Fertiliser use in Latin America and Caribbean

Farmers in Latin America and Caribbean used 173.9 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: 1961 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Latin America and Caribbean is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Latin America and Caribbean, 2023 173.9 Kilograms per hectare of arable land
Change from 2022 −3.8% 2022: 180.8 kg per hectare
World, 2023 136.5 kg per hectare Official aggregate

Fertiliser use in Latin America and Caribbean over time

View
Places
2 selected
Latin America and Caribbean World ×

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 Latin America and CaribbeanWorld
2023 173.9 kg per hectare 136.5 kg per hectare
2022 180.8 kg per hectare 134.9 kg per hectare
2021 197.3 kg per hectare 142.6 kg per hectare
2020 190.3 kg per hectare 144.6 kg per hectare
2019 165.4 kg per hectare 135.5 kg per hectare
2018 168.1 kg per hectare 136.9 kg per hectare
2017 160.5 kg per hectare 138.0 kg per hectare
2016 143.8 kg per hectare 135.1 kg per hectare
2015 135.1 kg per hectare 132.9 kg per hectare
2014 158.0 kg per hectare 136.1 kg per hectare
2013 150.4 kg per hectare 133.2 kg per hectare
2012 134.9 kg per hectare 130.8 kg per hectare
2011 143.1 kg per hectare 133.5 kg per hectare
2010 121.1 kg per hectare 128.9 kg per hectare
2009 92.5 kg per hectare 117.6 kg per hectare
2008 119.0 kg per hectare 116.6 kg per hectare
2007 131.5 kg per hectare 124.3 kg per hectare
2006 111.3 kg per hectare 118.8 kg per hectare
2005 106.3 kg per hectare 115.3 kg per hectare
2004 128.5 kg per hectare 114.9 kg per hectare
2003 111.3 kg per hectare 109.6 kg per hectare
2002 99.9 kg per hectare 106.4 kg per hectare
2001 98.8 kg per hectare 103.1 kg per hectare
2000 95.4 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 −3.8% from 180.8 kg per hectare in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 150.4 kg per hectare, the figure has changed by +15.6%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 136.5 kg per hectare.

More for Latin America and Caribbean

All statistics for Latin America and Caribbean

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
AG.CON.FERT.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1961 to 2023 for Latin America and Caribbean
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)