Australia vs Namibia: Fish discards

Australia

21,571

in 2018

Namibia

21,602

in 2018

Australia rank

48th

Namibia rank

47th

Fish discards over time

Australia
Namibia

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 21,602 against 21,571 in Australia, a difference of 31.1.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 48th and Namibia ranks 47th of 161 countries.

Individual pages

Fish discards in Australia
Fish discards in Namibia
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.