Estonia vs Vanuatu: Fish discards

Estonia

5,266

in 2018

Vanuatu

6,317

in 2018

Estonia rank

81st

Vanuatu rank

78th

Fish discards over time

Estonia
Vanuatu

How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 6,317 against 5,266 in Estonia, a difference of 1,051.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.2 times Estonia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Estonia ahead.

Estonia ranks 81st and Vanuatu ranks 78th of 161 countries.

Individual pages

Fish discards in Estonia
Fish discards in Vanuatu
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.