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

Cattle — Manure left on pasture 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
27.23 kg per person
Uruguay
Lowest
0.0001 kg per person
Singapore
Median
0.6879 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,689

What the numbers show

Cattle — Manure left on pasture that volatilises (N content), per capita is currently reported for 167 countries. The highest value is 27.23 kg per person in Uruguay; the lowest is 0.0001 kg per person in Singapore.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.6879 kg per person, and the mean is 1.92 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 volatilises … capita volatilises: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Uruguay 27.23 kg per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
2 New Zealand 21.21 kg per person 2023 down 20.0% falling
3 Paraguay 15.59 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% flat
4 Chad 15.15 kg per person 2023 up 19.0% rising
5 Australia 12.35 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% falling
6 South Sudan 11.47 kg per person 2023 up 16.3% rising
7 Namibia 9.59 kg per person 2023 up 3.7% falling
8 Argentina 9.35 kg per person 2023 down 0.0% falling
9 Brazil 8.75 kg per person 2023 up 7.6% rising
10 Central African Republic 7.4 kg per person 2023 up 1.6% rising
11 Nicaragua 6.03 kg per person 2023 up 8.0% falling
12 Mongolia 5.76 kg per person 2023 up 54.6% falling
13 Eritrea 5.3 kg per person 2023 down 8.9% falling
14 Niger 5.29 kg per person 2023 up 12.5% falling
15 Sudan 5.14 kg per person 2023 down 22.6% falling
16 Guinea 4.88 kg per person 2023 up 18.2% rising
17 Mali 4.65 kg per person 2023 up 3.2% falling
18 Ethiopia 4.43 kg per person 2023 down 3.6% rising
19 Ireland 4.25 kg per person 2023 down 16.2% falling
20 Colombia 4.23 kg per person 2023 up 18.8% falling
21 Burkina Faso 3.58 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% rising
22 Eswatini 3.46 kg per person 2023 down 24.5% falling
23 Kenya 3.28 kg per person 2023 down 4.6% falling
24 Mauritania 3.24 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% volatile
25 Vanuatu 3.17 kg per person 2023 down 57.8% falling
26 Botswana 3.1 kg per person 2023 down 58.6% volatile
27 New Caledonia 3.02 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
28 Costa Rica 2.96 kg per person 2023 up 73.4% falling
29 Zimbabwe 2.87 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% falling
30 Guinea-Bissau 2.77 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% flat
31 Uganda 2.62 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
32 Panama 2.61 kg per person 2023 down 24.7% falling
33 Azerbaijan 2.53 kg per person 2023 down 7.7% rising
34 Georgia 2.44 kg per person 2023 down 29.3% rising
35 Cuba 2.36 kg per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
36 Mexico 2.18 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% falling
37 Djibouti 2.13 kg per person 2023 down 11.1% rising
38 Somalia 2.07 kg per person 2023 down 34.7% falling
39 Honduras 2.05 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% falling
40 Samoa 2.04 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% rising
41 Dominican Republic 2.01 kg per person 2023 down 8.9% falling
42 Madagascar 1.98 kg per person 2023 down 41.9% falling
43 Belize 1.94 kg per person 2023 down 25.1% falling
44 Canada 1.9 kg per person 2023 down 19.6% falling
45 Armenia 1.76 kg per person 2023 down 23.0% rising
46 Zambia 1.75 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
47 Guatemala 1.71 kg per person 2023 up 4.7% falling
48 Senegal 1.7 kg per person 2023 down 18.0% falling
49 Cameroon 1.65 kg per person 2023 down 22.4% falling
50 South Africa 1.52 kg per person 2023 down 23.6% falling
51 Ecuador 1.51 kg per person 2023 down 36.4% falling
52 Fiji 1.51 kg per person 2023 down 60.1% falling
53 Lesotho 1.49 kg per person 2023 down 33.1% falling
54 Benin 1.48 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% rising
55 Uzbekistan 1.41 kg per person 2023 up 15.3% rising
56 Dominica 1.35 kg per person 2023 up 4.7% rising
57 Peru 1.3 kg per person 2023 down 7.0% falling
58 Tonga 1.28 kg per person 2023 up 6.4% rising
59 Kazakhstan 1.23 kg per person 2023 up 6.3% falling
60 Turkmenistan 1.21 kg per person 2023 down 8.6% rising
61 Angola 1.12 kg per person 2023 down 22.6% falling
62 Chile 1.11 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
63 Haiti 1.01 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
64 Belarus 0.9973 kg per person 2023 down 1.2% falling
65 Luxembourg 0.9719 kg per person 2023 down 21.4% falling
66 Tajikistan 0.8745 kg per person 2023 down 0.3% rising
67 Kyrgyzstan 0.8705 kg per person 2023 up 4.9% rising
68 Denmark 0.8701 kg per person 2023 down 15.6% falling
69 Rwanda 0.8618 kg per person 2023 up 1.1% falling
70 Oman 0.8586 kg per person 2023 down 9.1% falling
71 Guyana 0.8482 kg per person 2023 down 19.1% volatile
72 France 0.8406 kg per person 2023 down 15.2% falling
73 Gambia 0.8306 kg per person 2023 down 50.0% falling
74 Malawi 0.8097 kg per person 2023 up 33.4% falling
75 Myanmar 0.7764 kg per person 2023 down 31.6% flat
76 El Salvador 0.7751 kg per person 2023 down 26.3% falling
77 Lithuania 0.7744 kg per person 2023 down 14.2% falling
78 Slovenia 0.7395 kg per person 2023 down 4.6% falling
79 Iceland 0.7331 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
80 Nigeria 0.7306 kg per person 2023 down 14.7% falling
81 Austria 0.7083 kg per person 2023 down 12.2% falling
82 Morocco 0.6995 kg per person 2023 down 17.6% falling
83 Latvia 0.6937 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
84 Burundi 0.6879 kg per person 2023 up 17.8% volatile
85 Belgium 0.6612 kg per person 2023 down 12.1% falling
86 Sierra Leone 0.6427 kg per person 2023 down 23.0% falling
87 Cyprus 0.6405 kg per person 2023 up 30.9% rising
88 Bhutan 0.6326 kg per person 2023 down 16.8% falling
89 Estonia 0.6291 kg per person 2023 down 6.8% falling
90 Switzerland 0.6138 kg per person 2023 down 11.5% falling
91 Cambodia 0.5973 kg per person 2023 down 21.5% falling
92 Israel 0.5578 kg per person 2023 down 0.1% falling
93 Ghana 0.5516 kg per person 2023 up 15.7% falling
94 Mozambique 0.5496 kg per person 2023 up 6.7% falling
95 Norway 0.5494 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
96 Pakistan 0.5365 kg per person 2023 up 23.5% flat
97 Puerto Rico 0.5052 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% falling
98 Finland 0.504 kg per person 2023 down 15.0% falling
99 Afghanistan 0.5036 kg per person 2023 down 26.3% falling
100 Comoros 0.4945 kg per person 2023 down 16.5% volatile
101 Portugal 0.4876 kg per person 2023 up 2.3% rising
102 Germany 0.4644 kg per person 2023 down 16.6% falling
103 Togo 0.4595 kg per person 2023 down 11.7% falling
104 Tunisia 0.4586 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% falling
105 Yemen 0.4567 kg per person 2023 down 19.2% volatile
106 Saint Lucia 0.4546 kg per person 2023 down 7.2% falling
107 Iraq 0.4518 kg per person 2023 down 37.8% volatile
108 Albania 0.4508 kg per person 2023 down 35.1% falling
109 Sweden 0.4472 kg per person 2023 down 17.1% falling
110 Spain 0.4372 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% rising
111 Montenegro 0.4363 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% falling
112 Grenada 0.4319 kg per person 2023 up 10.8% falling
113 Jamaica 0.4194 kg per person 2023 down 10.9% falling
114 Congo 0.4085 kg per person 2023 down 23.5% rising
115 Serbia 0.4064 kg per person 2023 down 14.1% falling
116 Suriname 0.3983 kg per person 2023 down 37.0% falling
117 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.3789 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% flat
118 Bangladesh 0.3761 kg per person 2023 down 2.8% falling
119 Poland 0.3738 kg per person 2023 up 9.7% falling
120 Croatia 0.3659 kg per person 2023 down 2.7% falling
121 Italy 0.3589 kg per person 2023 up 4.4% falling
122 Algeria 0.3569 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% falling
123 India 0.3396 kg per person 2023 up 6.6% falling
124 French Polynesia 0.3334 kg per person 2023 up 12.1% volatile
125 Nepal 0.3239 kg per person 2023 down 33.1% falling
126 North Macedonia 0.3052 kg per person 2023 down 34.4% falling
127 Barbados 0.2719 kg per person 2023 down 4.8% falling
128 Czechia 0.2694 kg per person 2023 down 2.4% falling
129 Indonesia 0.268 kg per person 2023 up 35.3% flat
130 Libya 0.2678 kg per person 2023 down 10.3% falling
131 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.265 kg per person 2023 down 34.6% falling
132 Thailand 0.2561 kg per person 2023 down 12.7% falling
133 Antigua and Barbuda 0.2513 kg per person 2023 down 25.9% volatile
134 Egypt 0.2478 kg per person 2023 down 41.9% falling
135 Romania 0.2197 kg per person 2023 down 5.2% falling
136 Solomon Islands 0.2151 kg per person 2023 down 23.4% volatile
137 Greece 0.2019 kg per person 2023 up 4.2% falling
138 China 0.197 kg per person 2023 up 12.0% falling
139 Hungary 0.1959 kg per person 2023 up 16.9% falling
140 Bulgaria 0.1947 kg per person 2023 up 15.7% falling
141 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1937 kg per person 2023 up 5.1% falling
142 Saudi Arabia 0.1884 kg per person 2023 up 6.0% volatile
143 Lebanon 0.1707 kg per person 2023 up 3.0% falling
144 Slovakia 0.1695 kg per person 2023 down 10.2% falling
145 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.155 kg per person 2023 down 44.6% falling
146 Qatar 0.1519 kg per person 2023 up 61.9% volatile
147 Ukraine 0.1409 kg per person 2023 down 38.8% volatile
148 Faroe Islands 0.1333 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
149 Gabon 0.1319 kg per person 2023 down 20.8% volatile
150 Sri Lanka 0.124 kg per person 2023 down 4.0% falling
151 Japan 0.1229 kg per person 2023 up 2.5% flat
152 United Arab Emirates 0.1073 kg per person 2023 down 6.9% volatile
153 Papua New Guinea 0.0971 kg per person 2023 down 21.1% volatile
154 Palestine 0.0944 kg per person 2023 up 15.4% rising
155 Malta 0.0937 kg per person 2023 down 28.3% rising
156 Philippines 0.0906 kg per person 2023 down 8.2% falling
157 Malaysia 0.082 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% falling
158 Jordan 0.0753 kg per person 2023 down 19.8% volatile
159 Kuwait 0.068 kg per person 2023 down 6.2% falling
160 Liberia 0.066 kg per person 2023 down 13.2% falling
161 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0537 kg per person 2023 up 6.9% volatile
162 Bahrain 0.0494 kg per person 2023 down 46.6% falling
163 Seychelles 0.0376 kg per person 2023 up 19.0% volatile
164 Mauritius 0.0274 kg per person 2023 down 48.9% volatile
165 Equatorial Guinea 0.0237 kg per person 2023 down 24.3% falling
166 Bahamas 0.0104 kg per person 2023 up 3.1% volatile
167 Singapore 0.0001 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 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 left on pasture that volatilises (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Cattle — Manure left on pasture 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 left on pasture 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.