Name: Food Waste
Creator: Eurostat
License: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Copyright/licence_policy

About this Dataset

Food Waste

This Eurostat dataset contains data on food waste, as collected and published by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

Tables included:

raw: Original table as downloaded from Eurostat.
tidy: A cleaned and transformed version of the raw table, where time period values appear as rows instead of columns (unpivoted format).

Last updated: 2025-10-15T23:00:00+0200

Tables

Food Waste - Raw

@eurostat.cei_pc035.raw

8.59 kB
30 rows
10 columns

CREATE TABLE raw (
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "wst_oper" VARCHAR,
  "waste" VARCHAR,
  "nace_r2" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "geo" VARCHAR,
  "n_2020" DOUBLE  -- 2020,
  "n_2021" DOUBLE  -- 2021,
  "n_2022" DOUBLE  -- 2022,
  "n_2023" DOUBLE  -- 2023
);

Food Waste - Unpivoted

@eurostat.cei_pc035.tidy

7.29 kB
113 rows
8 columns

CREATE TABLE tidy (
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "wst_oper" VARCHAR,
  "waste" VARCHAR,
  "nace_r2" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "geo" VARCHAR,
  "time_period" VARCHAR,
  "value" DOUBLE
);