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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017

2017, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017 covers 199 countries. Faroe Islands is highest, at 17,196.970; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 93.385. Against 2016, 194 values changed (116 up, 78 down), the same countries are covered.

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Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare · Data for 2017

HighestFaroe Islands

17,196.970

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe17,196.970
2MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia2,011.317
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1,820.695
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1,147.674
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1,127.280
6Costa RicaCRICentral America802.073
7ColombiaCOLSouth America678.382
8SeychellesSYCEastern Africa640.000
9EgyptEGYNorthern Africa574.182
10Hong KongHKGEastern Asia512.903
11ChinaCHNEastern Asia460.458
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia457.986
13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia374.482
14EcuadorECUSouth America369.986
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia353.420
16United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia350.742
17BahrainBHRWestern Asia348.325
18BelizeBLZCentral America333.433
19OmanOMNWestern Asia332.684
20BahamasBHSCaribbean328.250
21French PolynesiaPYFPolynesia308.800
22BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia302.543
23NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe290.558
24LebanonLBNWestern Asia288.029
25BrazilBRASouth America275.934

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Faroe Islands17,196.970
  2. 2Malaysia2,011.317
  3. 3New Zealand1,820.695
  4. 4Kuwait1,147.674
  5. 5Ireland1,127.280

Lowest

  1. 198Northern Mariana Islandsshared0.000
  2. 198Kiribatishared0.000
  3. 197Benin0.015
  4. 196South Sudan0.026
  5. 195Comoros0.092

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 93.385. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 194values changed, of 199 in both
  • 116 · 78rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

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 2017.

  • 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) (2017). Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertilizer-use/2017

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07Questions

Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest fertiliser use in Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017?

Faroe Islands, at 17,196.970, of the 199 countries in the file.

What year does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017 cover?

199.

Where can I download Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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