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

Sheep — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
159
Highest
555.18 kg per square kilometre
New Zealand
Lowest
0.0576 kg per square kilometre
Papua New Guinea
Median
39.14 kg per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,179

What the numbers show

Sheep — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per square kilometre is currently reported for 159 countries. The highest value is 555.18 kg per square kilometre in New Zealand; the lowest is 0.0576 kg per square kilometre in Papua New Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 39.14 kg per square kilometre, and the mean is 62.75 kg per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9,646.

Over the past decade 96 countries rose and 62 fell. The largest increase was in Benin (up 199.2%), and the largest decrease in Chile (down 64.6%).

Sheep: Manure left on pasture … left square kilometre leaches: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 New Zealand 555.18 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 20.9% falling
2 Palestine 477.07 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.5% rising
3 Azerbaijan 288.22 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 16.2% rising
4 Bahrain 272.48 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 46.2% volatile
5 Qatar 253.07 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 104.9% volatile
6 Greece 240.46 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% rising
7 Faroe Islands 225.43 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
8 Ireland 213.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 25.3% rising
9 Nigeria 200.5 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 27.5% volatile
10 Saint Kitts and Nevis 181.76 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 112.5% falling
11 Albania 172.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 35.0% rising
12 Malta 171.7 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 28.0% rising
13 Lesotho 171.66 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.1% falling
14 Morocco 164.4 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.9% rising
15 Romania 156.19 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 16.6% falling
16 Lebanon 152.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 3.5% rising
17 Senegal 151.19 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 34.8% volatile
18 Burkina Faso 148.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% volatile
19 Kuwait 147.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 42.2% volatile
20 Tunisia 142.56 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% rising
21 Kenya 141.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 37.0% volatile
22 Uzbekistan 138.74 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 43.4% rising
23 Chad 137.22 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 114.4% volatile
24 Togo 135.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% rising
25 Cyprus 133.32 kg per square kilometre 2022 down 1.0% falling
26 Ethiopia 125.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 46.1% rising
27 Pakistan 124.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
28 Uruguay 121.48 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 27.6% falling
29 Jordan 118.55 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 27.0% rising
30 Barbados 111.33 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% volatile
31 Spain 106.86 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 15.6% falling
32 Grenada 105.51 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 24.2% rising
33 United Arab Emirates 104.24 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% volatile
34 Burundi 95.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 133.3% rising
35 Portugal 95.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% falling
36 Ghana 93.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 43.8% volatile
37 North Macedonia 91.42 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 19.8% volatile
38 Turkmenistan 89.48 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% rising
39 Uganda 88.42 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 136.0% volatile
40 Bangladesh 87.66 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% volatile
41 Armenia 86.55 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.4% flat
42 Italy 86.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.5% falling
43 Kyrgyzstan 86.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 18.6% flat
44 Israel 82.88 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% rising
45 South Sudan 81.52 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
46 Tajikistan 81.17 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
47 Benin 81.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 199.2% volatile
48 Serbia 80.18 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% rising
49 India 77.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% rising
50 Bosnia and Herzegovina 76.98 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% rising
51 Sudan 76.02 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% flat
52 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 73.34 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
53 Eritrea 72.55 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
54 Djibouti 72.05 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% rising
55 Yemen 70.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% volatile
56 Antigua and Barbuda 69.36 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 39.2% rising
57 Mali 67.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 78.2% volatile
58 South Africa 62.72 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% falling
59 China 61.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% rising
60 Guinea-Bissau 61.11 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.0% rising
61 Gambia 59.88 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 55.1% rising
62 Somalia 58.5 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 16.0% rising
63 Iraq 56.31 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% falling
64 Australia 56.25 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% falling
65 Mongolia 56.18 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 46.4% rising
66 Afghanistan 55.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.9% falling
67 Guinea 53.8 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 69.7% volatile
68 Saint Lucia 51.91 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% rising
69 Sierra Leone 49.46 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% volatile
70 Comoros 49.15 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
71 Montenegro 49.04 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 18.9% falling
72 Cuba 48.89 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 30.2% volatile
73 France 47.92 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.2% falling
74 Algeria 47.44 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 19.7% rising
75 Georgia 44.59 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 25.5% rising
76 Rwanda 44.34 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 61.4% volatile
77 Dominica 40.3 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
78 Niger 39.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 31.7% rising
79 Mauritania 39.22 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 13.0% rising
80 Haiti 39.14 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 94.6% rising
81 Croatia 38.74 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% rising
82 Switzerland 36.02 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% rising
83 Hungary 34.68 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 24.1% falling
84 Bulgaria 34.48 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 21.2% volatile
85 Peru 31.62 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
86 Saudi Arabia 31.62 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 64.8% volatile
87 Cameroon 26.83 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
88 Indonesia 24.42 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.2% volatile
89 Norway 23.62 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 3.4% rising
90 Slovenia 22.69 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
91 Slovakia 21.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 29.2% falling
92 Guatemala 20.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% falling
93 Dominican Republic 19.09 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% volatile
94 Kazakhstan 18.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% falling
95 Austria 18.65 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
96 Germany 17.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 17.7% falling
97 Argentina 16.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
98 Mexico 16.31 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.0% rising
99 Libya 15.19 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
100 Denmark 14.98 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
101 Belgium 14.18 kg per square kilometre 2022 down 8.2% falling
102 Iceland 13.83 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 23.9% falling
103 Malawi 13.8 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 43.1% volatile
104 Luxembourg 13.73 kg per square kilometre 2022 up 9.6% flat
105 Sao Tome and Principe 12.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
106 Trinidad and Tobago 12.13 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 17.8% volatile
107 Liberia 10.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
108 Nepal 10.42 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 38.0% rising
109 Namibia 9.77 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% falling
110 Brazil 9.35 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 26.0% rising
111 Ecuador 8.12 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 24.0% falling
112 Czechia 8.1 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 18.7% rising
113 Lithuania 8.02 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 54.7% volatile
114 Oman 7.75 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% volatile
115 Fiji 7.22 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 104.7% volatile
116 Egypt 7.11 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 64.2% rising
117 Mauritius 7.02 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 57.4% falling
118 Puerto Rico 6.69 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 44.8% rising
119 Madagascar 5.85 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 14.1% rising
120 Chile 5.81 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 64.6% falling
121 Colombia 5.79 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 155.3% falling
122 Equatorial Guinea 5.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
123 Estonia 5.06 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 27.0% rising
124 Latvia 4.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% rising
125 Zimbabwe 4.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 60.2% falling
126 Eswatini 3.44 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 4.3% falling
127 Angola 3.33 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% volatile
128 Sweden 3.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 41.3% rising
129 Gabon 3.16 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
130 Ukraine 3.12 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 51.7% volatile
131 Poland 3.08 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% volatile
132 Paraguay 2.96 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 26.8% flat
133 Belize 2.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% volatile
134 Central African Republic 2.52 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% volatile
135 Myanmar 2.46 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 46.8% volatile
136 Bahamas 2.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% volatile
137 Guyana 2.24 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% rising
138 Finland 1.58 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 9.9% falling
139 Botswana 1.5 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% rising
140 Belarus 1.3 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% volatile
141 Congo 1.3 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
142 Malaysia 1.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% volatile
143 Zambia 1.16 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.3% volatile
144 Mozambique 1.04 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 7.0% rising
145 El Salvador 0.96 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% rising
146 Bhutan 0.7347 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% volatile
147 Sri Lanka 0.6199 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 37.7% volatile
148 Honduras 0.5433 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
149 French Polynesia 0.4432 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 0.9% volatile
150 Jamaica 0.4332 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% volatile
151 New Caledonia 0.383 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 14.0% falling
152 Philippines 0.2996 kg per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
153 Thailand 0.224 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% volatile
154 Japan 0.2115 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 15.0% volatile
155 Nicaragua 0.2067 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
156 Costa Rica 0.2027 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
157 Canada 0.1891 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% rising
158 Suriname 0.1404 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
159 Papua New Guinea 0.0576 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% 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 Land area (sq. km), 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) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Sheep — Manure left on pasture that leaches (N content), per square kilometre
Unit
kg per square kilometre
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 Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.