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

Cattle — 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
167
Highest
8.03 kg per person
Ireland
Lowest
0.0001 kg per person
Singapore
Median
0.1414 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Manure applied to soils that volatilises (N content), per capita is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 8.03 kg per person in Ireland; the lowest is 0.0001 kg per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1414 kg per person, and the mean is 0.4636 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 … capita volatilises: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ireland 8.03 kg per person 2023 down 12.9% falling
2 Mongolia 4.86 kg per person 2023 up 48.5% falling
3 Belarus 3.09 kg per person 2023 down 1.2% falling
4 New Zealand 2.12 kg per person 2023 down 20.4% falling
5 Luxembourg 1.91 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
6 Denmark 1.78 kg per person 2023 down 14.8% falling
7 Uruguay 1.69 kg per person 2023 down 10.4% rising
8 Lithuania 1.55 kg per person 2023 down 18.5% falling
9 France 1.55 kg per person 2023 down 15.5% falling
10 Iceland 1.49 kg per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
11 Uzbekistan 1.48 kg per person 2023 up 18.9% rising
12 Austria 1.39 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
13 Latvia 1.38 kg per person 2023 down 7.1% falling
14 Slovenia 1.38 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
15 Turkmenistan 1.33 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% rising
16 Estonia 1.27 kg per person 2023 down 9.1% falling
17 Belgium 1.25 kg per person 2023 down 9.3% falling
18 Switzerland 1.23 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
19 Poland 1.16 kg per person 2023 up 9.6% falling
20 Albania 1.14 kg per person 2023 down 30.5% rising
21 Costa Rica 1.12 kg per person 2023 down 3.9% rising
22 Nicaragua 1.09 kg per person 2023 down 8.5% rising
23 Norway 1.04 kg per person 2023 down 8.4% falling
24 Kyrgyzstan 1.03 kg per person 2023 up 3.5% rising
25 Montenegro 1.03 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% falling
26 Kazakhstan 0.9918 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
27 Finland 0.9874 kg per person 2023 down 15.7% falling
28 Tajikistan 0.9803 kg per person 2023 down 5.5% rising
29 Germany 0.9329 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% falling
30 Serbia 0.8766 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
31 Portugal 0.8716 kg per person 2023 up 1.4% rising
32 South Sudan 0.8415 kg per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
33 Sweden 0.8343 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
34 Czechia 0.8335 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.7959 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
36 Dominica 0.7923 kg per person 2023 up 5.5% volatile
37 Australia 0.7824 kg per person 2023 down 13.0% falling
38 Spain 0.772 kg per person 2023 up 3.9% falling
39 Italy 0.7054 kg per person 2023 up 3.5% falling
40 Romania 0.684 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
41 North Macedonia 0.6708 kg per person 2023 down 34.3% falling
42 Croatia 0.6659 kg per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
43 Hungary 0.6066 kg per person 2023 up 16.8% falling
44 Bulgaria 0.6035 kg per person 2023 up 15.3% falling
45 Brazil 0.6009 kg per person 2023 down 31.8% falling
46 Myanmar 0.5507 kg per person 2023 down 38.5% rising
47 Slovakia 0.5244 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% falling
48 Canada 0.5089 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
49 Colombia 0.508 kg per person 2023 down 47.9% falling
50 Ukraine 0.4385 kg per person 2023 down 38.8% volatile
51 El Salvador 0.3982 kg per person 2023 up 54.9% falling
52 Cambodia 0.3742 kg per person 2023 down 22.0% falling
53 Paraguay 0.3695 kg per person 2023 down 15.6% rising
54 Dominican Republic 0.3657 kg per person 2023 up 14.1% falling
55 Greece 0.361 kg per person 2023 down 3.1% falling
56 Honduras 0.3529 kg per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
57 Ecuador 0.3386 kg per person 2023 down 34.5% falling
58 Guyana 0.3347 kg per person 2023 down 7.2% rising
59 Argentina 0.329 kg per person 2023 down 26.9% falling
60 Chad 0.3105 kg per person 2023 up 20.5% rising
61 Faroe Islands 0.2971 kg per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
62 Guatemala 0.2927 kg per person 2023 down 9.0% falling
63 Eritrea 0.2675 kg per person 2023 down 9.9% rising
64 Panama 0.2521 kg per person 2023 down 22.1% falling
65 Bhutan 0.2513 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% falling
66 Namibia 0.244 kg per person 2023 up 2.1% falling
67 Sudan 0.2232 kg per person 2023 down 21.7% falling
68 Cuba 0.2214 kg per person 2023 down 18.8% falling
69 Vanuatu 0.2192 kg per person 2023 down 56.5% falling
70 Pakistan 0.2076 kg per person 2023 up 23.5% falling
71 Peru 0.2037 kg per person 2023 down 4.5% falling
72 Chile 0.203 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
73 Malta 0.1955 kg per person 2023 down 28.5% flat
74 New Caledonia 0.18 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
75 Central African Republic 0.1791 kg per person 2023 up 2.5% rising
76 Antigua and Barbuda 0.1771 kg per person 2023 down 34.5% falling
77 Niger 0.1735 kg per person 2023 up 8.2% falling
78 Afghanistan 0.169 kg per person 2023 down 24.3% falling
79 Mexico 0.1665 kg per person 2023 up 2.7% falling
80 Thailand 0.1646 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
81 Indonesia 0.1638 kg per person 2023 up 34.0% flat
82 China 0.1622 kg per person 2023 up 16.5% flat
83 Mali 0.1566 kg per person 2023 up 4.8% rising
84 Bangladesh 0.1414 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
85 Eswatini 0.141 kg per person 2023 down 21.7% falling
86 Fiji 0.1373 kg per person 2023 down 46.4% falling
87 Guinea 0.1367 kg per person 2023 up 14.3% rising
88 Ethiopia 0.1365 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% rising
89 Nepal 0.1338 kg per person 2023 down 35.8% falling
90 Puerto Rico 0.1338 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% volatile
91 Kenya 0.1329 kg per person 2023 down 20.7% falling
92 India 0.1291 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% falling
93 Samoa 0.1282 kg per person 2023 down 23.4% rising
94 Mauritania 0.1271 kg per person 2023 down 14.3% volatile
95 Haiti 0.1261 kg per person 2023 down 7.3% falling
96 Burkina Faso 0.1221 kg per person 2023 down 3.7% rising
97 Belize 0.1212 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
98 Azerbaijan 0.1137 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
99 Uganda 0.113 kg per person 2023 down 16.7% rising
100 Georgia 0.1102 kg per person 2023 down 29.4% rising
101 Zimbabwe 0.1021 kg per person 2023 down 11.9% falling
102 Japan 0.0994 kg per person 2023 down 0.5% falling
103 Guinea-Bissau 0.0907 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
104 Somalia 0.0876 kg per person 2023 down 35.4% falling
105 Armenia 0.0808 kg per person 2023 down 22.7% rising
106 Tonga 0.0777 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
107 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0747 kg per person 2023 down 39.3% falling
108 Barbados 0.0738 kg per person 2023 down 13.1% falling
109 Madagascar 0.073 kg per person 2023 down 40.6% falling
110 Lesotho 0.0713 kg per person 2023 down 24.0% falling
111 Senegal 0.0622 kg per person 2023 down 27.1% falling
112 Benin 0.0597 kg per person 2023 down 14.8% rising
113 Djibouti 0.0549 kg per person 2023 down 12.9% rising
114 Philippines 0.053 kg per person 2023 down 8.0% falling
115 Botswana 0.0529 kg per person 2023 down 58.1% volatile
116 Malaysia 0.0526 kg per person 2023 down 20.6% falling
117 Grenada 0.0515 kg per person 2023 up 13.8% volatile
118 Morocco 0.0479 kg per person 2023 down 13.3% falling
119 Sri Lanka 0.0477 kg per person 2023 down 6.4% falling
120 Zambia 0.0451 kg per person 2023 down 11.2% falling
121 Oman 0.041 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% falling
122 South Africa 0.039 kg per person 2023 down 20.0% falling
123 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0382 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% rising
124 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0374 kg per person 2023 down 44.0% falling
125 Tunisia 0.0371 kg per person 2023 down 16.4% falling
126 Cameroon 0.0369 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
127 Rwanda 0.0364 kg per person 2023 up 0.4% rising
128 Saint Lucia 0.033 kg per person 2023 down 10.4% falling
129 Cyprus 0.0293 kg per person 2023 up 27.0% rising
130 Angola 0.029 kg per person 2023 down 17.4% falling
131 Israel 0.0275 kg per person 2023 up 1.6% falling
132 Gambia 0.0257 kg per person 2023 down 48.3% falling
133 Algeria 0.0242 kg per person 2023 down 20.2% falling
134 Sierra Leone 0.0227 kg per person 2023 down 22.2% falling
135 Yemen 0.0223 kg per person 2023 down 18.9% volatile
136 Iraq 0.0223 kg per person 2023 down 39.2% volatile
137 French Polynesia 0.0213 kg per person 2023 up 9.7% volatile
138 Nigeria 0.0206 kg per person 2023 down 19.3% falling
139 Malawi 0.0199 kg per person 2023 up 27.3% falling
140 Libya 0.0192 kg per person 2023 down 17.7% flat
141 Ghana 0.0191 kg per person 2023 up 7.1% falling
142 Comoros 0.0182 kg per person 2023 down 20.6% falling
143 Burundi 0.0176 kg per person 2023 down 2.1% volatile
144 Egypt 0.0163 kg per person 2023 down 24.0% falling
145 Solomon Islands 0.0155 kg per person 2023 down 23.3% volatile
146 Suriname 0.015 kg per person 2023 down 49.1% volatile
147 Togo 0.0146 kg per person 2023 down 2.6% falling
148 Jamaica 0.0136 kg per person 2023 down 64.5% volatile
149 Bahamas 0.0122 kg per person 2023 down 10.5% volatile
150 Mozambique 0.0092 kg per person 2023 up 6.8% volatile
151 Saudi Arabia 0.009 kg per person 2023 up 13.5% volatile
152 Qatar 0.0077 kg per person 2023 up 70.0% volatile
153 Lebanon 0.0074 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% volatile
154 Congo 0.0072 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% rising
155 Papua New Guinea 0.0059 kg per person 2023 down 21.3% volatile
156 Gabon 0.005 kg per person 2023 down 30.8% volatile
157 United Arab Emirates 0.005 kg per person 2023 down 5.8% volatile
158 Palestine 0.0042 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% rising
159 Jordan 0.0033 kg per person 2023 down 20.4% volatile
160 Kuwait 0.0033 kg per person 2023 down 4.2% flat
161 Mauritius 0.0026 kg per person 2023 down 35.7% volatile
162 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0025 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
163 Seychelles 0.0024 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% volatile
164 Liberia 0.0022 kg per person 2023 down 14.3% falling
165 Bahrain 0.0021 kg per person 2023 down 47.2% falling
166 Equatorial Guinea 0.0006 kg per person 2023 down 26.5% falling
167 Singapore 0.0001 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 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.

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

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Indicator
Cattle — 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
169 places, 9,689 data points, 1961–2023
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Cattle — 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.