Fertiliser use in Euro area
Farmers in the euro area used 130.5 kg of fertiliser per hectare of arable land in 2023.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2023
130.5
Change from 2022
+2.2%
World, 2023
136.5 kg per hectare
Fertiliser use in Euro area 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.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 130.5 kg per hectare | 136.5 kg per hectare |
| 2022 | 127.6 kg per hectare | 134.9 kg per hectare |
| 2021 | 157.5 kg per hectare | 142.6 kg per hectare |
| 2020 | 168.4 kg per hectare | 144.6 kg per hectare |
| 2019 | 161.3 kg per hectare | 135.5 kg per hectare |
| 2018 | 164.2 kg per hectare | 136.9 kg per hectare |
| 2017 | 167.0 kg per hectare | 138.0 kg per hectare |
| 2016 | 162.6 kg per hectare | 135.1 kg per hectare |
| 2015 | 166.4 kg per hectare | 132.9 kg per hectare |
| 2014 | 166.4 kg per hectare | 136.1 kg per hectare |
| 2013 | 162.6 kg per hectare | 133.2 kg per hectare |
| 2012 | 155.1 kg per hectare | 130.8 kg per hectare |
| 2011 | 150.8 kg per hectare | 133.5 kg per hectare |
| 2010 | 156.2 kg per hectare | 128.9 kg per hectare |
| 2009 | 132.2 kg per hectare | 117.6 kg per hectare |
| 2008 | 147.0 kg per hectare | 116.6 kg per hectare |
| 2007 | 190.2 kg per hectare | 124.3 kg per hectare |
| 2006 | 174.5 kg per hectare | 118.8 kg per hectare |
| 2005 | 175.9 kg per hectare | 115.3 kg per hectare |
| 2004 | 190.1 kg per hectare | 114.9 kg per hectare |
| 2003 | 199.0 kg per hectare | 109.6 kg per hectare |
| 2002 | 190.8 kg per hectare | 106.4 kg per hectare |
| 2001 | 190.6 kg per hectare | 103.1 kg per hectare |
| 2000 | 190.7 kg per hectare | 101.1 kg per hectare |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +2.2% from 127.6 kg per hectare in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 162.6 kg per hectare, the figure has changed by −19.8%.
- The figure for the world in 2023 was 136.5 kg per hectare.
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