in the Middle East and North Africa, by Economy and Subregion, 2016

FIGURE 4.12

Average Daily Waste Generation Per Capita, Globally and in the Middle East and North Africa, by Economy and Subregion, 2016

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0 World Middle East and North AfricaMashreqMaghreb BahrainMaltaGCC Egypt, Arab Rep.Iran, Islamic Rep.IraqLibyaKuwait Lebanon AlgeriaJordan MoroccoOmanQatarSaudi Arabia Syrian Arab Republic TunisiaUnited Arab Emirates West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep.Djibouti

Source: Based on Kaza et al. 2018. Note: Orange, yellow, and gray bars designate three groups of economies within the Middle East and North Africa, respectively, as follows: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The Maghreb subregion includes Algeria, Libya, Malta, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Mashreq subregion includes Djibouti, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, West Bank and Gaza, and the Republic of Yemen. kg = kilograms.

those in the GCC subregion (figure 4.12). Residents in these countries are generating substantially more waste than the global average, while the Maghreb and Mashreq subregions, as well as the Middle East and North Africa overall, are roughly on par.

On average, plastics constitute around 12 percent of the region’s total waste, a share expected to grow with rising incomes (Kaza et al. 2018)— implying that poor SWM overall has adverse repercussions on the flow of plastics into the region’s seas. Furthermore, waste generation in the region’s cities, especially in the city-states of the GCC, is significantly higher (1.38 kg per person per day) than the region’s average (0.81 kg per person per day) (Kaza et al. 2018).

Inefficiencies, Disparities in Urban and Rural Waste Collection

In some of the region’s economies, waste collection coverage is relatively comprehensive. In some of those for which data are available, waste