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Nitrogen fertilizer use in agriculture

Observed

Nitrogen fertilizers applied in agriculture, in tonnes of nutrient nitrogen (N), from FAOSTAT fertilizers by nutrient.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
115.21Mtonnes of nitrogen
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
tonnes of nitrogen
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+3.22Mcontextual+2.87%2023 to 2024from 111.99M to 115.21M tonnes of nitrogen
10-year trend+0.65% per yearcontextual+6.69%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +7.23M tonnes of nitrogen, from 107.98M to 115.21M tonnes of nitrogen
Historical series

Nitrogen fertilizer use in agriculture, World

Observed
025M50M75M100M125M19611970198019902000201020202024TONNES OF NITROGEN115.21M
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Nitrogen fertilizer use in agriculture, World: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 11.49M to 115.21M tonnes of nitrogen. Latest 115.21M tonnes of nitrogen in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (tonnes of nitrogen)Source revisionIngested at
2024115,205,4152026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2023111,987,5512026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2022109,152,5402026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2021113,176,5702026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2020114,991,1362026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2019108,506,0032026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2018108,779,5902026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2017109,961,7682026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2016107,735,0442026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2015106,654,9262026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2014107,980,0822026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2013106,874,5742026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2012105,118,1112026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2011105,008,9412026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2010101,330,5722026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200997,161,5842026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200894,641,3462026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200796,321,0822026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200693,011,6132026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200590,104,0282026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200489,476,1232026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200387,165,1912026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200284,408,2342026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200182,001,2702026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200081,024,1822026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199984,970,3482026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199882,784,5542026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199781,321,4082026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199683,162,7162026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199578,650,0202026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199473,073,6042026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199372,613,8822026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199274,309,2842026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199175,618,4282026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199077,242,9212026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198978,712,4842026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198879,516,4442026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198775,716,4902026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198672,543,7632026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198570,673,2572026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198470,712,7752026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198366,526,3742026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198261,726,8142026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198160,736,6352026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198060,628,5312026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197957,017,9762026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197854,028,1452026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197749,272,3612026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197645,187,9992026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197543,876,5992026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197438,583,4372026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197338,953,4882026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197236,072,9072026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197133,580,7532026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197031,567,7062026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196928,317,3722026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196826,194,5142026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196723,979,8682026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196621,968,3212026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196518,889,8582026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196416,387,3662026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196314,632,0822026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196212,969,1512026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196111,485,5652026-07-302026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series RFN:3102:5157
Definition

What this measures

Agricultural use of nitrogen fertilizers expressed in tonnes of plant nutrient (N), covering all nitrogenous mineral or chemical fertilizers (ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, compound NPK products counted by their N content, and others). Agricultural use is estimated by FAO from production, imports, exports and non-agricultural use. FAOSTAT domain RFN, item Nutrient nitrogen N (total) (3102), element Agricultural Use (5157), unit t. Annual.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
fertilizer-nitrogen-use
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
RFN:3102:5157last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-30(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000,000,000 tonnes of nitrogen.
64 periods with values for this geography, 1961 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (tonnes of nitrogen)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-30115,205,4152026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.