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Cattle — Manure applied to soils (N content), per capita by country

Cattle — Manure applied to soils (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
40.16 kg per person
Ireland
Lowest
0.0004 kg per person
Singapore
Median
0.7069 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Manure applied to soils (N content), per capita is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 40.16 kg per person in Ireland; the lowest is 0.0004 kg per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.7069 kg per person, and the mean is 2.32 kg per person.

Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 129 fell. The largest increase was in Qatar (up 70.0%), and the largest decrease in Jamaica (down 64.5%).

Cattle — Manure applied to soils (N content), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ireland 40.16 kg per person 2023 down 12.9% falling
2 Mongolia 24.31 kg per person 2023 up 48.5% falling
3 Belarus 15.46 kg per person 2023 down 1.2% falling
4 New Zealand 10.59 kg per person 2023 down 20.4% falling
5 Luxembourg 9.55 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
6 Denmark 8.91 kg per person 2023 down 14.8% falling
7 Uruguay 8.44 kg per person 2023 down 10.4% rising
8 Lithuania 7.77 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
9 France 7.73 kg per person 2023 down 15.5% falling
10 Iceland 7.45 kg per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
11 Uzbekistan 7.41 kg per person 2023 up 18.9% rising
12 Austria 6.94 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
13 Latvia 6.9 kg per person 2023 down 7.1% falling
14 Slovenia 6.88 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
15 Turkmenistan 6.66 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% rising
16 Estonia 6.33 kg per person 2023 down 9.1% falling
17 Belgium 6.27 kg per person 2023 down 9.3% falling
18 Switzerland 6.17 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
19 Poland 5.8 kg per person 2023 up 9.6% falling
20 Albania 5.71 kg per person 2023 down 30.5% rising
21 Costa Rica 5.62 kg per person 2023 down 3.9% rising
22 Nicaragua 5.43 kg per person 2023 down 8.5% rising
23 Norway 5.19 kg per person 2023 down 8.4% falling
24 Kyrgyzstan 5.17 kg per person 2023 up 3.5% rising
25 Montenegro 5.15 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% falling
26 Kazakhstan 4.96 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
27 Finland 4.94 kg per person 2023 down 15.7% falling
28 Tajikistan 4.9 kg per person 2023 down 5.5% rising
29 Germany 4.66 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% falling
30 Serbia 4.38 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
31 Portugal 4.36 kg per person 2023 up 1.4% rising
32 South Sudan 4.21 kg per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
33 Sweden 4.17 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
34 Czechia 4.17 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.98 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
36 Dominica 3.96 kg per person 2023 up 5.5% volatile
37 Australia 3.91 kg per person 2023 down 13.0% falling
38 Spain 3.86 kg per person 2023 up 3.9% falling
39 Italy 3.53 kg per person 2023 up 3.5% falling
40 Romania 3.42 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
41 North Macedonia 3.35 kg per person 2023 down 34.3% falling
42 Croatia 3.33 kg per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
43 Hungary 3.03 kg per person 2023 up 16.8% falling
44 Bulgaria 3.02 kg per person 2023 up 15.3% falling
45 Brazil 3 kg per person 2023 down 31.8% falling
46 Myanmar 2.75 kg per person 2023 down 38.5% rising
47 Slovakia 2.62 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% falling
48 Canada 2.54 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
49 Colombia 2.54 kg per person 2023 down 47.9% falling
50 Ukraine 2.19 kg per person 2023 down 38.8% volatile
51 El Salvador 1.99 kg per person 2023 up 54.9% falling
52 Cambodia 1.87 kg per person 2023 down 22.0% falling
53 Paraguay 1.85 kg per person 2023 down 15.6% rising
54 Dominican Republic 1.83 kg per person 2023 up 14.1% falling
55 Greece 1.81 kg per person 2023 down 3.1% falling
56 Honduras 1.76 kg per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
57 Ecuador 1.69 kg per person 2023 down 34.5% falling
58 Guyana 1.67 kg per person 2023 down 7.2% rising
59 Argentina 1.65 kg per person 2023 down 26.9% falling
60 Chad 1.55 kg per person 2023 up 20.5% rising
61 Faroe Islands 1.49 kg per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
62 Guatemala 1.46 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
63 Eritrea 1.34 kg per person 2023 down 9.9% rising
64 Panama 1.26 kg per person 2023 down 22.1% falling
65 Bhutan 1.26 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% falling
66 Namibia 1.22 kg per person 2023 up 2.1% falling
67 Sudan 1.12 kg per person 2023 down 21.7% falling
68 Cuba 1.11 kg per person 2023 down 18.8% falling
69 Vanuatu 1.1 kg per person 2023 down 56.5% falling
70 Pakistan 1.04 kg per person 2023 up 23.5% falling
71 Peru 1.02 kg per person 2023 down 4.5% falling
72 Chile 1.02 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
73 Malta 0.9773 kg per person 2023 down 28.5% flat
74 New Caledonia 0.9002 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
75 Central African Republic 0.8954 kg per person 2023 up 2.5% rising
76 Antigua and Barbuda 0.8853 kg per person 2023 down 34.5% falling
77 Niger 0.8673 kg per person 2023 up 8.2% falling
78 Afghanistan 0.8449 kg per person 2023 down 24.3% falling
79 Mexico 0.8326 kg per person 2023 up 2.7% falling
80 Thailand 0.8229 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
81 Indonesia 0.819 kg per person 2023 up 34.0% flat
82 China 0.8112 kg per person 2023 up 16.5% flat
83 Mali 0.7828 kg per person 2023 up 4.8% rising
84 Bangladesh 0.7069 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
85 Eswatini 0.7048 kg per person 2023 down 21.7% falling
86 Fiji 0.6865 kg per person 2023 down 46.4% falling
87 Guinea 0.6836 kg per person 2023 up 14.3% rising
88 Ethiopia 0.6825 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% rising
89 Nepal 0.6691 kg per person 2023 down 35.8% falling
90 Puerto Rico 0.669 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% volatile
91 Kenya 0.6643 kg per person 2023 down 20.7% falling
92 India 0.6457 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% falling
93 Samoa 0.641 kg per person 2023 down 23.4% rising
94 Mauritania 0.6354 kg per person 2023 down 14.3% volatile
95 Haiti 0.6306 kg per person 2023 down 7.3% falling
96 Burkina Faso 0.6104 kg per person 2023 down 3.7% rising
97 Belize 0.6061 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
98 Azerbaijan 0.5685 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
99 Uganda 0.5651 kg per person 2023 down 16.7% rising
100 Georgia 0.5512 kg per person 2023 down 29.4% rising
101 Zimbabwe 0.5107 kg per person 2023 down 11.9% falling
102 Japan 0.4968 kg per person 2023 down 0.5% falling
103 Guinea-Bissau 0.4535 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
104 Somalia 0.4382 kg per person 2023 down 35.4% falling
105 Armenia 0.4039 kg per person 2023 down 22.7% rising
106 Tonga 0.3887 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
107 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3736 kg per person 2023 down 39.3% falling
108 Barbados 0.3692 kg per person 2023 down 13.1% falling
109 Madagascar 0.3648 kg per person 2023 down 40.6% falling
110 Lesotho 0.3567 kg per person 2023 down 24.0% falling
111 Senegal 0.311 kg per person 2023 down 27.1% falling
112 Benin 0.2985 kg per person 2023 down 14.8% rising
113 Djibouti 0.2744 kg per person 2023 down 12.9% rising
114 Philippines 0.2652 kg per person 2023 down 8.0% falling
115 Botswana 0.2647 kg per person 2023 down 58.1% volatile
116 Malaysia 0.2628 kg per person 2023 down 20.6% falling
117 Grenada 0.2576 kg per person 2023 up 13.8% volatile
118 Morocco 0.2394 kg per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
119 Sri Lanka 0.2384 kg per person 2023 down 6.4% falling
120 Zambia 0.2253 kg per person 2023 down 11.2% falling
121 Oman 0.205 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% falling
122 South Africa 0.195 kg per person 2023 down 20.0% falling
123 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1911 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% rising
124 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1868 kg per person 2023 down 44.0% falling
125 Tunisia 0.1854 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% falling
126 Cameroon 0.1847 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
127 Rwanda 0.1822 kg per person 2023 up 0.4% rising
128 Saint Lucia 0.165 kg per person 2023 down 10.4% falling
129 Cyprus 0.1463 kg per person 2023 up 27.0% rising
130 Angola 0.145 kg per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
131 Israel 0.1376 kg per person 2023 up 1.6% falling
132 Gambia 0.1287 kg per person 2023 down 48.3% falling
133 Algeria 0.1208 kg per person 2023 down 20.2% falling
134 Sierra Leone 0.1135 kg per person 2023 down 22.2% falling
135 Yemen 0.1116 kg per person 2023 down 18.9% volatile
136 Iraq 0.1113 kg per person 2023 down 39.1% volatile
137 French Polynesia 0.1064 kg per person 2023 up 9.7% volatile
138 Nigeria 0.1029 kg per person 2023 down 19.3% falling
139 Malawi 0.0995 kg per person 2023 up 27.3% falling
140 Libya 0.0962 kg per person 2023 down 17.7% flat
141 Ghana 0.0956 kg per person 2023 up 7.1% falling
142 Comoros 0.0908 kg per person 2023 down 20.6% falling
143 Burundi 0.088 kg per person 2023 down 2.1% volatile
144 Egypt 0.0815 kg per person 2023 down 24.0% falling
145 Solomon Islands 0.0776 kg per person 2023 down 23.3% volatile
146 Suriname 0.0751 kg per person 2023 down 49.1% volatile
147 Togo 0.073 kg per person 2023 down 2.6% falling
148 Jamaica 0.0679 kg per person 2023 down 64.5% volatile
149 Bahamas 0.0608 kg per person 2023 down 10.5% volatile
150 Mozambique 0.0461 kg per person 2023 up 6.8% volatile
151 Saudi Arabia 0.0451 kg per person 2023 up 13.5% volatile
152 Qatar 0.0384 kg per person 2023 up 70.0% volatile
153 Lebanon 0.0368 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% volatile
154 Congo 0.0362 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% rising
155 Papua New Guinea 0.0296 kg per person 2023 down 21.3% volatile
156 Gabon 0.0252 kg per person 2023 down 30.8% volatile
157 United Arab Emirates 0.0249 kg per person 2023 down 5.8% volatile
158 Palestine 0.0209 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% rising
159 Jordan 0.0167 kg per person 2023 down 20.4% volatile
160 Kuwait 0.0163 kg per person 2023 down 4.2% flat
161 Mauritius 0.0128 kg per person 2023 down 35.7% volatile
162 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0125 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
163 Seychelles 0.0119 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% volatile
164 Liberia 0.0108 kg per person 2023 down 14.3% falling
165 Bahrain 0.0107 kg per person 2023 down 47.2% falling
166 Equatorial Guinea 0.0032 kg per person 2023 down 26.5% falling
167 Singapore 0.0004 kg per person 2023 down 18.4% 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 — Manure applied to soils (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 — Manure applied to soils (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Cattle — Manure applied to soils (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 — Manure applied to soils (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.