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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966

1966, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966 covers 128 countries. New Zealand is highest, at 1,074.7737; Niger is lowest, at 0.0087. The middle country reads 20.7383. Against 1965, 117 values changed (86 up, 31 down), 5 countries joined, 1 left.

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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare · Data for 1966

HighestNew Zealand

1,074.7737

LowestNiger

0.0087

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 128 countries · select a heading to sort

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1,074.7737
2NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe636.5604
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia625.0000
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe566.6108
5BarbadosBRBCaribbean388.3750
6JapanJPNEastern Asia362.7361
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe358.4906
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe337.9015
9Saint LuciaLCACaribbean240.0000
10Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean233.3333
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe227.3621
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa212.2809
13CubaCUBCaribbean199.2263
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe196.8085
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe194.6046
16South KoreaKOREastern Asia193.5386
17FranceFRAWestern Europe182.9679
18IcelandISLNorthern Europe160.8167
19MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia148.1091
20Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean142.9649
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe134.2222
22Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia131.8598
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe126.8885
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe125.3728
25IsraelISRWestern Asia123.6180

02In 1966

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1New Zealand1,074.7737
  2. 2Netherlands636.5604
  3. 3Singapore625.0000
  4. 4Ireland566.6108
  5. 5Barbados388.3750

Lowest

  1. 128Niger0.0087
  2. 127Yemen0.0115
  3. 126Togo0.0278
  4. 125Burkina Faso0.0333
  5. 124Burundi0.1328

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.7383. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −1countries joined / left
  • 117values changed, of 123 in both
  • 86 · 31rose · fell
  • 6unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bahamas+ Mauritania+ Togo+ Yemen− Equatorial Guinea

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1966.

  • The position is ours

    FAO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 128 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1966). Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertilizer-use/1966

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07Questions

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertiliser use in Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966?

New Zealand, at 1,074.7737, of the 128 countries in the file.

What year does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966 describe?

1966.

How many countries does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966 cover?

128.

Where can I download Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 1966 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2023.

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