Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare 1990

Report year 1990·Data year 1990

Fertilizer consumption (kg per hectare of arable land)·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 121 to 199 countries, from FAOSTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (AG.CON.FERT.ZS). Nitrogen, phosphate and potash applied per hectare of arable land. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, so this indicator carries no good/bad colouring anywhere on the site and does not feed its topics’ rankings — it is charted on them, not scored by them. This one is a problem at BOTH ends: too little fertiliser is a yield problem across much of Africa, and too much is a runoff, algal-bloom and emissions problem across much of Asia and Europe. ⚠ The extreme top of the table is territories with almost no arable land to divide by, not the world’s heaviest users — the denominator is what is unusual there, not the fertiliser. ⚠ These are not separate published reports — `restatedByReport` names the World Development Indicators release they were pulled from. ⚠ A statistic, not an index. ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score LARGEST FIRST, and it is a SIZE ORDER rather than a league table: this measure has no better end, so position 1 names the country with the biggest figure and says nothing about how that country is doing. The change arrows stay grey for the same reason, and the indicator is still left out of the Country Index.

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