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Distribution of global plastic materials production in 2024, by region

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October 2025

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2024

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Based on total global production of 430.9 million metric tons

Supplementary notes

* Includes Asian countries (except China and Japan), Oceania, Turkey, and Ukraine.
** Commonwealth of Independent States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Estimated data.
Figures include fossil-based, recycled (mechanically and chemically), bio-based and bio-attributed plastics

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China accounted for percent of global plastic materials production in 2024, making it the world's largest plastic producer by far. The rest of Asia accounted for an additional percent, while North America held another **** percent share of global plastic production. The total worldwide production of plastics surpassed *million metric tons in 2024.

Plastic: the material to replace many

Plastics are used in almost every segment of life – from everyday life to industrial applications. On a global level, plastics have displaced many traditional materials, such as wood, stone, horn and bone, leather, paper, metal, glass, and ceramic. Global plastics use is projected to continue rising over the coming decades to reach more than *** billion metric tons by 2060.

China: the plastic leader

As the leading manufacturing economy and exporter of goods in the world, it is not surprising that China is the world’s largest producer of plastic as well. China's monthly production of plastics ranges between *** and ** million metric tons.