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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015

2015, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015 covers 199 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 3,921.875; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.024. The middle country reads 92.399. Against 2014, 197 values changed (109 up, 88 down), the same countries are covered.

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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare · Data for 2015

HighestFaroe Islands

3,921.875

LowestSouth Sudan

0.024

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, 2015, 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 199 countries · select a heading to sort

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe3,921.875
2MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1,896.164
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1,786.006
4BahrainBHRWestern Asia1,215.385
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1,204.545
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1,019.320
7SeychellesSYCEastern Africa813.333
8Costa RicaCRICentral America714.439
9ColombiaCOLSouth America667.507
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa569.459
11Hong KongHKGEastern Asia532.258
12ChinaCHNEastern Asia465.613
13United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia462.381
14VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia432.274
15OmanOMNWestern Asia396.971
16BelizeBLZCentral America382.489
17Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean356.000
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia341.497
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia337.813
20ChileCHLSouth America314.962
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe305.478
22TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia300.505
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia297.811
24French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia296.800
25BermudaBMUNorthern America283.333

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands3,921.875
  2. 2Malaysia1,896.164
  3. 3New Zealand1,786.006
  4. 4Bahrain1,215.385
  5. 5Kuwait1,204.545

Lowest

  1. 199South Sudan0.024
  2. 198Northern Mariana Islands0.040
  3. 197Somalia0.043
  4. 196Sierra Leone0.107
  5. 195Benin0.133

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 92.399. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 197values changed, of 199 in both
  • 109 · 88rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Bahrain2,335.096 → 1,215.385−1,119.712
  • Malaysia2,263.398 → 1,896.164−367.234
  • Mauritius313.293 → 183.827−129.467
  • Qatar237.838 → 124.324−113.514
  • Oman497.280 → 396.971−100.309

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 2015.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 199 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) (2015). Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertilizer-use/2015

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07Questions

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertiliser use in Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015?

Faroe Islands, at 3,921.875, of the 199 countries in the file.

What year does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015 cover?

199.

Where can I download Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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