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Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (N content), per capita by country

Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (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
167
Highest
146.63 kg per person
Uruguay
Lowest
0.0012 kg per person
Singapore
Median
7.69 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (N content), per capita is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 146.63 kg per person in Uruguay; the lowest is 0.0012 kg per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 7.69 kg per person, and the mean is 13.07 kg per person.

Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 123 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 62.2%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 58.5%).

Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (N content), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 146.63 kg per person 2023 up 1.0% rising
2 New Zealand 128.33 kg per person 2023 down 20.1% falling
3 Paraguay 80.13 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% rising
4 Chad 78.92 kg per person 2023 up 19.0% rising
5 Ireland 77.67 kg per person 2023 down 13.0% falling
6 Australia 68.53 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
7 Mongolia 68.29 kg per person 2023 up 51.1% falling
8 South Sudan 64.34 kg per person 2023 up 16.1% rising
9 Namibia 50.34 kg per person 2023 up 3.7% falling
10 Argentina 48.76 kg per person 2023 down 1.6% falling
11 Brazil 47.52 kg per person 2023 up 2.8% rising
12 Central African Republic 38.75 kg per person 2023 up 1.6% rising
13 Nicaragua 37.07 kg per person 2023 up 4.5% falling
14 Eritrea 28.81 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
15 Niger 28.07 kg per person 2023 up 12.3% falling
16 Sudan 27.67 kg per person 2023 down 22.6% falling
17 Belarus 26.04 kg per person 2023 down 1.3% falling
18 Guinea 25.72 kg per person 2023 up 18.0% rising
19 Mali 24.69 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
20 Colombia 24.39 kg per person 2023 up 1.4% falling
21 Ethiopia 23.41 kg per person 2023 down 4.5% rising
22 Costa Rica 22 kg per person 2023 up 37.0% falling
23 Burkina Faso 19.01 kg per person 2023 down 11.4% rising
24 Uzbekistan 18.97 kg per person 2023 up 17.5% rising
25 Eswatini 18.56 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% falling
26 Luxembourg 18.45 kg per person 2023 down 18.6% falling
27 Vanuatu 17.87 kg per person 2023 down 57.6% falling
28 Kenya 17.58 kg per person 2023 down 5.7% falling
29 Mauritania 17.32 kg per person 2023 down 17.0% volatile
30 Denmark 17.22 kg per person 2023 down 14.8% falling
31 Turkmenistan 16.75 kg per person 2023 down 9.7% rising
32 New Caledonia 16.59 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
33 Botswana 16.08 kg per person 2023 down 58.5% volatile
34 Zimbabwe 15.3 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% falling
35 Lithuania 15.01 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
36 France 14.96 kg per person 2023 down 15.4% falling
37 Guinea-Bissau 14.71 kg per person 2023 down 13.3% flat
38 Panama 14.63 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% falling
39 Iceland 14.39 kg per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
40 Azerbaijan 14.38 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
41 Kazakhstan 14.24 kg per person 2023 down 7.1% falling
42 Uganda 14.1 kg per person 2023 down 15.1% falling
43 Georgia 13.83 kg per person 2023 down 29.3% rising
44 Canada 13.69 kg per person 2023 down 18.6% falling
45 Austria 13.41 kg per person 2023 down 10.9% falling
46 Latvia 13.33 kg per person 2023 down 7.0% falling
47 Slovenia 13.32 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
48 Cuba 13.19 kg per person 2023 down 15.3% falling
49 Kyrgyzstan 12.65 kg per person 2023 up 4.0% rising
50 Honduras 12.48 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
51 Dominican Republic 12.4 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
52 Tajikistan 12.25 kg per person 2023 down 3.6% rising
53 Estonia 12.23 kg per person 2023 down 9.1% falling
54 Belgium 12.12 kg per person 2023 down 9.4% falling
55 Mexico 11.94 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% falling
56 Switzerland 11.91 kg per person 2023 down 13.1% falling
57 Dominica 11.82 kg per person 2023 up 5.0% rising
58 Samoa 11.3 kg per person 2023 down 24.3% rising
59 Djibouti 11.19 kg per person 2023 down 11.1% rising
60 Somalia 11.11 kg per person 2023 down 34.7% falling
61 Albania 11.01 kg per person 2023 down 30.5% rising
62 Madagascar 10.54 kg per person 2023 down 41.8% falling
63 Belize 10.43 kg per person 2023 down 23.9% falling
64 Guatemala 10.43 kg per person 2023 up 2.0% falling
65 Norway 10.04 kg per person 2023 down 8.4% falling
66 Armenia 9.97 kg per person 2023 down 23.0% rising
67 Montenegro 9.93 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% falling
68 Poland 9.78 kg per person 2023 up 9.2% falling
69 Ecuador 9.7 kg per person 2023 down 36.0% falling
70 Finland 9.54 kg per person 2023 down 15.7% falling
71 Zambia 9.19 kg per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
72 Senegal 9.09 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
73 Germany 9.01 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% falling
74 Fiji 8.93 kg per person 2023 down 57.8% falling
75 Cameroon 8.61 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
76 Serbia 8.46 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
77 Portugal 8.43 kg per person 2023 up 1.4% rising
78 Myanmar 8.39 kg per person 2023 down 35.3% rising
79 Sweden 8.07 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
80 Lesotho 8.06 kg per person 2023 down 32.5% falling
81 South Africa 8 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% falling
82 Benin 7.96 kg per person 2023 down 12.0% rising
83 Peru 7.79 kg per person 2023 down 6.6% falling
84 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.69 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% falling
85 Spain 7.47 kg per person 2023 up 4.0% falling
86 Tonga 7.05 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% rising
87 Czechia 6.97 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
88 Chile 6.85 kg per person 2023 down 10.6% falling
89 Italy 6.82 kg per person 2023 up 3.5% falling
90 North Macedonia 6.47 kg per person 2023 down 34.3% falling
91 Croatia 6.44 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
92 El Salvador 6.43 kg per person 2023 down 6.8% falling
93 Guyana 6.39 kg per person 2023 down 15.4% falling
94 Bhutan 6.24 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
95 Cambodia 6.07 kg per person 2023 down 21.7% falling
96 Romania 5.88 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
97 Haiti 5.87 kg per person 2023 down 6.6% falling
98 Angola 5.86 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
99 Pakistan 5.27 kg per person 2023 up 23.5% falling
100 Hungary 5.09 kg per person 2023 up 16.5% falling
101 Bulgaria 5.09 kg per person 2023 up 13.3% falling
102 Oman 4.88 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
103 Afghanistan 4.84 kg per person 2023 down 26.0% falling
104 Rwanda 4.63 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% falling
105 Gambia 4.39 kg per person 2023 down 49.9% falling
106 Slovakia 4.39 kg per person 2023 down 10.7% falling
107 Malawi 4.24 kg per person 2023 up 33.1% falling
108 Morocco 3.9 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
109 Nigeria 3.85 kg per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
110 Ukraine 3.77 kg per person 2023 down 38.6% volatile
111 Bangladesh 3.68 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
112 Cyprus 3.64 kg per person 2023 up 30.8% rising
113 Burundi 3.61 kg per person 2023 up 16.9% volatile
114 Greece 3.49 kg per person 2023 down 3.0% falling
115 Sierra Leone 3.42 kg per person 2023 down 22.9% falling
116 Puerto Rico 3.38 kg per person 2023 down 1.7% falling
117 India 3.33 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% falling
118 Nepal 3.22 kg per person 2023 down 33.6% falling
119 Israel 3.18 kg per person 2023 down 0.0% falling
120 Ghana 2.93 kg per person 2023 up 15.3% falling
121 Faroe Islands 2.87 kg per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
122 Mozambique 2.85 kg per person 2023 up 6.7% falling
123 Indonesia 2.69 kg per person 2023 up 34.7% flat
124 Comoros 2.64 kg per person 2023 down 16.7% volatile
125 Thailand 2.63 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
126 Yemen 2.6 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% volatile
127 Tunisia 2.6 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
128 Iraq 2.57 kg per person 2023 down 37.9% volatile
129 Grenada 2.49 kg per person 2023 up 11.2% falling
130 Saint Lucia 2.48 kg per person 2023 down 7.5% falling
131 Togo 2.43 kg per person 2023 down 11.3% falling
132 Antigua and Barbuda 2.4 kg per person 2023 down 30.2% falling
133 China 2.3 kg per person 2023 up 14.4% falling
134 Jamaica 2.18 kg per person 2023 down 16.0% falling
135 Congo 2.12 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% rising
136 Suriname 2.08 kg per person 2023 down 37.7% falling
137 Algeria 1.99 kg per person 2023 down 21.0% falling
138 Malta 1.89 kg per person 2023 down 28.5% flat
139 French Polynesia 1.85 kg per person 2023 up 11.7% volatile
140 Barbados 1.83 kg per person 2023 down 7.1% falling
141 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.8 kg per person 2023 down 36.0% falling
142 Libya 1.5 kg per person 2023 down 11.1% falling
143 Japan 1.42 kg per person 2023 up 0.8% falling
144 Egypt 1.38 kg per person 2023 down 40.7% falling
145 Solomon Islands 1.22 kg per person 2023 down 23.4% volatile
146 Sri Lanka 1.22 kg per person 2023 down 4.4% falling
147 Trinidad and Tobago 1.21 kg per person 2023 down 2.0% falling
148 Saudi Arabia 1.07 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% volatile
149 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.01 kg per person 2023 down 44.5% falling
150 Lebanon 0.9669 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
151 Philippines 0.8918 kg per person 2023 down 8.1% falling
152 Qatar 0.8666 kg per person 2023 up 62.2% volatile
153 Malaysia 0.8428 kg per person 2023 down 18.4% falling
154 Gabon 0.7051 kg per person 2023 down 21.4% volatile
155 United Arab Emirates 0.6095 kg per person 2023 down 6.8% volatile
156 Papua New Guinea 0.5355 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% volatile
157 Palestine 0.5352 kg per person 2023 up 15.0% rising
158 Jordan 0.4273 kg per person 2023 down 19.8% volatile
159 Kuwait 0.3868 kg per person 2023 down 6.1% falling
160 Liberia 0.3501 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
161 Sao Tome and Principe 0.2904 kg per person 2023 up 6.6% volatile
162 Bahrain 0.2799 kg per person 2023 down 46.6% falling
163 Seychelles 0.2079 kg per person 2023 up 16.7% volatile
164 Mauritius 0.1581 kg per person 2023 down 47.6% volatile
165 Bahamas 0.1302 kg per person 2023 down 5.6% volatile
166 Equatorial Guinea 0.1246 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% falling
167 Singapore 0.0012 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% volatile

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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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Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (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.

Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (N content), per capita
Unit
kg per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
169 places, 9,689 data points, 1961–2023
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Cattle — Amount excreted in manure (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.