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Cattle — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per capita by country

Cattle — Manure left on pasture that leaches (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
40.84 kg per person
Uruguay
Lowest
0.0002 kg per person
Singapore
Median
1.03 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per capita is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 40.84 kg per person in Uruguay; the lowest is 0.0002 kg per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.03 kg per person, and the mean is 2.88 kg per person.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 119 fell. The largest increase was in Costa Rica (up 73.4%), and the largest decrease in Fiji (down 60.1%).

Cattle — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 40.84 kg per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
2 New Zealand 31.82 kg per person 2023 down 20.0% falling
3 Paraguay 23.39 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% flat
4 Chad 22.72 kg per person 2023 up 19.0% rising
5 Australia 18.52 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% falling
6 South Sudan 17.2 kg per person 2023 up 16.3% rising
7 Namibia 14.39 kg per person 2023 up 3.7% falling
8 Argentina 14.03 kg per person 2023 down 0.0% falling
9 Brazil 13.13 kg per person 2023 up 7.6% rising
10 Central African Republic 11.09 kg per person 2023 up 1.6% rising
11 Nicaragua 9.04 kg per person 2023 up 8.0% falling
12 Mongolia 8.65 kg per person 2023 up 54.6% falling
13 Eritrea 7.95 kg per person 2023 down 8.9% falling
14 Niger 7.94 kg per person 2023 up 12.5% falling
15 Sudan 7.71 kg per person 2023 down 22.6% falling
16 Guinea 7.32 kg per person 2023 up 18.2% rising
17 Mali 6.97 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
18 Ethiopia 6.64 kg per person 2023 down 3.6% rising
19 Ireland 6.38 kg per person 2023 down 16.2% falling
20 Colombia 6.35 kg per person 2023 up 18.8% falling
21 Burkina Faso 5.36 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% rising
22 Eswatini 5.19 kg per person 2023 down 24.5% falling
23 Kenya 4.92 kg per person 2023 down 4.6% falling
24 Mauritania 4.85 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% volatile
25 Vanuatu 4.76 kg per person 2023 down 57.8% falling
26 Botswana 4.65 kg per person 2023 down 58.6% volatile
27 New Caledonia 4.52 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
28 Costa Rica 4.43 kg per person 2023 up 73.4% falling
29 Zimbabwe 4.31 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% falling
30 Guinea-Bissau 4.16 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% flat
31 Uganda 3.93 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
32 Panama 3.91 kg per person 2023 down 24.7% falling
33 Azerbaijan 3.8 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
34 Georgia 3.65 kg per person 2023 down 29.3% rising
35 Cuba 3.54 kg per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
36 Mexico 3.27 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% falling
37 Djibouti 3.2 kg per person 2023 down 11.1% rising
38 Somalia 3.1 kg per person 2023 down 34.7% falling
39 Honduras 3.07 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% falling
40 Samoa 3.06 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% rising
41 Dominican Republic 3.02 kg per person 2023 down 8.9% falling
42 Madagascar 2.96 kg per person 2023 down 41.9% falling
43 Belize 2.9 kg per person 2023 down 25.1% falling
44 Canada 2.85 kg per person 2023 down 19.6% falling
45 Armenia 2.63 kg per person 2023 down 23.0% rising
46 Zambia 2.62 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
47 Guatemala 2.57 kg per person 2023 up 4.7% falling
48 Senegal 2.56 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
49 Cameroon 2.47 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
50 South Africa 2.29 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
51 Ecuador 2.26 kg per person 2023 down 36.4% falling
52 Fiji 2.26 kg per person 2023 down 60.1% falling
53 Lesotho 2.23 kg per person 2023 down 33.1% falling
54 Benin 2.23 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% rising
55 Uzbekistan 2.11 kg per person 2023 up 15.3% rising
56 Dominica 2.02 kg per person 2023 up 4.7% rising
57 Peru 1.95 kg per person 2023 down 7.0% falling
58 Tonga 1.92 kg per person 2023 up 6.4% rising
59 Kazakhstan 1.85 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% falling
60 Turkmenistan 1.82 kg per person 2023 down 8.6% rising
61 Angola 1.67 kg per person 2023 down 22.6% falling
62 Chile 1.67 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
63 Haiti 1.52 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
64 Belarus 1.5 kg per person 2023 down 1.2% falling
65 Luxembourg 1.46 kg per person 2023 down 21.4% falling
66 Tajikistan 1.31 kg per person 2023 down 0.3% rising
67 Kyrgyzstan 1.31 kg per person 2023 up 4.9% rising
68 Denmark 1.31 kg per person 2023 down 15.6% falling
69 Rwanda 1.29 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% falling
70 Oman 1.29 kg per person 2023 down 9.1% falling
71 Guyana 1.27 kg per person 2023 down 19.1% volatile
72 France 1.26 kg per person 2023 down 15.2% falling
73 Gambia 1.25 kg per person 2023 down 50.0% falling
74 Malawi 1.21 kg per person 2023 up 33.4% falling
75 Myanmar 1.16 kg per person 2023 down 31.6% flat
76 El Salvador 1.16 kg per person 2023 down 26.3% falling
77 Lithuania 1.16 kg per person 2023 down 14.2% falling
78 Slovenia 1.11 kg per person 2023 down 4.6% falling
79 Iceland 1.1 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
80 Nigeria 1.1 kg per person 2023 down 14.7% falling
81 Austria 1.06 kg per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
82 Morocco 1.05 kg per person 2023 down 17.6% falling
83 Latvia 1.04 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
84 Burundi 1.03 kg per person 2023 up 17.8% volatile
85 Belgium 0.9918 kg per person 2023 down 12.1% falling
86 Sierra Leone 0.964 kg per person 2023 down 23.0% falling
87 Cyprus 0.9608 kg per person 2023 up 30.9% rising
88 Bhutan 0.9488 kg per person 2023 down 16.8% falling
89 Estonia 0.9437 kg per person 2023 down 6.8% falling
90 Switzerland 0.9207 kg per person 2023 down 11.5% falling
91 Cambodia 0.8959 kg per person 2023 down 21.5% falling
92 Israel 0.8366 kg per person 2023 down 0.1% falling
93 Ghana 0.8274 kg per person 2023 up 15.7% falling
94 Mozambique 0.8244 kg per person 2023 up 6.7% falling
95 Norway 0.8241 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
96 Pakistan 0.8048 kg per person 2023 up 23.5% flat
97 Puerto Rico 0.7577 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% falling
98 Finland 0.756 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
99 Afghanistan 0.7554 kg per person 2023 down 26.3% falling
100 Comoros 0.7417 kg per person 2023 down 16.5% volatile
101 Portugal 0.7314 kg per person 2023 up 2.3% rising
102 Germany 0.6965 kg per person 2023 down 16.6% falling
103 Togo 0.6892 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% falling
104 Tunisia 0.688 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
105 Yemen 0.6851 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% volatile
106 Saint Lucia 0.6819 kg per person 2023 down 7.2% falling
107 Iraq 0.6777 kg per person 2023 down 37.8% volatile
108 Albania 0.6762 kg per person 2023 down 35.1% falling
109 Sweden 0.6708 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
110 Spain 0.6558 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
111 Montenegro 0.6544 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% falling
112 Grenada 0.6479 kg per person 2023 up 10.8% falling
113 Jamaica 0.6291 kg per person 2023 down 10.9% falling
114 Congo 0.6127 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% rising
115 Serbia 0.6096 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
116 Suriname 0.5975 kg per person 2023 down 37.0% falling
117 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.5683 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% flat
118 Bangladesh 0.5641 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
119 Poland 0.5607 kg per person 2023 up 9.7% falling
120 Croatia 0.5489 kg per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
121 Italy 0.5384 kg per person 2023 up 4.4% falling
122 Algeria 0.5353 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% falling
123 India 0.5094 kg per person 2023 up 6.6% falling
124 French Polynesia 0.5 kg per person 2023 up 12.1% volatile
125 Nepal 0.4858 kg per person 2023 down 33.1% falling
126 North Macedonia 0.4578 kg per person 2023 down 34.4% falling
127 Barbados 0.4079 kg per person 2023 down 4.8% falling
128 Czechia 0.4041 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
129 Indonesia 0.402 kg per person 2023 up 35.3% flat
130 Libya 0.4017 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% falling
131 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3975 kg per person 2023 down 34.6% falling
132 Thailand 0.3842 kg per person 2023 down 12.7% falling
133 Antigua and Barbuda 0.3769 kg per person 2023 down 25.9% volatile
134 Egypt 0.3717 kg per person 2023 down 41.9% falling
135 Romania 0.3295 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
136 Solomon Islands 0.3226 kg per person 2023 down 23.4% volatile
137 Greece 0.3029 kg per person 2023 up 4.2% falling
138 China 0.2956 kg per person 2023 up 12.0% falling
139 Hungary 0.2938 kg per person 2023 up 16.9% falling
140 Bulgaria 0.292 kg per person 2023 up 15.7% falling
141 Trinidad and Tobago 0.2906 kg per person 2023 up 5.1% falling
142 Saudi Arabia 0.2826 kg per person 2023 up 6.0% volatile
143 Lebanon 0.256 kg per person 2023 up 3.0% falling
144 Slovakia 0.2542 kg per person 2023 down 10.2% falling
145 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2325 kg per person 2023 down 44.6% falling
146 Qatar 0.2279 kg per person 2023 up 61.9% volatile
147 Ukraine 0.2113 kg per person 2023 down 38.8% volatile
148 Faroe Islands 0.1999 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
149 Gabon 0.1979 kg per person 2023 down 20.8% volatile
150 Sri Lanka 0.186 kg per person 2023 down 4.0% falling
151 Japan 0.1844 kg per person 2023 up 2.5% flat
152 United Arab Emirates 0.1609 kg per person 2023 down 6.9% volatile
153 Papua New Guinea 0.1456 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% volatile
154 Palestine 0.1416 kg per person 2023 up 15.4% rising
155 Malta 0.1406 kg per person 2023 down 28.3% rising
156 Philippines 0.1359 kg per person 2023 down 8.2% falling
157 Malaysia 0.1231 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
158 Jordan 0.113 kg per person 2023 down 19.8% volatile
159 Kuwait 0.102 kg per person 2023 down 6.2% falling
160 Liberia 0.099 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
161 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0806 kg per person 2023 up 6.9% volatile
162 Bahrain 0.0741 kg per person 2023 down 46.6% falling
163 Seychelles 0.0563 kg per person 2023 up 19.0% volatile
164 Mauritius 0.0411 kg per person 2023 down 48.9% volatile
165 Equatorial Guinea 0.0355 kg per person 2023 down 24.3% falling
166 Bahamas 0.0156 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% volatile
167 Singapore 0.0002 kg per person 2023 down 18.9% 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 left on pasture that leaches (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 left on pasture that leaches (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Cattle — Manure left on pasture that leaches (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 left on pasture that leaches (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.