EU-27: plastic primary forms turnover by country

In 2020, German manufacturers of primary form plastics had the highest turnover among EU-27 countries at just over 20.8 billion euros. The Netherlands, Italy, and Spain ranked behind Germany. The same year, primary form plastics manufacturing in the European Union (EU-27) generated a turnover of 79.4 billion euros.

Annual turnover of the manufacture of plastic in primary forms in the European Union (EU-27) in 2020, by country (in million euros)

Characteristic	Annual turnover in million euros
Germany	20,823.7
Netherlands	12,512.6
Italy	7,637.4
Spain	7,420.7
France	6,392.3
Austria	6,196.3
Belgium	4,889.4
Poland	3,005.7
Sweden	1,968.5
Portugal	1,330.8

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March 2023

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2011 to 2020

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* Provisional data.
The source adds the following information: "Turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties; it includes all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit with the exception of the VAT invoiced by the unit to its customer and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover; it also includes all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) passed on to the customer. Price reductions, rebates and discounts as well as the value of returned packing must be deducted."
Data coverage corresponds to code C2016 of NACE Rev. 2.

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