Japan vs Peru: Fish discards

Japan

414,441

in 2018

Peru

326,784

in 2018

Japan rank

5th

Peru rank

7th

Fish discards over time

Japan
Peru

How they compare

Japan currently reports 414,441 against 326,784 in Peru, a difference of 87,657.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.3 times Peru's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 5th and Peru ranks 7th of 161 countries.

Individual pages

Fish discards in Japan
Fish discards in Peru
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.