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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016

2016, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016 covers 199 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 6,560.606; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 94.103. Against 2015, 196 values changed (107 up, 89 down), the same countries are covered.

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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare · Data for 2016

HighestFaroe Islands

6,560.606

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe6,560.606
2MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1,995.781
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1,538.449
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1,050.750
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1,023.291
6Costa RicaCRICentral America711.620
7ColombiaCOLSouth America646.145
8EgyptEGYNorthern Africa568.042
9Hong KongHKGEastern Asia527.667
10SeychellesSYCEastern Africa520.000
11ChinaCHNEastern Asia480.055
12OmanOMNWestern Asia457.120
13VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia424.697
14BelizeBLZCentral America413.273
15United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia407.865
16Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean364.000
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia351.141
18EcuadorECUSouth America345.446
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia332.689
20ArmeniaARMWestern Asia330.491
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia311.962
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe291.686
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia288.288
24MontenegroMNESouthern Europe285.222
25IsraelISRWestern Asia280.678

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands6,560.606
  2. 2Malaysia1,995.781
  3. 3New Zealand1,538.449
  4. 4Kuwait1,050.750
  5. 5Ireland1,023.291

Lowest

  1. 198Northern Mariana Islandsshared0.000
  2. 198Kiribatishared0.000
  3. 197South Sudan0.034
  4. 196Central African Republic0.224
  5. 195Niger0.386

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 94.103. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 196values changed, of 199 in both
  • 107 · 89rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2016.

  • 198 distinct values among 199

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 2 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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) (2016). Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertilizer-use/2016

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07Questions

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertiliser use in Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016?

Faroe Islands, at 6,560.606, of the 199 countries in the file.

What year does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016 cover?

199.

Where can I download Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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