The latest report prepared by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) confirms that more than 579,000 tons of food are wasted in the country. The report was published at the end of March.
With the publication of this report, a comparison is made to the data obtained in 2022 and it is estimated that not all countries have updated information and that a real balance of all the food that is wasted is obtained. .
With the category of low confidence in the statistics for El Salvador, the United Nations considers that every year there is an approximate waste of 579,084 tons of food, which means that there is an average of 91 kilograms per person.
UNEP makes a comparison of the first results of 2021 and where it was reported that 516,828 tons were lost and now 579,084, which means that it increased by 62,256 tons in the three years.
At the Central American level, El Salvador ranks fourth in wasting food. Firstly, Guatemala has the highest amount of wasted food at more than 1.6 million tons annually, then Honduras with 940,257, Nicaragua with 626,538, Costa Rica with 473,131 and Panama with 445,347.
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