We gathered this data with desk research, searching for the average number of toilet rolls used per capita in every country in the world (full source list below).

Where data was only available in kg, we assumed the average weight of a roll of toilet paper was 227g to convert this data into rolls.

We used country population data and life expectancy data for each country from Worldometer to determine the number of rolls used per person, per year, per lifetime and for the country as a whole.

According to WorldAtlas and The Independent, an average-sized single pine tree can make around 1,500 rolls of toilet paper, so we used this estimate to determine how many trees each country needs to produce the number of toilet rolls needed for its consumption levels.

Sources

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