Pesticide Use per Hectare

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: pesticide-use-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Pesticide use (kg per hectare of cropland)is built fromInsecticides (tonnes)Herbicides (tonnes)Fungicides and bactericides (tonnes)

Every column in the newest file of Pesticide Use per Hectare: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	181	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	181	0
Pesticide use (kg per hectare of cropland)pesticide_useHeadline	The headline figure: Pesticide use (kg per hectare of cropland).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.004 share it37.72Antigua and Barbudamiddle 1.73	151	0
Insecticides (tonnes)insecticidesPart of the headline	Insecticides used in agriculture during the year, in tonnes of active ingredients.	Number · whole numbers	02 share it171,846Indonesiamiddle 308	150	0
Herbicides (tonnes)herbicidesPart of the headline	Herbicides used in agriculture during the year, in tonnes of active ingredients.	Number · whole numbers	06 share it427,416Brazilmiddle 588	157	7
Fungicides and bactericides (tonnes)fungicidesPart of the headline	Fungicides and bactericides used in agriculture during the year, in tonnes of active ingredients.	Number · whole numbers	010 share it169,834Brazilmiddle 406	148	2

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 35 years.

Not in this dataset · 42 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoKuwaitLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Pesticide Use per Hectare 2024

   Inputs_Pesticides_Use_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   35 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as pesticide-use-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/pesticide-use

FAOSTAT's Pesticides Use domain, read from the FAO's own bulk download.