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DEFINITION
Fertilizer consumption measures the quantity of plant nutrients used per unit of arable land. Fertilizer products cover nitrogenous, potash, and phosphate fertilizers (including ground rock phosphate). Traditional nutrients--animal and plant manures--are not included. The time reference for fertilizer consumption is the crop year (July through June).
Agriculture Statistics > Fertilizer consumption > metric tons (1988) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
China :
25,321,900 metric tons
1988
Chinese Agriculture
# 2
United States :
17,733,130 metric tons
1988
American Agriculture
# 3
India :
10,765,000 metric tons
1988
Indian Agriculture
# 4
France :
5,999,700 metric tons
1988
French Agriculture
# 5
Germany :
4,874,868 metric tons
1988
German Agriculture
# 6
Brazil :
3,728,237 metric tons
1988
Brazilian Agriculture
# 7
Poland :
3,414,900 metric tons
1988
Polish Agriculture
# 8
Indonesia :
2,480,900 metric tons
1988
Indonesian Agriculture
# 9
United Kingdom :
2,462,000 metric tons
1988
British Agriculture
# 10
Canada :
2,130,677 metric tons
1988
Canadian Agriculture
# 11
Spain :
2,093,799 metric tons
1988
Spanish Agriculture
# 12
Italy :
2,091,981 metric tons
1988
Italian Agriculture
# 13
Japan :
1,943,000 metric tons
1988
Japanese Agriculture
# 14
Mexico :
1,757,400 metric tons
1988
Mexican Agriculture
# 15
Pakistan :
1,739,392 metric tons
1988
Pakistani Agriculture
# 16
Turkey :
1,614,008 metric tons
1988
Turkish Agriculture
# 17
Hungary :
1,417,537 metric tons
1988
Hungarian Agriculture
# 18
Australia :
1,395,900 metric tons
1988
Australian Agriculture
# 19
Romania :
1,355,000 metric tons
1988
Romanian Agriculture
# 20
Iran :
1,025,997 metric tons
1988
Iranian Agriculture
# 21
Egypt :
1,001,300 metric tons
1988
Egyptian Agriculture
# 22
Korea, South :
921,100 metric tons
1988
Korean Agriculture
# 23
Bulgaria :
903,000 metric tons
1988
Bulgarian Agriculture
# 24
Malaysia :
887,100 metric tons
1988
Malaysian Agriculture
# 25
South Africa :
826,820 metric tons
1988
South African Agriculture
# 26
Korea, North :
806,000 metric tons
1988
Korean Agriculture
# 27
Bangladesh :
776,468 metric tons
1988
Bangladeshi Agriculture
# 28
Thailand :
770,553 metric tons
1988
Thai Agriculture
# 29
Ireland :
680,500 metric tons
1988
Irish Agriculture
# 30
Venezuela :
666,465 metric tons
1988
Venezuelan Agriculture
# 31
Greece :
648,800 metric tons
1988
Greek Agriculture
# 32
Netherlands :
640,812 metric tons
1988
Dutch Agriculture
# 33
Denmark :
617,000 metric tons
1988
Danish Agriculture
# 34
Cuba :
598,700 metric tons
1988
Cuban Agriculture
# 35
Vietnam :
576,143 metric tons
1988
Vietnamese Agriculture
# 36
Colombia :
512,100 metric tons
1988
Colombian Agriculture
# 37
Philippines :
504,482 metric tons
1988
Philippine Agriculture
# 38
Finland :
492,668 metric tons
1988
Finnish Agriculture
# 39
Saudi Arabia :
453,000 metric tons
1988
Saudi Agriculture
# 40
Belgium :
415,000 metric tons
1988
Belgian Agriculture
# 41
Sweden :
365,000 metric tons
1988
Swedish Agriculture
# 42
Morocco :
338,854 metric tons
1988
Moroccan Agriculture
# 43
Nigeria :
325,200 metric tons
1988
Nigerian Agriculture
# 44
Austria :
315,200 metric tons
1988
Austrian Agriculture
# 45
New Zealand :
296,100 metric tons
1988
New Zealand Agriculture
# 46
Portugal :
294,500 metric tons
1988
Portuguese Agriculture
# 47
Chile :
292,300 metric tons
1988
Chilean Agriculture
# 48
Syria :
280,424 metric tons
1988
Syrian Agriculture
# 49
Iraq :
237,700 metric tons
1988
Iraqi Agriculture
# 50
Peru :
225,525 metric tons
1988
Peruvian Agriculture
# 51
Norway :
217,500 metric tons
1988
Norwegian Agriculture
# 52
Sri Lanka :
207,100 metric tons
1988
Sri Lankan Agriculture
# 53
Switzerland :
177,600 metric tons
1988
Swiss Agriculture
# 54
Argentina :
162,500 metric tons
1988
Argentine Agriculture
# 55
Zimbabwe :
159,397 metric tons
1988
Zimbabwean Agriculture
# 56
Algeria :
146,500 metric tons
1988
Algerian Agriculture
# 57
Kenya :
121,100 metric tons
1988
Kenyan Agriculture
# 58
Guatemala :
107,300 metric tons
1988
Guatemalan Agriculture
# 59
Tunisia :
101,300 metric tons
1988
Tunisian Agriculture
# 60
Costa Rica :
100,870 metric tons
1988
Costa Rican Agriculture
# 61
Israel :
97,500 metric tons
1988
Israeli Agriculture
# 62
El Salvador :
97,217 metric tons
1988
Salvadoran Agriculture
# 63
Albania :
96,500 metric tons
1988
Albanian Agriculture
# 64
Libya :
87,900 metric tons
1988
Libyan Agriculture
# 65
Burma :
87,308 metric tons
1988
Burmese Agriculture
# 66
Zambia :
86,840 metric tons
1988
Zambian Agriculture
# 67
Sudan :
80,000 metric tons
1988
Sudanese Agriculture
# 68
Ecuador :
76,801 metric tons
1988
Ecuadorian Agriculture
# 69
Nicaragua :
76,600 metric tons
1988
Nicaraguan Agriculture
# 70
Uruguay :
68,999 metric tons
1988
Uruguayan Agriculture
# 71
Dominican Republic :
62,902 metric tons
1988
Dominican Agriculture
# 72
Nepal :
56,291 metric tons
1988
Nepalese Agriculture
# 73
Afghanistan :
55,730 metric tons
1988
Afghan Agriculture
# 74
Malawi :
51,226 metric tons
1988
Malawian Agriculture
# 75
Tanzania :
41,191 metric tons
1988
Tanzanian Agriculture
# 76
Honduras :
39,876 metric tons
1988
Honduran Agriculture
# 77
Panama :
38,500 metric tons
1988
Panamanian Agriculture
# 78
Cameroon :
36,675 metric tons
1988
Cameroonian Agriculture
# 79
Jamaica :
29,268 metric tons
1988
Jamaican Agriculture
# 80
Mauritius :
28,209 metric tons
1988
Mauritian Agriculture
# 81
Côte d'Ivoire :
27,500 metric tons
1988
Ivoirian Agriculture
# 82
Jordan :
27,149 metric tons
1988
Jordanian Agriculture
# 83
Fiji :
25,200 metric tons
1988
Fijian Agriculture
# 84
Senegal :
23,400 metric tons
1988
Senegalese Agriculture
# 85
Lebanon :
22,600 metric tons
1988
Lebanese Agriculture
# 86
Iceland :
22,142 metric tons
1988
Icelandic Agriculture
# 87
Cyprus :
21,751 metric tons
1988
Cypriot Agriculture
# 88
Mongolia :
19,800 metric tons
1988
Mongolian Agriculture
# 89
Yemen :
17,800 metric tons
1988
Yemeni Agriculture
# 90
Angola :
15,909 metric tons
1988
Angolan Agriculture
# 91
Burkina Faso :
15,113 metric tons
1988
Burkinabe Agriculture
# 92
Guyana :
14,300 metric tons
1988
Guyanese Agriculture
# 93
Papua New Guinea :
14,000 metric tons
1988
Papua New Guinean Agriculture
# 94
Swaziland :
13,810 metric tons
1988
Swazi Agriculture
# 95
Mali :
13,400 metric tons
1988
Malian Agriculture
# 96
Ghana :
12,655 metric tons
1988
Ghanaian Agriculture
# 97
Togo :
12,181 metric tons
1988
Togolese Agriculture
# 98
Madagascar :
10,722 metric tons
1988
Malagasy Agriculture
# 99
Paraguay :
8,184 metric tons
1988
Paraguayan Agriculture
# 100
Benin :
6,914 metric tons
1988
Beninese Agriculture
# 101
Singapore :
5,600 metric tons
1988
Singapore Agriculture
# 102
United Arab Emirates :
5,400 metric tons
1988
Emirati Agriculture
# 103
Oman :
5,312 metric tons
1988
Omani Agriculture
# 104
Chad :
4,877 metric tons
1988
Chadian Agriculture
# 105
Bolivia :
4,508 metric tons
1988
Bolivian Agriculture
# 106
Lesotho :
4,500 metric tons
1988
Basotho Agriculture
# 107
Belize :
4,481 metric tons
1988
Belizean Agriculture
# 108
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
3,800 metric tons
1988
Saint Vincentian Agriculture
# 109
Liberia :
3,400 metric tons
1988
Liberian Agriculture
# 110
Mauritania :
3,200 metric tons
1988
Mauritanian Agriculture
# 111
Barbados :
3,100 metric tons
1988
Barbadian Agriculture
# 112
Dominica :
3,000 metric tons
1988
Dominican Agriculture
# 113
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
2,800 metric tons
1988
Congolese Agriculture
# 114
Burundi :
2,600 metric tons
1988
Burundian Agriculture
# 115
Saint Lucia :
2,600 metric tons
1988
Saint Lucian Agriculture
# 116
Somalia :
2,200 metric tons
1988
Somali Agriculture
# 117
Haiti :
2,200 metric tons
1988
Haitian Agriculture
# 118
Trinidad and Tobago :
2,142 metric tons
1988
Tobagonian Agriculture
# 119
Suriname :
1,950 metric tons
1988
Surinamese Agriculture
# 120
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
1,900 metric tons
1988
Nevisian Agriculture
# 121
Niger :
1,730 metric tons
1988
Nigerien Agriculture
# 122
Mozambique :
1,600 metric tons
1988
Mozambican Agriculture
# 123
Virgin Islands :
1,300 metric tons
1988
Virgin Islander Agriculture
# 124
New Caledonia :
1,200 metric tons
1988
New Caledonian Agriculture
# 125
Gabon :
948 metric tons
1988
Gabonese Agriculture
# 126
Gambia, The :
930 metric tons
1988
Gambian Agriculture
# 127
French Polynesia :
900 metric tons
1988
French Polynesian Agriculture
# 128
Botswana :
900 metric tons
1988
Motswana -Batswana Agriculture
# 129
Kuwait :
775 metric tons
1988
Kuwaiti Agriculture
# 130
Congo, Republic of the :
700 metric tons
1988
Congolese Agriculture
# 131
Brunei :
700 metric tons
1988
Bruneian Agriculture
# 132
Guinea :
631 metric tons
1988
Guinean Agriculture
# 133
Qatar :
600 metric tons
1988
Qatari Agriculture
# 134
Central African Republic :
577 metric tons
1988
Central African Agriculture
# 135
Malta :
571 metric tons
1988
Maltese Agriculture
# 136
Rwanda :
561 metric tons
1988
Rwandan Agriculture
# 137
Sierra Leone :
538 metric tons
1988
Sierra Leonean Agriculture
# 138
Bahamas, The :
500 metric tons
1988
Bahamian Agriculture
# 139
Bahrain :
350 metric tons
1988
Bahraini Agriculture
# 140
Laos :
300 metric tons
1988
Lao Agriculture
# 141
Guinea-Bissau :
250 metric tons
1988
Guinean Agriculture
# 142
Uganda :
131 metric tons
1988
Ugandan Agriculture
# 143
Bermuda :
100 metric tons
1988
Bermudian Agriculture
# 144
Cambodia :
100 metric tons
1988
Cambodian Agriculture
# 145
Bhutan :
100 metric tons
1988
Bhutanese Agriculture
Total :
115,241,932 metric tons
Weighted average:
794,771.9 metric tons
DEFINITION: Fertilizer consumption measures the quantity of plant nutrients used per unit of arable land. Fertilizer products cover nitrogenous, potash, and phosphate fertilizers (including ground rock phosphate). Traditional nutrients--animal and plant manures--are not included. The time reference for fertilizer consumption is the crop year (July through June).
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