Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land

Name: Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land
Creator: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Nitrogen, potash and phosphate fertilisers used per hectare of arable land in a year.

Kilograms per hectare of arable land Annual 200 countries and 11 groups 1961 to 2024 Source: World Bank (original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO))

Highest in 2024 2,487.5 kg per hectare Kuwait Lowest in 2024 0.0 kg per hectare Kiribati

Countries ranked for 2024 190 Updated by the source on 8 October 2026

190 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period in the data.

Trend over time

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Namibia

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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 2024
Period	Namibia
2024	27.1 kg per hectare
2023	27.1 kg per hectare
2022	14.9 kg per hectare
2021	3.7 kg per hectare
2020	3.7 kg per hectare
2019	25.5 kg per hectare
2018	40.0 kg per hectare
2017	25.0 kg per hectare
2016	26.1 kg per hectare
2015	13.7 kg per hectare
2014	6.1 kg per hectare
2013	10.9 kg per hectare
2012	15.0 kg per hectare
2011	6.6 kg per hectare
2010	4.4 kg per hectare
2009	1.6 kg per hectare
2008	0.3 kg per hectare
2007	2.5 kg per hectare
2006	2.8 kg per hectare
2005	1.9 kg per hectare
2004	3.2 kg per hectare
2003	1.4 kg per hectare
2002	3.9 kg per hectare
2001	0.4 kg per hectare
2000	0.4 kg per hectare

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

Among the 190 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Kuwait (2,487.5 kg per hectare) and the lowest Kiribati (0.0 kg per hectare).
Half of the countries are above 94.5 kg per hectare and half below.
From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 100 countries and fell in 69.

About this measure

Definition: Nitrogen, potash and phosphate fertilisers used per hectare of arable land in a year.
Population covered: Arable land
Unit: Kilograms per hectare of arable land
Frequency: Annual
Changes are shown as: Percent change

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 2024
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)

All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.

1 Kuwait 2,487.5 kg per hectare
2 Malaysia 1,869.4 kg per hectare
3 United Arab Emirates 1,648.5 kg per hectare
4 Costa Rica 1,402.5 kg per hectare
5 New Zealand 1,341.4 kg per hectare
6 Ireland 986.6 kg per hectare
7 Bahrain 769.0 kg per hectare
8 Egypt 597.8 kg per hectare
9 Faroe Islands 571.4 kg per hectare
10 Hong Kong SAR, China 482.5 kg per hectare
11 Viet Nam 420.4 kg per hectare
12 Colombia 416.0 kg per hectare
13 Bangladesh 398.9 kg per hectare
14 Brazil 397.1 kg per hectare
15 China 393.3 kg per hectare
16 Oman 340.7 kg per hectare
17 Turkmenistan 337.0 kg per hectare
18 Indonesia 312.6 kg per hectare
19 Seychelles 286.7 kg per hectare
20 South Korea 285.6 kg per hectare
21 Netherlands 269.6 kg per hectare
22 Uzbekistan 267.2 kg per hectare
23 Montenegro 266.6 kg per hectare
24 Chile 263.8 kg per hectare
25 Ecuador 263.7 kg per hectare
26 Suriname 262.2 kg per hectare
27 Lebanon 259.0 kg per hectare
28 Philippines 254.5 kg per hectare
29 Guyana 252.0 kg per hectare
30 New Caledonia 248.9 kg per hectare
31 Israel 246.9 kg per hectare
32 Qatar 241.0 kg per hectare
33 Slovenia 237.9 kg per hectare
34 India 214.1 kg per hectare
35 Belgium 213.8 kg per hectare
36 Guatemala 204.9 kg per hectare
37 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 203.0 kg per hectare
38 Saint Lucia 199.6 kg per hectare
39 Honduras 198.0 kg per hectare
40 Belarus 194.4 kg per hectare
41 United Kingdom 193.7 kg per hectare
42 Norway 193.2 kg per hectare
43 Malta 190.9 kg per hectare
44 Portugal 190.5 kg per hectare
45 Dominican Republic 188.1 kg per hectare
46 Uruguay 186.8 kg per hectare
47 Greece 186.6 kg per hectare
48 Croatia 181.8 kg per hectare
49 Georgia 181.5 kg per hectare
50 Luxembourg 177.7 kg per hectare
51 Brunei 177.3 kg per hectare
52 Belize 176.5 kg per hectare
53 Cyprus 175.7 kg per hectare
54 Thailand 171.4 kg per hectare
55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 169.5 kg per hectare
56 Papua New Guinea 164.2 kg per hectare
57 Sri Lanka 160.6 kg per hectare
58 Serbia 158.3 kg per hectare
59 Pakistan 158.0 kg per hectare
60 Poland 155.8 kg per hectare
61 France 154.7 kg per hectare
62 Czechia 153.6 kg per hectare
63 Switzerland 151.8 kg per hectare
64 Australia 151.2 kg per hectare
65 Paraguay 148.2 kg per hectare
66 Mauritius 140.8 kg per hectare
67 Türkiye 138.8 kg per hectare
68 Germany 137.7 kg per hectare
69 Singapore 137.5 kg per hectare
70 Canada 136.7 kg per hectare
71 Spain 136.0 kg per hectare
72 Iceland 133.7 kg per hectare
73 French Polynesia 130.4 kg per hectare
74 Trinidad and Tobago 127.9 kg per hectare
75 United States 127.8 kg per hectare
76 Bermuda 126.7 kg per hectare
77 Saudi Arabia 125.5 kg per hectare
78 Bahamas 123.0 kg per hectare
79 South Africa 120.3 kg per hectare
80 Bulgaria 119.7 kg per hectare
81 West Bank and Gaza 118.7 kg per hectare
82 Hungary 117.8 kg per hectare
83 Denmark 117.2 kg per hectare
84 Austria 117.1 kg per hectare
85 Laos 115.4 kg per hectare
86 Italy 112.1 kg per hectare
87 Jordan 111.9 kg per hectare
88 Japan 111.0 kg per hectare
89 Slovakia 107.6 kg per hectare
90 Finland 102.3 kg per hectare
91 Latvia 97.9 kg per hectare
92 Sweden 97.5 kg per hectare
93 Fiji 96.9 kg per hectare
94 Mexico 96.2 kg per hectare
95 Panama 95.6 kg per hectare
96 Peru 93.5 kg per hectare
97 Botswana 93.1 kg per hectare
98 Lithuania 92.8 kg per hectare
99 Romania 85.8 kg per hectare
100 Zambia 78.9 kg per hectare
101 Cambodia 78.4 kg per hectare
102 Burundi 75.3 kg per hectare
103 Eswatini 74.6 kg per hectare
104 Dominica 72.9 kg per hectare
105 Estonia 72.4 kg per hectare
106 North Macedonia 72.4 kg per hectare
107 Maldives 70.5 kg per hectare
108 Iran 68.3 kg per hectare
109 Nepal 67.8 kg per hectare
110 Albania 66.2 kg per hectare
111 El Salvador 63.6 kg per hectare
112 Morocco 56.5 kg per hectare
113 Jamaica 56.4 kg per hectare
114 São Tomé and Príncipe 54.8 kg per hectare
115 Iraq 51.4 kg per hectare
116 Venezuela 50.9 kg per hectare
117 Gabon 50.3 kg per hectare
118 Kenya 48.4 kg per hectare
119 Argentina 47.0 kg per hectare
120 Tunisia 46.4 kg per hectare
121 Tajikistan 46.0 kg per hectare
122 Mongolia 45.7 kg per hectare
123 Ethiopia 45.4 kg per hectare
124 Ghana 43.3 kg per hectare
125 Moldova 42.5 kg per hectare
126 Ukraine 41.7 kg per hectare
127 Armenia 41.2 kg per hectare
128 Malawi 36.6 kg per hectare
129 Libya 34.5 kg per hectare
130 Barbados 32.3 kg per hectare
131 Solomon Islands 32.2 kg per hectare
132 Azerbaijan 32.1 kg per hectare
133 Rwanda 31.7 kg per hectare
134 Puerto Rico (US) 31.3 kg per hectare
135 Djibouti 31.0 kg per hectare
136 Russia 29.1 kg per hectare
137 Côte d'Ivoire 28.4 kg per hectare
138 Namibia 27.1 kg per hectare
139 Palau 26.7 kg per hectare
140 Zimbabwe 26.2 kg per hectare
141 Kyrgyzstan 25.6 kg per hectare
142 Benin 25.5 kg per hectare
143 Myanmar 23.5 kg per hectare
144 Grenada 23.3 kg per hectare
145 Algeria 20.7 kg per hectare
146 Senegal 19.3 kg per hectare
147 Republic of the Congo 19.1 kg per hectare
148 Afghanistan 18.0 kg per hectare
149 Tanzania 17.7 kg per hectare
150 Cameroon 16.3 kg per hectare
151 Togo 15.7 kg per hectare
152 Angola 15.6 kg per hectare
153 Mozambique 14.4 kg per hectare
154 Antigua and Barbuda 13.3 kg per hectare
155 Nigeria 13.0 kg per hectare
156 Burkina Faso 12.8 kg per hectare
157 Mali 12.0 kg per hectare
158 Bhutan 11.7 kg per hectare
159 Syria 11.5 kg per hectare
160 Yemen 11.4 kg per hectare
161 North Korea 9.5 kg per hectare
162 Bolivia 9.3 kg per hectare
163 Comoros 8.3 kg per hectare
164 Mauritania 8.0 kg per hectare
165 Liberia 7.6 kg per hectare
166 Haiti 7.3 kg per hectare
167 Sudan 7.1 kg per hectare
168 Madagascar 6.5 kg per hectare
169 Lesotho 6.1 kg per hectare
170 Chad 5.9 kg per hectare
171 Gambia 5.6 kg per hectare
172 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4.8 kg per hectare
173 Equatorial Guinea 4.8 kg per hectare
174 Guinea 4.2 kg per hectare
175 Kazakhstan 3.8 kg per hectare
176 Cabo Verde 3.5 kg per hectare
177 Cuba 3.3 kg per hectare
178 Micronesia 3.3 kg per hectare
179 Uganda 3.2 kg per hectare
180 Tonga 2.9 kg per hectare
181 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2.5 kg per hectare
182 Eritrea 2.4 kg per hectare
183 Guinea-Bissau 1.1 kg per hectare
184 Niger 0.8 kg per hectare
185 Samoa 0.8 kg per hectare
186 Vanuatu 0.5 kg per hectare
187 South Sudan 0.1 kg per hectare
188 Central African Republic 0.0 kg per hectare
189 Aruba 0.0 kg per hectare
190 Kiribati 0.0 kg per hectare

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank. "Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land." PiSpace Open Data, publication 30, retrieved 14 November 2026. https://data.pispace.eu/indicators/fertilizer-consumption

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (2026). Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land [Data set]. PiSpace Open Data. https://data.pispace.eu/indicators/fertilizer-consumption?pub=30

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  author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)}},
  title = {Fertiliser use per hectare of arable land},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {PiSpace Open Data},
  url = {https://data.pispace.eu/indicators/fertilizer-consumption?pub=30},
  note = {Publication 30, retrieved 2026-11-14}
}

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