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

Sheep — 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
159
Highest
28.11 kg per person
New Zealand
Lowest
0.0006 kg per person
Japan
Median
0.33 kg per person
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,179

What the numbers show

Sheep — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per capita is currently reported for 159 countries. The highest value is 28.11 kg per person in New Zealand; the lowest is 0.0006 kg per person in Japan.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.33 kg per person, and the mean is 1.32 kg per person.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 45,389.

Over the past decade 46 countries rose and 113 fell. The largest increase was in Benin (up 127.0%), and the largest decrease in Egypt (down 70.2%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 New Zealand 28.11 kg per person 2023 down 32.4% falling
2 Mongolia 25.15 kg per person 2023 up 22.1% falling
3 Australia 16.23 kg per person 2023 down 17.2% volatile
4 Chad 8.94 kg per person 2023 up 51.9% volatile
5 Mauritania 8.05 kg per person 2023 down 16.0% falling
6 Uruguay 6.28 kg per person 2023 down 28.5% falling
7 Turkmenistan 5.71 kg per person 2023 down 18.6% rising
8 Faroe Islands 5.68 kg per person 2023 down 0.4% falling
9 South Sudan 4.49 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
10 Libya 3.66 kg per person 2023 down 9.8% falling
11 Iceland 3.61 kg per person 2023 down 35.7% falling
12 Mali 3.48 kg per person 2023 up 30.9% flat
13 Greece 2.98 kg per person 2023 down 5.3% falling
14 Sudan 2.84 kg per person 2023 down 23.7% falling
15 Ireland 2.77 kg per person 2023 down 35.0% rising
16 Namibia 2.71 kg per person 2023 down 21.3% volatile
17 Eritrea 2.53 kg per person 2023 down 4.7% falling
18 Kazakhstan 2.48 kg per person 2023 down 3.2% falling
19 Algeria 2.45 kg per person 2023 down 0.4% rising
20 Azerbaijan 2.35 kg per person 2023 down 22.3% rising
21 Kyrgyzstan 2.33 kg per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
22 Lesotho 2.25 kg per person 2023 down 7.4% falling
23 Saudi Arabia 2.02 kg per person 2023 up 35.0% falling
24 Somalia 2 kg per person 2023 down 41.1% falling
25 Albania 1.96 kg per person 2023 down 24.1% falling
26 Morocco 1.95 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% falling
27 Niger 1.92 kg per person 2023 down 6.7% falling
28 Romania 1.89 kg per person 2023 up 22.2% falling
29 Tunisia 1.82 kg per person 2023 down 16.9% falling
30 Burkina Faso 1.76 kg per person 2023 down 2.5% rising
31 Uzbekistan 1.71 kg per person 2023 up 20.9% rising
32 Senegal 1.61 kg per person 2023 up 2.2% rising
33 Norway 1.56 kg per person 2023 down 11.3% falling
34 Kenya 1.49 kg per person 2023 up 13.7% rising
35 Djibouti 1.45 kg per person 2023 down 14.5% falling
36 North Macedonia 1.26 kg per person 2023 down 15.6% falling
37 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.24 kg per person 2023 up 11.6% rising
38 South Africa 1.2 kg per person 2023 down 24.4% volatile
39 Peru 1.2 kg per person 2023 down 20.1% falling
40 Spain 1.1 kg per person 2023 down 18.7% falling
41 Ethiopia 1.1 kg per person 2023 up 11.7% rising
42 Qatar 1.09 kg per person 2023 up 46.3% falling
43 Tajikistan 1.08 kg per person 2023 down 3.4% rising
44 Montenegro 1.06 kg per person 2023 down 19.0% falling
45 Serbia 1.02 kg per person 2023 up 14.9% rising
46 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.01 kg per person 2023 up 113.9% falling
47 Argentina 0.9933 kg per person 2023 down 19.1% volatile
48 Yemen 0.9421 kg per person 2023 down 19.4% falling
49 Cyprus 0.9253 kg per person 2022 down 13.3% falling
50 Jordan 0.9202 kg per person 2023 down 11.3% falling
51 Guinea 0.9177 kg per person 2023 up 31.8% rising
52 Togo 0.8991 kg per person 2023 down 21.8% falling
53 Afghanistan 0.879 kg per person 2023 down 29.0% volatile
54 Georgia 0.834 kg per person 2023 up 25.6% rising
55 Armenia 0.8234 kg per person 2023 up 7.4% rising
56 Portugal 0.823 kg per person 2023 up 5.7% falling
57 Nigeria 0.8013 kg per person 2023 up 1.3% rising
58 Guinea-Bissau 0.7981 kg per person 2023 down 18.9% rising
59 United Arab Emirates 0.7061 kg per person 2023 down 27.3% falling
60 Benin 0.6475 kg per person 2023 up 127.0% falling
61 Ghana 0.628 kg per person 2023 up 16.5% rising
62 Bulgaria 0.5806 kg per person 2023 down 12.5% volatile
63 Guyana 0.5734 kg per person 2023 down 9.2% rising
64 Croatia 0.5617 kg per person 2023 down 2.3% rising
65 Palestine 0.5564 kg per person 2023 down 13.5% falling
66 Kuwait 0.5429 kg per person 2023 up 2.7% rising
67 Iraq 0.5424 kg per person 2023 down 18.1% volatile
68 Oman 0.4748 kg per person 2023 down 7.4% rising
69 Cuba 0.4606 kg per person 2023 down 28.7% volatile
70 Dominica 0.4545 kg per person 2023 up 11.8% rising
71 Cameroon 0.447 kg per person 2023 down 8.8% falling
72 Italy 0.4326 kg per person 2023 down 7.5% falling
73 Sierra Leone 0.422 kg per person 2023 down 6.3% rising
74 China 0.4073 kg per person 2023 up 22.1% rising
75 Pakistan 0.3891 kg per person 2023 down 4.1% falling
76 France 0.3777 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
77 Brazil 0.3702 kg per person 2023 up 18.5% falling
78 Uganda 0.3644 kg per person 2023 up 71.4% falling
79 Botswana 0.3432 kg per person 2023 down 24.6% volatile
80 Hungary 0.33 kg per person 2023 down 21.2% falling
81 Gabon 0.3272 kg per person 2023 down 16.1% rising
82 Antigua and Barbuda 0.3271 kg per person 2023 down 42.6% rising
83 Grenada 0.3064 kg per person 2023 down 26.6% rising
84 Central African Republic 0.3045 kg per person 2023 down 0.5% rising
85 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2823 kg per person 2023 up 16.3% rising
86 Lebanon 0.2698 kg per person 2023 down 4.0% falling
87 Mexico 0.2443 kg per person 2023 down 5.1% falling
88 Gambia 0.2246 kg per person 2023 up 21.0% falling
89 Chile 0.2196 kg per person 2023 down 68.2% volatile
90 Slovenia 0.2154 kg per person 2023 down 1.0% rising
91 Slovakia 0.1864 kg per person 2023 down 29.4% falling
92 Liberia 0.186 kg per person 2023 down 14.9% falling
93 Israel 0.1821 kg per person 2023 down 24.2% falling
94 Burundi 0.1783 kg per person 2023 up 77.9% falling
95 Saint Lucia 0.1766 kg per person 2023 down 4.4% falling
96 Lithuania 0.1749 kg per person 2023 up 59.4% volatile
97 Paraguay 0.1714 kg per person 2023 down 36.2% falling
98 Barbados 0.1696 kg per person 2023 down 0.6% volatile
99 Austria 0.1685 kg per person 2023 down 0.2% rising
100 Indonesia 0.1644 kg per person 2023 down 5.4% rising
101 Latvia 0.1632 kg per person 2023 up 0.1% rising
102 India 0.1603 kg per person 2023 up 1.2% falling
103 Switzerland 0.1601 kg per person 2023 down 19.5% flat
104 Estonia 0.1579 kg per person 2023 down 31.0% rising
105 Fiji 0.1427 kg per person 2023 up 102.9% volatile
106 Belize 0.1406 kg per person 2023 up 1.5% rising
107 Bahrain 0.1382 kg per person 2023 up 20.7% rising
108 Sweden 0.1262 kg per person 2023 down 46.5% rising
109 Colombia 0.1229 kg per person 2023 up 125.2% falling
110 Guatemala 0.122 kg per person 2023 down 10.0% volatile
111 Angola 0.1128 kg per person 2023 down 22.0% rising
112 Ecuador 0.1121 kg per person 2023 down 33.2% volatile
113 Zimbabwe 0.1114 kg per person 2023 up 37.4% volatile
114 Madagascar 0.109 kg per person 2023 down 11.8% falling
115 Comoros 0.1076 kg per person 2023 down 12.1% rising
116 Denmark 0.1008 kg per person 2023 down 4.8% rising
117 Malta 0.0994 kg per person 2023 down 1.6% rising
118 Haiti 0.0927 kg per person 2023 up 71.0% rising
119 Finland 0.0859 kg per person 2023 down 12.3% falling
120 Dominican Republic 0.0812 kg per person 2023 down 7.0% rising
121 Equatorial Guinea 0.0801 kg per person 2023 down 24.1% falling
122 Rwanda 0.0784 kg per person 2023 down 69.3% falling
123 Germany 0.0735 kg per person 2023 down 20.2% falling
124 Congo 0.0717 kg per person 2023 down 19.7% falling
125 Bangladesh 0.0665 kg per person 2023 up 11.2% rising
126 Egypt 0.0618 kg per person 2023 down 70.2% falling
127 Malawi 0.0616 kg per person 2023 up 9.6% falling
128 Bahamas 0.0593 kg per person 2023 down 5.1% volatile
129 Czechia 0.0575 kg per person 2023 down 21.4% rising
130 Luxembourg 0.0541 kg per person 2022 down 10.9% falling
131 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0525 kg per person 2023 down 10.8% falling
132 Nepal 0.0503 kg per person 2023 down 42.4% falling
133 Eswatini 0.0481 kg per person 2023 down 12.1% volatile
134 Ukraine 0.048 kg per person 2023 down 40.9% volatile
135 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0455 kg per person 2023 down 19.5% rising
136 Zambia 0.0417 kg per person 2023 down 24.7% rising
137 Canada 0.0415 kg per person 2023 down 16.9% falling
138 Belgium 0.037 kg per person 2022 down 12.2% falling
139 Suriname 0.0358 kg per person 2023 down 4.9% flat
140 Bhutan 0.0356 kg per person 2023 down 12.5% volatile
141 Myanmar 0.0297 kg per person 2023 down 50.7% volatile
142 Belarus 0.0288 kg per person 2023 up 24.6% volatile
143 Poland 0.0257 kg per person 2023 up 12.4% volatile
144 Mozambique 0.0243 kg per person 2023 down 30.7% falling
145 New Caledonia 0.0242 kg per person 2023 down 17.9% volatile
146 Puerto Rico 0.0185 kg per person 2023 up 64.1% rising
147 Malaysia 0.012 kg per person 2023 down 14.6% flat
148 Mauritius 0.0112 kg per person 2023 up 58.7% volatile
149 Honduras 0.0057 kg per person 2023 down 11.6% rising
150 French Polynesia 0.0055 kg per person 2023 down 1.4% volatile
151 Nicaragua 0.0036 kg per person 2023 down 3.5% rising
152 El Salvador 0.0032 kg per person 2023 up 1.8% falling
153 Papua New Guinea 0.0025 kg per person 2023 down 17.6% volatile
154 Costa Rica 0.002 kg per person 2023 down 6.5% falling
155 Sri Lanka 0.0017 kg per person 2023 up 26.9% volatile
156 Jamaica 0.0017 kg per person 2023 down 4.2% volatile
157 Thailand 0.0016 kg per person 2023 down 10.9% volatile
158 Philippines 0.0008 kg per person 2023 down 11.2% falling
159 Japan 0.0006 kg per person 2023 up 17.7% 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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Sheep — 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.

Sheep — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Sheep — 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
161 places, 9,179 data points, 1961–2023
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Sheep — 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.