10 Highest Reported EU Amounts of Electrical Equipment Put on the Market per Person, 2024
Source:
Eurostat - env_waseleeos, 2024
Key Findings
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Austria leads in electrical and electronic equipment put on the market (kg/person) with 38.22 in 2024.
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Average electrical and electronic equipment put on the market (kg/person) in 2024: 33.85 · median: 34.87.
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Gap in 2024: Austria is 1.3× larger than Czechia.
About This Dataset
10 Highest Reported EU Amounts of Electrical Equipment Put on the Market per Person, 2024
Austria leads the reported 2024 observations with 38.22 kg of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market per person, narrowly ahead of Germany at 38.04 kg. Eurostat env_waseleeos is filtered to annual frequency, six-category equipment scope EE6, operation MKT and KG_HAB. This is the mass of equipment entering the market, including large appliances and photovoltaic panels, not expenditure, device counts, only consumer gadgets or e-waste already generated. Ten countries are selected from 22 with numeric data; Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Sweden are missing, not zero. There are no selected quality flags or cutoff ties. The EU aggregate is 32.44 kg/person, flagged i for metadata/information, and is not the simple mean of reported countries. Equipment put on the market and waste collected in one year concern different product cohorts, so their ratio is not an official collection or recycling rate. The October 14, 2026 Eurostat news release is verified; November electronics promotions offer plausible seasonal relevance, not measured rising search interest or a forecast of holiday sales.
Analysis
Only six of the 22 reported countries exceed the EU aggregate. Austria is 5.78 kg/person above it, or 17.82%, but leads Germany by just 0.18 kg/person. Spain records 36.03 kg/person entering the market versus 9.34 kg/person collected as e-waste: a 26.69 kg difference in annual flows, not a measured stock increase or an amount proven to be illegally discarded.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Eurostat - env_waseleeos, 2024
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2024 · 10 observations
- Measure
- electrical and electronic equipment put on the market (kg/person)
- Last updated
- 31 October 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
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