Fertiliser use in East Asia and Pacific

Farmers in East Asia and Pacific used 304.1 kg of fertiliser per hectare of arable land in 2023.

Measure: Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land Unit: Kilograms per hectare of arable land Data: 2002 to 2023 Source: World Bank
East Asia and Pacific is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
East Asia and Pacific, 2023 304.1 Kilograms per hectare of arable land
Change from 2022 +1.1% 2022: 300.7 kg per hectare
World, 2023 136.5 kg per hectare Official aggregate

Fertiliser use in East Asia and Pacific over time

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Kilograms per hectare of arable land. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land (kilograms per hectare of arable land), 2000 to 2023
Period East Asia and PacificWorld
2023 304.1 kg per hectare 136.5 kg per hectare
2022 300.7 kg per hectare 134.9 kg per hectare
2021 310.9 kg per hectare 142.6 kg per hectare
2020 307.6 kg per hectare 144.6 kg per hectare
2019 305.5 kg per hectare 135.5 kg per hectare
2018 323.5 kg per hectare 136.9 kg per hectare
2017 336.7 kg per hectare 138.0 kg per hectare
2016 340.0 kg per hectare 135.1 kg per hectare
2015 329.1 kg per hectare 132.9 kg per hectare
2014 338.0 kg per hectare 136.1 kg per hectare
2013 325.6 kg per hectare 133.2 kg per hectare
2012 321.3 kg per hectare 130.8 kg per hectare
2011 312.1 kg per hectare 133.5 kg per hectare
2010 308.2 kg per hectare 128.9 kg per hectare
2009 277.1 kg per hectare 117.6 kg per hectare
2008 275.7 kg per hectare 116.6 kg per hectare
2007 292.9 kg per hectare 124.3 kg per hectare
2006 278.2 kg per hectare 118.8 kg per hectare
2005 276.5 kg per hectare 115.3 kg per hectare
2004 268.9 kg per hectare 114.9 kg per hectare
2003 252.8 kg per hectare 109.6 kg per hectare
2002 248.7 kg per hectare 106.4 kg per hectare
2001 – 103.1 kg per hectare
2000 – 101.1 kg per hectare

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.1% from 300.7 kg per hectare in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 325.6 kg per hectare, the figure has changed by −6.6%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 136.5 kg per hectare.

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Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
AG.CON.FERT.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2002 to 2023 for East Asia and Pacific
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)