Argentina vs Guinea: Fish discards

Argentina
77,582
in 2018
Guinea
85,618
in 2018
Argentina rank
20th
Guinea rank
17th

Fish discards over time

  • Argentina
  • Guinea
050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k195019842018

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 85,618 against 77,582 in Argentina, a difference of 8,036.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Argentina's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 20th and Guinea ranks 17th of 161 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Fish discards
Source
Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
161 places, 9,371 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed

Discards are animals thrown back (alive or dead) into the sea after being caught during fishing activities. This represents bycatch (fish caught unintentionally) that is not brought ashore for use.