Fertiliser use by country, 2024, OECD (38 countries)
Nitrogen, potash and phosphate fertilisers used per hectare of arable land in a year.
38 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Costa Rica (1,402.5 kg per hectare). Lowest: Estonia (72.4 kg per hectare). The median is 151.5 kg per hectare.
Members since Costa Rica joined on 25 May 2021. About this group
Highest 10
- 1. Costa Rica 1,402.5 kg per hectare
- 2. New Zealand 1,341.4 kg per hectare
- 3. Ireland 986.6 kg per hectare
- 4. Colombia 416.0 kg per hectare
- 5. South Korea 285.6 kg per hectare
- 6. Netherlands 269.6 kg per hectare
- 7. Chile 263.8 kg per hectare
- 8. Israel 246.9 kg per hectare
- 9. Slovenia 237.9 kg per hectare
- 10. Belgium 213.8 kg per hectare
Lowest 10
- 38. Estonia 72.4 kg per hectare
- 37. Lithuania 92.8 kg per hectare
- 36. Mexico 96.2 kg per hectare
- 35. Sweden 97.5 kg per hectare
- 34. Latvia 97.9 kg per hectare
- 33. Finland 102.3 kg per hectare
- 32. Slovakia 107.6 kg per hectare
- 31. Japan 111.0 kg per hectare
- 30. Italy 112.1 kg per hectare
- 29. Austria 117.1 kg per hectare
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Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 1,402.5 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 2 | New Zealand | 1,341.4 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 3 | Ireland | 986.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 4 | Colombia | 416.0 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 5 | South Korea | 285.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 6 | Netherlands | 269.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 7 | Chile | 263.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 8 | Israel | 246.9 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 9 | Slovenia | 237.9 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 10 | Belgium | 213.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 193.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 12 | Norway | 193.2 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 13 | Portugal | 190.5 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 14 | Greece | 186.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 15 | Luxembourg | 177.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 16 | Poland | 155.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 17 | France | 154.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 18 | Czechia | 153.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 19 | Switzerland | 151.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 20 | Australia | 151.2 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 21 | Türkiye | 138.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 22 | Germany | 137.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 23 | Canada | 136.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 24 | Spain | 136.0 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 25 | Iceland | 133.7 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 26 | United States | 127.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 27 | Hungary | 117.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 28 | Denmark | 117.2 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 29 | Austria | 117.1 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 30 | Italy | 112.1 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 31 | Japan | 111.0 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 32 | Slovakia | 107.6 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 33 | Finland | 102.3 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 34 | Latvia | 97.9 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 35 | Sweden | 97.5 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 36 | Mexico | 96.2 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 37 | Lithuania | 92.8 kg per hectare | 2024 | |
| 38 | Estonia | 72.4 kg per hectare | 2024 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2024, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2024 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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