Keene Morrow (kamorrow@bren.ucsb.edu, Bren School UC Santa Barbara) for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) using the following data sources: National rate of plastic waste generation: Geyer, Roland; Jambeck, Jenna R.; Lavender Law, Kara. 2017. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made. Science Advances, Vol 3, Issue 7. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700782. Kaza, Silpa; Yao, Lisa C.; Bhada-Tata, Perinaz; Van Woerden, Frank. 2018. What a Waste 2.0 : A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050. Urban Development;. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30317. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. Further analysis and computation by Roland Geyer, Keene Morrow, and Kweku Attafuah-Wadee. Population: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2017. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision of UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 10. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H49884ZR. Accessed 25 May 2021. Country Boundaries: ArcGIS Content Team, ESRI. 2019. World Countries (Generalized). Redlands, CA: ESRI. https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/esri::world-countries-generalized. Accessed 27 May 2021.