Is the EU on track to cut food waste by 30% by 2030?
The EU has promised to cut food waste in homes, shops and restaurants by 30% per person by 2030. Each country is measured against its own 2021–2023 average. Here is where every country stands, and where it lands if nothing changes.
Every country against its 2030 target
Food waste per person in homes, shops and restaurants, kg per year. Click a country for its full story.
How this works
The target
Directive (EU) 2025/1892 requires each member state to cut food waste per person in retail, restaurants, food services and households by 30% by 2030, against its own 2021–2023 average. A separate 10% target covers processing and manufacturing; it is not shown here.
Today's pace
A straight-line trend through 2021–2024, extended to 2030. With only three or four years of data, read it as a direction, not a forecast. 2020 is left out: Covid closed restaurants and moved eating into homes.
Caveats
Countries measure food waste differently, so compare each country with itself rather than with its neighbours. Figures include inedible parts such as bones and peel. Where household waste falls by 20% or more in a single year, the trend is marked as unreliable: behaviour rarely moves that fast, a change in measurement often does.
Data
Eurostat env_wasfw (food waste, tonnes) divided by the average of demo_pjan population for the year. Built from the latest Eurostat release shown at the top of the page. Download the data (JSON).