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Which Country Produces the Most Wrapping Paper?

Wrapping Paper Production (kt), 2020 or latest
Paper, Pulp & Forestry | March 10, 2022
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Based on a comparison of 59 countries in 2020, China ranked the highest in wrapping paper production with 7,050,000 kt followed by USA and Sweden. On the other end of the scale was Costa Rica with 621 kt, Zambia with 1,000 kt and Iraq with 1,000 kt.

Total wrapping paper production reached 18,159,919 kt in 2020 in the World according to Faostat. This is 4.29 % less than in the previous year and 4.74 % more than 10 years ago.

Historically, total wrapping paper production reached an all time high of 26,796,162 kt in 1998 and an all time low of 14,565,928 kt in 2001. The average annual growth amounted to -1.75 % since 1998.

The top ranked country, China, accounted for 38.8 % of wrapping paper production in the world. The top 3 countries hold a 53.2 % share while the ten largest countries some 76.1 % in 2020.

Data for more countries are available at Wrapping Paper Production indicator page.

Wrapping Paper Production Unit 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Austria kt 294,710 304,612 307,822 316,994 371,057
Brazil kt 618,000 599,000 573,000 551,000 548,000
Bulgaria kt 198,100 198,197 215,516 247,000 242,404
Canada kt 343,000 350,000 214,000 271,000 281,000
China kt 6,500,000 6,650,000 6,750,000 6,950,000 6,900,000
Czechia kt 391,400 412,253 436,914 467,976 442,606
Finland kt 676,473 692,758 735,282 641,735 813,246
Germany kt 378,000 357,000 391,000 418,000 424,769
Italy kt 475,066 490,726 253,000 553,051 561,154
Japan kt 905,000 891,000 877,000 896,000 896,000
Russia kt 515,000 545,000 601,306 613,272 577,000
South Korea kt 195,000 186,000 187,000 176,000 198,000
Sweden kt 1,010,000 1,060,000 1,033,000 1,038,000 1,014,000
Turkey kt 610,526 614,741 621,054 616,843 537,059
USA kt 1,511,000 1,540,000 1,527,108 1,533,022 2,532,861

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