Table 3. Countries with the highest mismanaged plastic waste generated by coastal populations in 2016.

The two U.S. estimates (bold text) provide lower and upper bounds reflecting contributions from domestic litter (0.31 Mt), domestic illegal dumping (0.05 to 0.15 Mt), and inadequate management of plastic waste generated during the processing of imported U.S. plastic and paper scrap in countries with greater than 20% inadequately managed waste (0.15 to 0.99 Mt). Mt, million metric tons. HIC, high income; UMC, upper middle income; LMC, lower middle income.

Country	Mismanaged plastic waste (Mt)	Income status	Coastal population (millions)	Per capita plastic waste generation (kg/day)	% Plastic in solid waste	% Mismanaged waste
Indonesia	4.28	LMC	202.49	0.68	14.0	61
India	3.16	LMC	201.20	0.57	9.5	79
United States, upper bound	1.45	HIC	117.94	2.72	13.1	2.98
Thailand	1.16	UMC	26.73	1.08	17.6	62
China	1.07	UMC	270.94	0.44	9.8	25
Brazil	1.03	UMC	78.68	1.05	13.5	25
Philippines	1.01	LMC	92.06	0.39	10.6	74
Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.71	LMC	24.82	0.68	13.0	90
Japan	0.67	HIC	114.26	0.96	11.0	15
Russian Federation	0.62	UMC	10.93	1.13	14.2	98
Vietnam	0.57	LMC	59.46	0.34	12.2	64
United States, lower bound	0.51	HIC	117.94	2.72	13.1	2.33
Bangladesh	0.36	LMC	75.87	0.28	4.7	97
Kuwait	0.35	HIC	3.03	1.59	20.0	100
Oman	0.35	HIC	3.83	1.18	21.0	100
Dominican Republic	0.33	UMC	8.83	1.11	10.0	94
Malaysia	0.33	UMC	24.90	1.23	15.0	20
Mexico	0.27	UMC	24.48	1.20	10.9	23
Argentina	0.26	HIC	17.58	1.14	14.6	25
Peru	0.25	UMC	14.67	0.77	10.5	58
Italy	0.25	HIC	34.59	1.31	11.6	13