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All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content), per capita by country

All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
170
Highest
9.99 kg per person
Mongolia
Lowest
0.0171 kg per person
Equatorial Guinea
Median
0.5177 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,878

What the numbers show

All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content), per capita is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 9.99 kg per person in Mongolia; the lowest is 0.0171 kg per person in Equatorial Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.5177 kg per person, and the mean is 0.9177 kg per person.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 583.

Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 120 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 162.8%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 53.7%).

All Animals: Manure applied to soils … applied capita volatilises: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mongolia 9.99 kg per person 2023 up 33.1% falling
2 Ireland 8.73 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
3 Denmark 5.15 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% falling
4 Belarus 4.64 kg per person 2023 up 4.0% flat
5 New Zealand 2.55 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
6 Uruguay 2.45 kg per person 2023 up 4.0% rising
7 Turkmenistan 2.37 kg per person 2023 down 10.6% rising
8 Belgium 2.35 kg per person 2023 down 10.4% falling
9 Tuvalu 2.3 kg per person 2023 up 19.2% rising
10 France 2.25 kg per person 2023 down 16.2% falling
11 Poland 2.22 kg per person 2023 up 16.2% falling
12 Lithuania 2.18 kg per person 2023 down 17.9% falling
13 Iceland 2.08 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% falling
14 Luxembourg 2.07 kg per person 2023 down 21.6% falling
15 Guyana 2.01 kg per person 2023 up 10.0% rising
16 Spain 2 kg per person 2023 down 6.3% rising
17 Latvia 1.96 kg per person 2023 down 3.0% falling
18 Uzbekistan 1.86 kg per person 2023 up 20.2% rising
19 Austria 1.84 kg per person 2023 down 21.2% falling
20 Romania 1.81 kg per person 2023 down 7.4% falling
21 Albania 1.76 kg per person 2023 down 28.0% rising
22 Slovenia 1.74 kg per person 2023 down 8.2% falling
23 Estonia 1.74 kg per person 2023 down 13.9% falling
24 Serbia 1.71 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
25 Norway 1.69 kg per person 2023 down 9.9% falling
26 Costa Rica 1.65 kg per person 2023 down 0.6% rising
27 Switzerland 1.62 kg per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
28 Finland 1.57 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
29 Kazakhstan 1.56 kg per person 2023 down 10.6% falling
30 Germany 1.55 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
31 Nicaragua 1.55 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
32 Hungary 1.54 kg per person 2023 down 1.6% falling
33 Brazil 1.52 kg per person 2023 down 11.4% falling
34 Dominican Republic 1.49 kg per person 2023 up 26.5% rising
35 Kyrgyzstan 1.45 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% flat
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.39 kg per person 2023 down 28.5% rising
37 Montenegro 1.37 kg per person 2023 down 13.4% falling
38 Trinidad and Tobago 1.36 kg per person 2023 up 11.9% rising
39 Croatia 1.34 kg per person 2023 down 5.0% falling
40 Tonga 1.32 kg per person 2023 up 4.6% rising
41 Portugal 1.29 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% flat
42 Malawi 1.28 kg per person 2023 up 139.4% volatile
43 Colombia 1.27 kg per person 2023 down 12.4% rising
44 Australia 1.22 kg per person 2023 down 10.0% falling
45 Tajikistan 1.22 kg per person 2023 down 3.8% rising
46 Czechia 1.22 kg per person 2023 down 7.2% falling
47 Canada 1.2 kg per person 2023 down 11.1% falling
48 Barbados 1.19 kg per person 2023 up 21.8% rising
49 Dominica 1.16 kg per person 2023 up 5.8% rising
50 Paraguay 1.12 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
51 Ukraine 1.11 kg per person 2023 down 23.8% falling
52 North Macedonia 1.08 kg per person 2023 down 24.7% falling
53 Sweden 1.05 kg per person 2023 down 30.9% falling
54 Italy 1.04 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% falling
55 South Sudan 1.04 kg per person 2023 up 15.4% rising
56 Chile 0.9947 kg per person 2023 down 14.2% rising
57 Bulgaria 0.9614 kg per person 2023 down 6.8% falling
58 Pakistan 0.9348 kg per person 2023 up 34.3% rising
59 Ecuador 0.9211 kg per person 2023 down 22.2% falling
60 Myanmar 0.8787 kg per person 2023 down 40.7% rising
61 Guatemala 0.8721 kg per person 2023 down 7.4% rising
62 Central African Republic 0.857 kg per person 2023 down 3.1% rising
63 Faroe Islands 0.8561 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
64 Slovakia 0.8463 kg per person 2023 down 19.6% falling
65 Argentina 0.8401 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
66 Mexico 0.832 kg per person 2023 up 7.4% falling
67 Samoa 0.8173 kg per person 2023 down 43.2% rising
68 Greece 0.8152 kg per person 2023 down 26.5% falling
69 Panama 0.8109 kg per person 2023 up 0.4% falling
70 Fiji 0.7993 kg per person 2023 down 3.1% rising
71 Cuba 0.799 kg per person 2023 down 1.7% falling
72 Indonesia 0.7884 kg per person 2023 up 58.1% rising
73 Peru 0.7526 kg per person 2023 down 4.8% falling
74 Guinea-Bissau 0.7446 kg per person 2023 down 19.9% falling
75 China 0.7431 kg per person 2023 up 4.5% rising
76 Chad 0.7146 kg per person 2023 up 29.9% rising
77 Honduras 0.6731 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
78 El Salvador 0.6544 kg per person 2023 up 28.5% falling
79 Cyprus 0.6445 kg per person 2023 down 28.1% rising
80 Cambodia 0.6292 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% falling
81 Vanuatu 0.6263 kg per person 2023 down 47.1% falling
82 Suriname 0.6142 kg per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
83 Sao Tome and Principe 0.5645 kg per person 2023 up 8.8% volatile
84 Togo 0.5366 kg per person 2023 up 17.9% rising
85 Kiribati 0.5183 kg per person 2023 down 6.0% rising
86 Malaysia 0.5171 kg per person 2023 down 8.7% rising
87 Nepal 0.5164 kg per person 2023 down 25.7% flat
88 Belize 0.5134 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
89 New Caledonia 0.4966 kg per person 2023 down 6.7% falling
90 Bhutan 0.487 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% falling
91 Thailand 0.4718 kg per person 2023 down 4.4% falling
92 Jamaica 0.4491 kg per person 2023 down 3.6% falling
93 Namibia 0.4409 kg per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
94 Antigua and Barbuda 0.4362 kg per person 2023 down 16.5% flat
95 Uganda 0.4332 kg per person 2023 up 14.8% rising
96 Haiti 0.4044 kg per person 2023 down 9.7% falling
97 Bahamas 0.3947 kg per person 2023 up 1.4% flat
98 Burkina Faso 0.3869 kg per person 2023 down 36.5% rising
99 Mauritania 0.3864 kg per person 2023 down 16.8% falling
100 Grenada 0.3719 kg per person 2023 up 24.8% rising
101 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3707 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% rising
102 Burundi 0.3583 kg per person 2023 up 144.5% volatile
103 Eritrea 0.3563 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% rising
104 Nauru 0.3495 kg per person 2023 down 10.7% rising
105 Mali 0.348 kg per person 2023 up 12.9% rising
106 Afghanistan 0.3453 kg per person 2023 down 25.0% falling
107 Sudan 0.3426 kg per person 2023 down 22.2% falling
108 Angola 0.3398 kg per person 2023 down 1.2% rising
109 India 0.3361 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% falling
110 Saint Lucia 0.3263 kg per person 2023 up 5.8% falling
111 Madagascar 0.3202 kg per person 2023 down 3.7% falling
112 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.3193 kg per person 2023 down 6.2% rising
113 Bangladesh 0.3191 kg per person 2023 up 4.7% falling
114 Benin 0.3108 kg per person 2023 up 37.9% falling
115 Malta 0.31 kg per person 2023 down 53.7% falling
116 Georgia 0.3054 kg per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
117 Cameroon 0.305 kg per person 2023 down 7.8% rising
118 Eswatini 0.2982 kg per person 2023 down 6.4% falling
119 Papua New Guinea 0.2978 kg per person 2023 down 14.7% falling
120 Armenia 0.2895 kg per person 2023 up 4.5% rising
121 Gabon 0.2893 kg per person 2023 down 21.0% falling
122 Kuwait 0.2834 kg per person 2023 down 3.6% rising
123 French Polynesia 0.2811 kg per person 2023 up 4.9% flat
124 Niger 0.279 kg per person 2023 up 0.5% falling
125 Tunisia 0.2766 kg per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
126 Philippines 0.276 kg per person 2023 down 8.7% falling
127 Senegal 0.2725 kg per person 2023 up 1.0% rising
128 Japan 0.266 kg per person 2023 up 0.4% rising
129 Lebanon 0.2659 kg per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
130 Qatar 0.2641 kg per person 2023 up 162.8% volatile
131 Kenya 0.2632 kg per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
132 Zambia 0.2534 kg per person 2023 down 16.3% rising
133 Guinea 0.2452 kg per person 2023 up 20.6% rising
134 Mauritius 0.2445 kg per person 2023 up 18.3% volatile
135 Azerbaijan 0.24 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% falling
136 Puerto Rico 0.235 kg per person 2023 down 21.0% falling
137 Seychelles 0.2277 kg per person 2023 up 12.5% volatile
138 Somalia 0.2149 kg per person 2023 down 32.6% falling
139 Israel 0.2118 kg per person 2023 down 14.0% falling
140 Zimbabwe 0.2118 kg per person 2023 down 3.3% falling
141 Morocco 0.1984 kg per person 2023 up 1.2% rising
142 Ethiopia 0.1953 kg per person 2023 down 12.4% rising
143 Rwanda 0.1923 kg per person 2023 down 39.8% volatile
144 Nigeria 0.1905 kg per person 2023 up 4.9% rising
145 Liberia 0.1813 kg per person 2023 down 18.4% flat
146 Lesotho 0.1736 kg per person 2023 down 31.7% falling
147 Libya 0.1724 kg per person 2023 down 8.8% rising
148 Sierra Leone 0.1703 kg per person 2023 up 48.3% rising
149 Ghana 0.1631 kg per person 2023 up 17.2% rising
150 South Africa 0.1598 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
151 Saudi Arabia 0.152 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% rising
152 Algeria 0.1389 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% rising
153 Solomon Islands 0.1286 kg per person 2023 down 24.5% falling
154 Mozambique 0.1275 kg per person 2023 down 34.4% rising
155 Sri Lanka 0.1155 kg per person 2023 down 9.3% falling
156 Djibouti 0.1105 kg per person 2023 down 13.4% falling
157 Iraq 0.1101 kg per person 2023 up 28.4% falling
158 Botswana 0.105 kg per person 2023 down 48.7% volatile
159 Jordan 0.0845 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
160 Congo 0.066 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
161 Oman 0.065 kg per person 2023 down 9.6% rising
162 Gambia 0.0631 kg per person 2023 down 19.8% falling
163 Yemen 0.0618 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
164 United Arab Emirates 0.0618 kg per person 2023 down 10.0% rising
165 Egypt 0.0603 kg per person 2023 down 9.6% flat
166 Comoros 0.0389 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
167 Palestine 0.0315 kg per person 2023 down 21.9% falling
168 Singapore 0.0286 kg per person 2023 down 16.2% volatile
169 Bahrain 0.0282 kg per person 2023 up 20.4% flat
170 Equatorial Guinea 0.0171 kg per person 2023 down 20.7% falling

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content), per capita
Unit
kg per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
172 places, 9,878 data points, 1961–2023
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All Animals — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.