Soya beans — Crop residues (N content), per square kilometre by country

Soya beans — Crop residues (N content) 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
87
Highest
331.35 kg per square kilometre
Paraguay
Lowest
0.0002 kg per square kilometre
Pakistan
Median
2.64 kg per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
3,907

What the numbers show

Soya beans — Crop residues (N content), per square kilometre is currently reported for 87 countries. The highest value is 331.35 kg per square kilometre in Paraguay; the lowest is 0.0002 kg per square kilometre in Pakistan.

The median across all reporting countries is 2.64 kg per square kilometre, and the mean is 22.06 kg per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 59 countries rose and 27 fell. The largest increase was in Uzbekistan (up 6,870.1%), and the largest decrease in Costa Rica (down 99.1%).

Soya beans — Crop residues (N content), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Paraguay 331.35 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 14.1% volatile
2 Brazil 220.97 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 77.6% volatile
3 Argentina 141.51 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 41.1% volatile
4 Ukraine 108.51 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 56.9% volatile
5 Togo 103.04 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1,335.9% volatile
6 Uruguay 100.37 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 51.8% volatile
7 India 95.81 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 17.9% volatile
8 Benin 94.54 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 547.3% volatile
9 Serbia 91.63 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 53.1% rising
10 Malawi 64.22 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 160.4% volatile
11 Croatia 49.26 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 80.9% rising
12 Italy 44.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 73.6% volatile
13 Rwanda 44.31 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 68.0% volatile
14 Austria 41.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 182.4% volatile
15 Slovakia 36.32 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 153.3% volatile
16 South Africa 31.02 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 191.3% volatile
17 China 30.61 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 56.1% rising
18 Nigeria 28.45 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 106.7% volatile
19 Hungary 24.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 83.6% volatile
20 Belize 19.68 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 564.2% volatile
21 Romania 19.39 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 112.5% volatile
22 Uganda 18.88 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 404.6% volatile
23 Zambia 18.48 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 271.2% volatile
24 Ghana 17.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 77.3% rising
25 Bangladesh 12.53 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 68.2% rising
26 Japan 11.23 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% flat
27 Czechia 11.2 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 345.8% volatile
28 Canada 9.94 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 30.0% volatile
29 France 9.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 257.4% volatile
30 Burkina Faso 9.41 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 578.1% volatile
31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.72 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 224.0% volatile
32 Guatemala 5.36 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 13.2% rising
33 Slovenia 5.16 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1,322.2% volatile
34 Germany 4.72 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1,028.7% volatile
35 Cambodia 4.69 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 59.9% volatile
36 Nepal 4.44 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 15.9% volatile
37 Myanmar 4.24 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 14.2% volatile
38 El Salvador 3.77 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 5.3% volatile
39 Cameroon 3.55 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 568.4% volatile
40 Burundi 3.07 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6.5% volatile
41 Indonesia 2.87 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 59.5% falling
42 Zimbabwe 2.71 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% volatile
43 Mozambique 2.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 142.0% rising
44 Ethiopia 2.64 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 234.0% volatile
45 Colombia 2.45 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 142.8% flat
46 Switzerland 2.45 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 103.7% rising
47 Poland 2.03 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2,626.8% volatile
48 Sri Lanka 1.85 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 44.8% volatile
49 Mexico 1.44 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 28.7% volatile
50 Nicaragua 1.29 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 52.4% volatile
51 Liberia 1.28 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
52 Kazakhstan 1.09 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% volatile
53 Bulgaria 0.8853 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 942.6% volatile
54 Ecuador 0.871 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 79.9% volatile
55 Egypt 0.761 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 91.4% volatile
56 Angola 0.718 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 144.0% volatile
57 Thailand 0.6182 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 61.9% volatile
58 Uzbekistan 0.5507 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 6,870.1% volatile
59 Mali 0.5506 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 938.9% volatile
60 Georgia 0.5451 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 55.1% rising
61 Lithuania 0.4696 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 44.2% falling
62 Kenya 0.3813 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 373.0% volatile
63 Gabon 0.3487 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.2% rising
64 Honduras 0.2862 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 76.2% volatile
65 Albania 0.2424 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 7.9% volatile
66 Greece 0.2218 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 49.3% volatile
67 Kyrgyzstan 0.2114 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 1,001.7% volatile
68 Spain 0.191 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 428.8% volatile
69 Australia 0.0905 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 45.8% volatile
70 Panama 0.0563 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
71 North Macedonia 0.0551 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 56.6% volatile
72 French Polynesia 0.0507 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 48.5% falling
73 Morocco 0.046 kg per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
74 Bhutan 0.0432 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 82.5% volatile
75 Philippines 0.0314 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 31.9% volatile
76 Peru 0.0297 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 8.1% volatile
77 Chile 0.0276 kg per square kilometre 1982 down 58.7% rising
78 Azerbaijan 0.0107 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 40.3% volatile
79 Tajikistan 0.0067 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% volatile
80 Costa Rica 0.0062 kg per square kilometre 1992 down 99.1% volatile
81 New Zealand 0.0035 kg per square kilometre 1986 down 51.0% volatile
82 Madagascar 0.0023 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
83 Iraq 0.0017 kg per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% volatile
84 Guyana 0.0007 kg per square kilometre 1977 down 92.3% volatile
85 Suriname 0.0004 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 68.6% volatile
86 Malaysia 0.0003 kg per square kilometre 1990 down 88.2% volatile
87 Pakistan 0.0002 kg per square kilometre 2023 down 88.3% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Soya beans — Crop residues (N content) 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.

Soya beans — Crop residues (N content) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Soya beans — Crop residues (N content), per square kilometre
Unit
kg per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
89 places, 3,907 data points, 1961–2023
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Soya beans — Crop residues (N content) 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.