specific features of that country.

What: Waste generated, kilograms per capita & GDP, chain-linked volumes (2010), euro per capita
When: 2016
Where: European countries
Source: Eurostat