Plastic production growth worldwide vs population growth worldwide 2013-2020
Annual increases in global plastics production consistently outpaced population growth between 2013 and 2019. In 2019, the global population increased by 1.08 percent while plastic production increased 2.5 percent. However, in 2020 the outbreak of COVID-19 caused plastics production to increase by just 0.19 percent year-over-year, whereas the global population grew 1.05 percent that year.
