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Mineral fertilizers — Cropland nitrogen per unit area by country

The Cropland Nutrient balance domain contains information on the flows of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from mineral fertilizer, manure applied, atmospheric deposition, crop removal, and biological fixation over cropland and per unit area of cropland. The flows are aggregated to total inputs and total...

Countries reporting
201
Highest
306.36 kg/ha
Egypt
Lowest
0 kg/ha
Guadeloupe
Median
38.85 kg/ha
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
13,500

What the numbers show

Mineral fertilizers — Cropland nitrogen per unit area is currently reported for 201 countries. The highest value is 306.36 kg/ha in Egypt; the lowest is 0 kg/ha in Guadeloupe.

The median across all reporting countries is 38.85 kg/ha, and the mean is 50.85 kg/ha.

Over the past decade 108 countries rose and 88 fell. The largest increase was in Gambia (up 9,756.3%), and the largest decrease in Antigua and Barbuda (down 100.0%).

Mineral fertilizers — Cropland nitrogen per unit area: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Egypt 306.36 kg/ha 2023 up 3.5% rising
2 Turkmenistan 301.98 kg/ha 2023 up 51.0% volatile
3 China 198.59 kg/ha 2023 down 14.6% volatile
4 Uzbekistan 193.44 kg/ha 2023 up 29.6% rising
5 China, mainland 192.39 kg/ha 2023 down 17.3% volatile
6 Belgium-Luxembourg 191.49 kg/ha 1999 down 21.2% rising
7 Suriname 185.82 kg/ha 2023 up 59.6% volatile
8 China, Hong Kong SAR 182 kg/ha 2023 down 17.5% rising
9 Kuwait 172.32 kg/ha 2023 up 16.6% volatile
10 Bangladesh 169.31 kg/ha 2023 up 28.4% volatile
11 China, Taiwan Province of 159.63 kg/ha 2023 down 20.8% falling
12 Belgium 148.86 kg/ha 2023 down 30.4% flat
13 Viet Nam 146.77 kg/ha 2023 down 6.9% volatile
14 Ireland 146.34 kg/ha 2023 down 10.9% rising
15 Republic of Korea 142.66 kg/ha 2023 up 2.1% rising
16 Costa Rica 142.16 kg/ha 2023 up 7.2% rising
17 United Arab Emirates 124.12 kg/ha 2023 down 41.5% volatile
18 Guyana 122.86 kg/ha 2023 down 18.3% rising
19 Pakistan 122.34 kg/ha 2023 up 19.3% volatile
20 Norway 116.52 kg/ha 2023 down 4.4% rising
21 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 114.56 kg/ha 2023 down 12.2% rising
22 Croatia 111.64 kg/ha 2023 up 1.8% rising
23 India 109.38 kg/ha 2023 up 22.9% volatile
24 Czechia 102.88 kg/ha 2023 down 24.4% rising
25 Oman 102.03 kg/ha 2023 down 37.7% volatile
26 Uruguay 100.7 kg/ha 2023 up 44.7% volatile
27 Faroe Islands 100 kg/ha 2023 down 97.8% volatile
28 Bulgaria 99.03 kg/ha 2023 up 22.5% rising
29 Thailand 95.03 kg/ha 2023 up 31.4% volatile
30 Belize 94.2 kg/ha 2023 up 4.7% volatile
31 Chile 93.73 kg/ha 2023 down 2.6% volatile
32 Montenegro 91.84 kg/ha 2023 down 10.8% falling
33 France 89.39 kg/ha 2023 down 11.8% rising
34 Brazil 87.4 kg/ha 2023 up 53.2% volatile
35 Slovakia 87.15 kg/ha 2023 up 4.1% rising
36 Belarus 87.08 kg/ha 2023 down 7.5% rising
37 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 84.06 kg/ha 2023 down 8.9% falling
38 Georgia 84.05 kg/ha 2023 up 82.4% rising
39 Denmark 82.47 kg/ha 2023 up 9.8% falling
40 Türkiye 81.27 kg/ha 2023 up 22.1% volatile
41 Jordan 80.92 kg/ha 2023 up 42.1% volatile
42 Trinidad and Tobago 80.09 kg/ha 2023 down 40.7% rising
43 Switzerland 78.42 kg/ha 2023 down 1.5% rising
44 Colombia 76.71 kg/ha 2023 down 28.6% volatile
45 Serbia 74.27 kg/ha 2023 down 29.6% flat
46 Sweden 74.2 kg/ha 2023 up 18.8% rising
47 Qatar 74.1 kg/ha 2023 down 6.4% volatile
48 Canada 73.9 kg/ha 2023 up 26.8% volatile
49 Poland 72.93 kg/ha 2023 down 7.0% rising
50 Indonesia 72.51 kg/ha 2023 up 1.3% volatile
51 Slovenia 72.39 kg/ha 2023 up 8.5% falling
52 Tajikistan 71.08 kg/ha 2023 up 927.2% volatile
53 Israel 70.79 kg/ha 2023 down 36.1% rising
54 Malta 70.68 kg/ha 2023 up 26.6% rising
55 Germany 70.43 kg/ha 2023 down 36.5% flat
56 Sri Lanka 68.32 kg/ha 2023 up 2.2% rising
57 Lithuania 68 kg/ha 2023 up 1.2% rising
58 Botswana 66.97 kg/ha 2023 down 14.1% volatile
59 Austria 66.69 kg/ha 2023 down 6.8% rising
60 Honduras 65.12 kg/ha 2023 up 18.4% volatile
61 Ecuador 62.6 kg/ha 2023 down 1.2% volatile
62 Guatemala 62.55 kg/ha 2023 down 22.6% volatile
63 Singapore 62.12 kg/ha 2023 down 7.5% volatile
64 Estonia 61.11 kg/ha 2023 up 2.8% rising
65 Philippines 60.5 kg/ha 2023 up 23.6% volatile
66 Cyprus 59.89 kg/ha 2023 down 2.7% rising
67 Italy 59.44 kg/ha 2023 down 9.6% rising
68 Australia 58.72 kg/ha 2023 up 62.6% volatile
69 Australia and New Zealand 58.58 kg/ha 2023 up 61.0% volatile
70 Mexico 58.43 kg/ha 2023 up 7.2% rising
71 New Caledonia 57.94 kg/ha 2023 up 13.0% volatile
72 Luxembourg 57.78 kg/ha 2023 down 30.9% falling
73 Romania 56.98 kg/ha 2023 up 23.7% rising
74 Mauritius 56.94 kg/ha 2023 down 39.6% rising
75 Zambia 56.73 kg/ha 2023 up 50.2% volatile
76 Greece 56.5 kg/ha 2023 up 9.6% rising
77 Hungary 56.49 kg/ha 2023 down 24.4% rising
78 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 56.33 kg/ha 2023 up 32.4% volatile
79 Japan 56.02 kg/ha 2023 down 18.8% falling
80 Czechoslovakia 55.7 kg/ha 1992 down 54.6% rising
81 Iceland 54.56 kg/ha 2023 down 19.4% falling
82 Saudi Arabia 54.07 kg/ha 2023 up 17.2% volatile
83 Latvia 52.76 kg/ha 2023 up 2.1% rising
84 El Salvador 52.32 kg/ha 2023 down 22.6% falling
85 Panama 51.27 kg/ha 2023 up 57.2% rising
86 New Zealand 51.08 kg/ha 2023 up 1.8% volatile
87 Nepal 50.8 kg/ha 2023 up 26.7% volatile
88 Lebanon 50.52 kg/ha 2023 down 42.4% rising
89 Malaysia 49.22 kg/ha 2023 down 33.6% volatile
90 Bosnia and Herzegovina 48.63 kg/ha 2023 down 2.1% volatile
91 Maldives 48.57 kg/ha 2023 up 2.5% volatile
92 Malawi 48.52 kg/ha 2023 up 205.0% volatile
93 Spain 47.72 kg/ha 2023 down 18.2% rising
94 Iraq 46.91 kg/ha 2023 up 31.6% volatile
95 Peru 45.17 kg/ha 2023 down 19.8% rising
96 Albania 42.69 kg/ha 2023 up 25.9% volatile
97 Bahamas 41.09 kg/ha 2023 down 7.6% volatile
98 Finland 40.52 kg/ha 2023 down 9.2% rising
99 Lao People's Democratic Republic 39.74 kg/ha 2023 up 216.2% volatile
100 Portugal 39.69 kg/ha 2023 down 21.1% rising
101 Dominican Republic 38.85 kg/ha 2023 up 18.0% rising
102 Yugoslav SFR 37.77 kg/ha 1991 down 37.7% rising
103 Eswatini 37.21 kg/ha 2023 up 30.0% rising
104 Myanmar 36.58 kg/ha 2023 up 179.2% volatile
105 USSR 33.98 kg/ha 1991 down 6.1% volatile
106 Mongolia 33.61 kg/ha 2023 up 142.8% volatile
107 Fiji 33.6 kg/ha 2023 up 30.5% falling
108 Cambodia 32.94 kg/ha 2023 up 241.2% volatile
109 Saint Lucia 32.5 kg/ha 2023 up 51.7% volatile
110 Republic of Moldova 31.08 kg/ha 2023 up 79.5% volatile
111 Argentina 30.66 kg/ha 2023 up 57.6% volatile
112 Ukraine 30.14 kg/ha 2023 up 6.8% volatile
113 Armenia 30.03 kg/ha 2023 down 56.2% volatile
114 Ethiopia 29.35 kg/ha 2023 up 195.5% volatile
115 Azerbaijan 29.27 kg/ha 2023 up 169.2% volatile
116 North Macedonia 28.55 kg/ha 2023 down 24.2% falling
117 Nicaragua 28.19 kg/ha 2023 up 33.5% volatile
118 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 27.15 kg/ha 2023 down 66.4% volatile
119 Puerto Rico 26.4 kg/ha 2023 down 5.5% volatile
120 Seychelles 25.81 kg/ha 2023 up 53.8% volatile
121 Namibia 25.55 kg/ha 2023 up 167.4% volatile
122 Brunei Darussalam 24.3 kg/ha 2023 up 247.1% volatile
123 Paraguay 24.07 kg/ha 2023 down 14.1% volatile
124 Zimbabwe 23.61 kg/ha 2023 up 87.8% falling
125 Kyrgyzstan 22.84 kg/ha 2023 down 11.2% rising
126 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 22.61 kg/ha 2023 down 63.5% volatile
127 Morocco 22.53 kg/ha 2023 up 3.3% volatile
128 Kenya 22.23 kg/ha 2023 up 2.6% volatile
129 Russian Federation 20.97 kg/ha 2023 up 97.1% rising
130 Papua New Guinea 20.75 kg/ha 2023 up 37.6% volatile
131 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 19.6 kg/ha 2023 up 3.2% volatile
132 Grenada 19.57 kg/ha 2023 up 3.0% rising
133 Jamaica 19.01 kg/ha 2023 down 29.3% falling
134 Melanesia 18.91 kg/ha 2023 up 33.8% rising
135 Barbados 17.62 kg/ha 2023 down 84.8% volatile
136 Bahrain 15.37 kg/ha 2023 down 98.0% volatile
137 Rwanda 13.6 kg/ha 2023 up 217.6% volatile
138 Djibouti 13.33 kg/ha 2023 up 33.3% volatile
139 Benin 13.18 kg/ha 2023 up 798.8% volatile
140 Gambia 12.29 kg/ha 2023 up 9,756.3% volatile
141 United Republic of Tanzania 12.11 kg/ha 2023 up 55.5% volatile
142 Tunisia 11.54 kg/ha 2023 down 0.2% volatile
143 Caribbean 11.21 kg/ha 2023 down 42.1% falling
144 Gabon 11.19 kg/ha 2023 up 333.8% volatile
145 Algeria 10.55 kg/ha 2023 up 27.5% rising
146 Syrian Arab Republic 9.59 kg/ha 2023 up 120.1% volatile
147 Togo 9.42 kg/ha 2023 up 185.8% volatile
148 Mozambique 9.34 kg/ha 2023 up 109.9% volatile
149 Mali 9.34 kg/ha 2023 down 13.1% volatile
150 Ghana 9.33 kg/ha 2023 up 1.6% volatile
151 Libya 9.07 kg/ha 2023 down 30.3% volatile
152 Burkina Faso 7.78 kg/ha 2023 up 10.0% volatile
153 Nigeria 7.61 kg/ha 2023 down 6.0% volatile
154 Afghanistan 7.41 kg/ha 2023 up 63.3% volatile
155 French Polynesia 6.95 kg/ha 2023 down 28.3% volatile
156 Côte d'Ivoire 5.99 kg/ha 2023 up 53.9% volatile
157 Lesotho 5.97 kg/ha 2023 down 65.9% volatile
158 Bhutan 5.64 kg/ha 2023 down 16.2% volatile
159 Cook Islands 5.26 kg/ha 2023 up 25.0% volatile
160 Senegal 4.79 kg/ha 2023 down 45.7% volatile
161 Yemen 4.58 kg/ha 2023 down 62.8% volatile
162 Sudan (former) 4.37 kg/ha 2011 up 3.0% rising
163 Liberia 4.17 kg/ha 2023 down 16.3% volatile
164 Mauritania 4.17 kg/ha 2023 down 16.3% volatile
165 Guinea-Bissau 4.17 kg/ha 2023 down 16.3% volatile
166 Burundi 4.12 kg/ha 2023 up 46.9% volatile
167 Cameroon 3.96 kg/ha 2023 down 6.1% volatile
168 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 3.38 kg/ha 2023 down 28.6% volatile
169 Sudan 3.37 kg/ha 2023 down 11.7% rising
170 Madagascar 3.35 kg/ha 2023 up 43.2% volatile
171 Angola 3.18 kg/ha 2023 down 20.1% volatile
172 Equatorial Guinea 3.18 kg/ha 2023 up 55.7% volatile
173 Chad 3.17 kg/ha 2023 up 55.4% volatile
174 Sao Tome and Principe 3.17 kg/ha 2023 up 56.0% rising
175 Ethiopia PDR 2.66 kg/ha 1992 up 147.7% volatile
176 Polynesia 2.61 kg/ha 2023 down 12.8% rising
177 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.55 kg/ha 2023 — volatile
178 Micronesia (Federated States of) 2.5 kg/ha 2023 up 66.7% volatile
179 Cabo Verde 2.46 kg/ha 2023 up 47.8% rising
180 Kazakhstan 2.36 kg/ha 2023 up 25.2% rising
181 Guinea 2.34 kg/ha 2023 up 324.5% volatile
182 Congo 2.26 kg/ha 2023 up 123.6% volatile
183 Tonga 2.16 kg/ha 2023 down 14.1% volatile
184 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.91 kg/ha 2023 up 256.9% volatile
185 Eritrea 1.87 kg/ha 2023 up 57.6% volatile
186 Cuba 1.78 kg/ha 2023 down 90.9% volatile
187 Sierra Leone 1.42 kg/ha 2023 up 30.4% volatile
188 Uganda 1.28 kg/ha 2023 up 21.6% volatile
189 Comoros 0.8983 kg/ha 2023 up 3,436.6% volatile
190 Tuvalu 0.5556 kg/ha 2023 down 83.3% falling
191 Niger 0.4568 kg/ha 2023 up 8.4% volatile
192 Haiti 0.2644 kg/ha 2023 down 90.7% volatile
193 Samoa 0.2593 kg/ha 2023 up 49.8% volatile
194 South Sudan 0.1779 kg/ha 2023 — volatile
195 Antigua and Barbuda 0 kg/ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
195 Dominica 0 kg/ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
195 Kiribati 0 kg/ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
195 Nauru 0 kg/ha 2023 — flat
195 Solomon Islands 0 kg/ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
195 Vanuatu 0 kg/ha 2023 — falling
195 Guadeloupe 0 kg/ha 2023 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Mineral fertilizers — Cropland nitrogen per unit area
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
233 places, 13,500 data points, 1961–2023
Last refreshed

The Cropland Nutrient balance domain contains information on the flows of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from mineral fertilizer, manure applied, atmospheric deposition, crop removal, and biological fixation over cropland and per unit area of cropland. The flows are aggregated to total inputs and total outputs, from which the overall nutrient balance and nutrient use efficiency on cropland are calculated. Statistics are disseminated in units of tonnes and in kg/ha, as appropriate. Nutrient use efficiency is expressed as a fraction (%).