Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches, per square kilometre by country
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
175
Highest
3,460 kg per square kilometre
Bangladesh
Lowest
0 kg per square kilometre
Vanuatu
Median
101.91 kg per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
9,865
What the numbers show
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches, per square kilometre is currently reported for 175 countries. The highest value is 3,460 kg per square kilometre in Bangladesh; the lowest is 0 kg per square kilometre in Vanuatu.
The median across all reporting countries is 101.91 kg per square kilometre, and the mean is 262.69 kg per square kilometre.
Over the past decade 90 countries rose and 83 fell. The largest increase was in Saint Kitts and Nevis (up 91,538.6%), and the largest decrease in Aruba (down 100.0%).
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh | 3,460 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 35.0% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 2,064 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Thailand | 1,576 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 63.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Pakistan | 1,482 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 17.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Denmark | 1,470 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.8% | falling |
| 6 | Ireland | 1,222 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 7 | Poland | 1,132 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 8 | Luxembourg | 1,058 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.0% | falling |
| 9 | Belgium | 1,050 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 36.6% | falling |
| 10 | France | 965 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.1% | rising |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 941.78 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.6% | flat |
| 12 | Czechia | 923.7 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.4% | rising |
| 13 | Germany | 891.9 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 38.1% | falling |
| 14 | Hungary | 872.75 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 15 | Malawi | 871.83 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 366.1% | volatile |
| 16 | Serbia | 828.47 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 29.1% | falling |
| 17 | China | 788.33 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Mauritius | 749.78 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 34.3% | falling |
| 19 | Belarus | 725.4 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.3% | rising |
| 20 | Slovakia | 671.9 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.2% | rising |
| 21 | Philippines | 657.35 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 23.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Uzbekistan | 654.39 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 40.7% | rising |
| 23 | Lithuania | 610.45 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.9% | rising |
| 24 | Romania | 604.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.6% | volatile |
| 25 | Sri Lanka | 578.23 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 26 | Italy | 577.67 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 27 | Malta | 549.51 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 28 | El Salvador | 539.81 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 46.1% | rising |
| 29 | Costa Rica | 516.23 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 30 | Ukraine | 514.46 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.7% | volatile |
| 31 | Guatemala | 505.32 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Indonesia | 473.16 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.1% | volatile |
| 33 | Croatia | 465.6 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.5% | falling |
| 34 | Spain | 464.09 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 35 | Lebanon | 457.58 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 21.9% | rising |
| 36 | New Zealand | 420.42 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Dominican Republic | 408.6 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 79.3% | volatile |
| 38 | Israel | 406.59 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 37.5% | rising |
| 39 | Greece | 405.99 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.8% | falling |
| 40 | Latvia | 387.19 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 41 | Egypt | 384.7 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 42 | Slovenia | 371.18 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 43 | Malaysia | 363.53 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.3% | volatile |
| 44 | Austria | 354.84 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.9% | flat |
| 45 | Uruguay | 345.98 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 3.1% | volatile |
| 46 | Turkmenistan | 325.95 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 34.4% | volatile |
| 47 | Switzerland | 302.87 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.3% | rising |
| 48 | Portugal | 292.09 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.4% | falling |
| 49 | Cyprus | 288.96 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 27.5% | falling |
| 50 | Honduras | 279.99 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 39.8% | volatile |
| 51 | Japan | 277.81 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 52 | Albania | 275.08 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 18.2% | volatile |
| 53 | Palestine | 272.75 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 54 | Estonia | 269.63 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 55 | Maldives | 239.54 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Cambodia | 237.64 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 177.2% | volatile |
| 57 | Azerbaijan | 234.02 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 154.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Brazil | 229.88 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Belize | 220.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 22.5% | volatile |
| 60 | Mexico | 210.75 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.5% | rising |
| 61 | North Macedonia | 195.51 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 14.9% | flat |
| 62 | Rwanda | 183.83 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 124.9% | volatile |
| 63 | Georgia | 181.32 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 85.8% | falling |
| 64 | Nepal | 167.4 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 65 | Armenia | 165.22 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 73.2% | volatile |
| 66 | Gambia | 162.88 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9,583.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Tajikistan | 162.62 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 978.7% | volatile |
| 68 | Panama | 156.23 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 45.1% | rising |
| 69 | Morocco | 153.6 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 4.4% | volatile |
| 70 | Saint Lucia | 152.81 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 51.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Nicaragua | 146.88 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 62.4% | volatile |
| 72 | Togo | 146.47 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 185.8% | volatile |
| 73 | Benin | 146.05 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 991.5% | volatile |
| 74 | Ethiopia | 145.48 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 218.1% | volatile |
| 75 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 143.45 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 71.2% | volatile |
| 76 | Finland | 138.84 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 77 | Argentina | 138.07 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 59.8% | volatile |
| 78 | Sweden | 135.54 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.3% | falling |
| 79 | Eswatini | 126.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 31.3% | rising |
| 80 | Tunisia | 124.52 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.5% | volatile |
| 81 | Grenada | 120.94 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | volatile |
| 82 | Jordan | 119.92 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 43.0% | volatile |
| 83 | Iraq | 117.29 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 84 | Colombia | 115.22 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.9% | volatile |
| 85 | Canada | 106.36 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 29.2% | volatile |
| 86 | South Africa | 104.02 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 87 | Ghana | 104.02 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 74.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Paraguay | 101.91 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 89 | Ecuador | 100.53 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 48.5% | volatile |
| 90 | Chile | 98.9 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 10.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Jamaica | 98.3 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 26.1% | falling |
| 92 | Barbados | 98.29 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 88.5% | volatile |
| 93 | Zambia | 93.66 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 64.9% | volatile |
| 94 | Norway | 87.41 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 95 | Kenya | 86.05 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.0% | volatile |
| 96 | Australia | 83.87 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 75.7% | volatile |
| 97 | Burundi | 80.47 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 74.9% | volatile |
| 98 | Fiji | 76.47 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 25.6% | falling |
| 99 | Bermuda | 75.62 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 74.4% | volatile |
| 100 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 75.31 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3.2% | volatile |
| 101 | Zimbabwe | 74.91 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 86.5% | rising |
| 102 | Burkina Faso | 71.31 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 28.3% | volatile |
| 103 | Trinidad and Tobago | 54.24 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 84.5% | falling |
| 104 | Peru | 52.08 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 105 | United Arab Emirates | 48.08 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 32.5% | volatile |
| 106 | Myanmar | 46.01 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 45.9% | volatile |
| 107 | Puerto Rico | 43.84 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.9% | rising |
| 108 | Sao Tome and Principe | 41.61 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 92.0% | volatile |
| 109 | Kuwait | 40.82 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.2% | volatile |
| 110 | Qatar | 40.66 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.7% | volatile |
| 111 | Kyrgyzstan | 36.1 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.8% | falling |
| 112 | Saudi Arabia | 36.05 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 50.5% | volatile |
| 113 | Montenegro | 29.37 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 114 | Nigeria | 28.92 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 67.4% | volatile |
| 115 | Guinea-Bissau | 28.69 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 1.8% | volatile |
| 116 | Tonga | 28.08 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 7.1% | volatile |
| 117 | Seychelles | 26.39 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 54.9% | volatile |
| 118 | Suriname | 26.17 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 116.4% | volatile |
| 119 | Iceland | 25.89 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 0.4% | falling |
| 120 | Cameroon | 25.52 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 8.3% | volatile |
| 121 | Mozambique | 21.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 112.2% | volatile |
| 122 | Lesotho | 21.27 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 51.3% | volatile |
| 123 | Guinea | 20.8 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 525.6% | volatile |
| 124 | Guyana | 19.41 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 23.2% | rising |
| 125 | Sudan | 19.35 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 163.9% | volatile |
| 126 | Uganda | 17.45 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 127 | French Polynesia | 17.15 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 19.6% | volatile |
| 128 | Comoros | 17.14 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 3,344.9% | volatile |
| 129 | Singapore | 16.99 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.5% | volatile |
| 130 | Papua New Guinea | 16.7 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 52.5% | volatile |
| 131 | Afghanistan | 16.43 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 132 | Cuba | 15.22 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 92.5% | volatile |
| 133 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 14.59 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 91,538.6% | volatile |
| 134 | Bahamas | 13.55 kg per square kilometre | 2021 | down 35.1% | volatile |
| 135 | Mali | 13.06 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 28.7% | volatile |
| 136 | Senegal | 12.83 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 61.4% | volatile |
| 137 | Tuvalu | 12.24 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 78.1% | falling |
| 138 | Oman | 12.04 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 139 | Mongolia | 10.44 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 113.6% | volatile |
| 140 | Sierra Leone | 10.3 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 30.4% | volatile |
| 141 | Botswana | 9.29 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 20.2% | volatile |
| 142 | New Caledonia | 9.22 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 12.6% | volatile |
| 143 | Liberia | 9.09 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 17.4% | volatile |
| 144 | Algeria | 8.84 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 145 | Kazakhstan | 7.82 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 26.3% | volatile |
| 146 | Namibia | 7.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 168.4% | volatile |
| 147 | Madagascar | 7.56 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 42.8% | volatile |
| 148 | Gabon | 6.45 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 333.6% | volatile |
| 149 | Palau | 5.23 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 77.1% | volatile |
| 150 | Bhutan | 5.05 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 15.3% | volatile |
| 151 | Angola | 4.36 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 11.3% | volatile |
| 152 | Chad | 4.03 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 64.7% | volatile |
| 153 | Yemen | 3.76 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 75.3% | volatile |
| 154 | Haiti | 3.75 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 92.3% | volatile |
| 155 | Equatorial Guinea | 3.39 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 55.4% | volatile |
| 156 | Eritrea | 3.2 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 57.4% | volatile |
| 157 | Libya | 2.34 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 56.1% | volatile |
| 158 | Niger | 1.93 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 14.2% | volatile |
| 159 | Faroe Islands | 1.5 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 97.6% | volatile |
| 160 | Congo | 1.29 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 130.7% | volatile |
| 161 | Samoa | 1.14 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.6% | volatile |
| 162 | Djibouti | 0.6779 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 89.1% | volatile |
| 163 | Mauritania | 0.5583 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 16.3% | volatile |
| 164 | Somalia | 0.2969 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 2,723.0% | volatile |
| 165 | South Sudan | 0.2173 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 166 | Central African Republic | 0.0381 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 30.1% | volatile |
| 167 | Greenland | 0.0168 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | up 24.4% | volatile |
| 168 | Aruba | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Bahrain | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Dominica | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Kiribati | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Nauru | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 168 | Solomon Islands | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 168 | Vanuatu | 0 kg per square kilometre | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 257.99 kg per square kilometre
- Sub-Saharan Africa 33.91 kg per square kilometre
How this figure is calculated
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Nitrogen fertilizer content applied that leaches divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.