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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012

2012, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012 covers 198 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 4,703.1250; Northern Mariana Islands is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 85.5216. Against 2011, 192 values changed (113 up, 79 down), 5 countries joined.

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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare · Data for 2012

HighestFaroe Islands

4,703.1250

LowestNorthern Mariana Islands

0.0000

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, 2012, 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 198 countries · select a heading to sort

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe4,703.1250
2BahrainBHRWestern Asia2,288.8889
3MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1,916.8402
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1,505.7701
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1,138.7808
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia645.1213
7Costa RicaCRICentral America635.3276
8ColombiaCOLSouth America581.9434
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa528.5714
10OmanOMNWestern Asia525.3116
11Hong KongHKGEastern Asia511.9355
12KuwaitKWTWestern Asia468.6000
13EgyptEGYNorthern Africa462.9905
14ChinaCHNEastern Asia457.3332
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia371.1376
16South KoreaKOREastern Asia351.8256
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe328.5517
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia324.1051
19LebanonLBNWestern Asia303.1136
20Saint LuciaLCACaribbean294.0075
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe289.8121
22IsraelISRWestern Asia278.8331
23Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean276.0000
24MauritiusMUSEastern Africa274.8421
25BelarusBLREastern Europe271.3861

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands4,703.1250
  2. 2Bahrain2,288.8889
  3. 3Malaysia1,916.8402
  4. 4New Zealand1,505.7701
  5. 5Ireland1,138.7808

Lowest

  1. 198Northern Mariana Islands0.0000
  2. 197South Sudan0.0004
  3. 196Somalia0.0043
  4. 195Samoa0.2000
  5. 194Comoros0.2308

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 85.5216. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 193 in both
  • 113 · 79rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahamas+ Northern Mariana Islands+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Timor-Leste

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 2012.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 198 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) (2012). Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertilizer-use/2012

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07Questions

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertiliser use in Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012?

Faroe Islands, at 4,703.1250, of the 198 countries in the file.

What year does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012 cover?

198.

Where can I download Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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