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Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content), per square kilometre by country

Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
167
Highest
1,422 kg per square kilometre
Ireland
Lowest
0.0452 kg per square kilometre
Equatorial Guinea
Median
14.13 kg per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content), per square kilometre is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 1,422 kg per square kilometre in Ireland; the lowest is 0.0452 kg per square kilometre in Equatorial Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 14.13 kg per square kilometre, and the mean is 90.24 kg per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 31,500.

Over the past decade 80 countries rose and 87 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine (up 110.2%), and the largest decrease in Jamaica (down 71.6%).

Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ireland 1,422 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
2 Luxembourg 1,180 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
3 Belgium 1,117 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% falling
4 Malta 850.79 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% rising
5 Switzerland 676.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% falling
6 Denmark 657.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% falling
7 Germany 542.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% falling
8 France 438.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.7% falling
9 Austria 365.77 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.6% falling
10 Italy 336.08 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% falling
11 Uzbekistan 330.88 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 40.4% rising
12 Slovenia 328.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% falling
13 Poland 306.76 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% falling
14 Belarus 306.73 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% falling
15 Albania 291.57 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 37.8% rising
16 Czechia 246.85 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% falling
17 New Zealand 244.7 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% rising
18 Portugal 217.65 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% rising
19 Tajikistan 200.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.4% rising
20 Serbia 178.91 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 17.4% falling
21 El Salvador 174.1 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 62.8% rising
22 Lithuania 173.56 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 24.4% falling
23 Bangladesh 171.77 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
24 Costa Rica 160.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.8% volatile
25 Spain 159.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.8% flat
26 Romania 138.01 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% falling
27 Hungary 137.25 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% falling
28 Myanmar 135.52 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 32.3% rising
29 Montenegro 132.32 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% falling
30 North Macedonia 127.84 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 37.6% flat
31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 125.55 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 35.6% falling
32 Slovakia 124.93 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
33 Dominican Republic 118.9 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 29.0% rising
34 Cambodia 112.68 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 10.2% rising
35 Kyrgyzstan 103.83 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 27.4% rising
36 Croatia 101.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 29.5% falling
37 Dominica 101.14 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% volatile
38 Latvia 100.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
39 Estonia 99.1 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% falling
40 Japan 98.04 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
41 Nicaragua 85.19 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% volatile
42 Bulgaria 78.98 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% falling
43 Indonesia 74.69 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 46.5% rising
44 Haiti 71.66 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
45 China 70.18 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% rising
46 Thailand 70.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.9% rising
47 Ukraine 69.36 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 49.3% volatile
48 Barbados 68.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.0% falling
49 Guatemala 68.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.3% rising
50 Puerto Rico 68.08 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 14.0% falling
51 Philippines 63.39 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
52 Greece 63.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 14.9% falling
53 Turkmenistan 57.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 11.5% rising
54 Pakistan 56.93 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 44.8% volatile
55 India 55.83 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 29.4% rising
56 Antigua and Barbuda 54.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% rising
57 Sweden 48.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% falling
58 Honduras 46.29 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
59 Finland 43.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% falling
60 Uruguay 40.07 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
61 Tonga 39.38 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% rising
62 Fiji 38.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 27.8% rising
63 Samoa 36.81 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.9% rising
64 Norway 36.19 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% falling
65 Ecuador 34.29 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 25.4% rising
66 Colombia 32.13 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 43.9% rising
67 Faroe Islands 31.36 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% falling
68 Mongolia 31.12 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 79.5% rising
69 Cuba 30.72 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 21.0% falling
70 Uganda 26.6 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% volatile
71 Vanuatu 24.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 42.9% rising
72 Grenada 23.78 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 17.7% volatile
73 Kazakhstan 21.6 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% falling
74 Azerbaijan 20.65 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
75 Rwanda 20.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 26.4% rising
76 Panama 19.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% rising
77 Nepal 19.66 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 21.3% rising
78 Saint Kitts and Nevis 18.98 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 39.9% rising
79 Brazil 18.96 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 31.8% rising
80 Malaysia 17.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% rising
81 Ethiopia 16.18 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
82 Sri Lanka 14.74 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% falling
83 Trinidad and Tobago 14.16 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 22.0% volatile
84 Mexico 14.13 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
85 Iceland 14.05 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 15.4% falling
86 South Sudan 13.73 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 17.9% rising
87 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13.62 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 47.5% falling
88 Afghanistan 12.92 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
89 Kenya 12.42 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% rising
90 Saint Lucia 12.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.9% falling
91 Armenia 11.05 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 25.2% rising
92 Israel 10.45 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.7% rising
93 Burkina Faso 10.44 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 22.9% volatile
94 Burundi 10.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 34.5% rising
95 Australia 10.11 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% flat
96 Eswatini 9.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 15.3% flat
97 New Caledonia 9.62 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 13.1% falling
98 Guinea 8.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 48.3% volatile
99 Georgia 8.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 28.7% falling
100 Comoros 8.3 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% rising
101 Canada 7.74 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% falling
102 Chile 7.43 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.2% flat
103 Peru 7.38 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.6% rising
104 Lebanon 7.38 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.7% rising
105 Benin 7.34 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 13.0% volatile
106 Bahrain 7.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 32.9% rising
107 Eritrea 7.24 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
108 Gambia 7.13 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 34.2% rising
109 Guinea-Bissau 7.12 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.3% rising
110 French Polynesia 6.5 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.7% falling
111 Senegal 5.85 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
112 Sudan 5.79 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% flat
113 Cyprus 5.76 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 71.0% rising
114 Argentina 5.72 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 29.5% falling
115 Palestine 5.67 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 110.2% rising
116 Chad 5.54 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 69.3% volatile
117 Nigeria 5.47 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
118 Paraguay 5.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.4% rising
119 Lesotho 5.17 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 16.5% rising
120 Malawi 4.91 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 68.3% rising
121 Zimbabwe 4.35 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
122 Bhutan 4.12 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% falling
123 Madagascar 3.91 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 23.5% rising
124 Niger 3.67 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 54.1% volatile
125 Morocco 3.66 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 3.8% rising
126 Jamaica 3.59 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 71.6% volatile
127 Mali 3.11 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 42.2% rising
128 Djibouti 2.97 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% volatile
129 Ghana 2.88 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 34.3% rising
130 Sierra Leone 2.68 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
131 Belize 2.68 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
132 Tunisia 2.59 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.5% rising
133 Cameroon 2.51 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
134 Somalia 2.5 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% rising
135 Togo 2.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 15.1% rising
136 South Africa 2.21 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
137 Solomon Islands 1.97 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
138 Iraq 1.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% rising
139 Singapore 1.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% volatile
140 Guyana 1.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% rising
141 Egypt 1.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% rising
142 Central African Republic 1.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 13.4% volatile
143 Yemen 1.49 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.4% rising
144 Mauritius 1.4 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 37.7% volatile
145 Zambia 1.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
146 Qatar 1.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 62.0% rising
147 Namibia 0.9587 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 34.9% rising
148 Angola 0.9278 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 13.9% rising
149 Kuwait 0.9141 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
150 United Arab Emirates 0.9063 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% volatile
151 Bahamas 0.7046 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
152 Oman 0.7008 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% volatile
153 Jordan 0.6696 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 18.0% rising
154 Mauritania 0.6113 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
155 Sao Tome and Principe 0.574 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 24.0% falling
156 Seychelles 0.5665 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 32.5% falling
157 Mozambique 0.4905 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 43.3% falling
158 Papua New Guinea 0.4736 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.9% rising
159 Algeria 0.4245 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% rising
160 Botswana 0.2865 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 51.7% falling
161 Congo 0.1601 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% volatile
162 Saudi Arabia 0.1452 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% rising
163 Liberia 0.1263 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% rising
164 Libya 0.0719 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
165 Suriname 0.063 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 47.4% volatile
166 Gabon 0.0483 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% volatile
167 Equatorial Guinea 0.0452 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% rising

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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 — Losses from manure treated (N content) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Cattle — Losses from manure treated (N content), per square kilometre
Unit
kg per square kilometre
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 — Losses from manure treated (N content) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.