Inorganic fertilizers (1961–2018)

FAOSTAT provides statistics at country, regional and global levels on the production, trade and agricultural use of inorganic fertilizers. This brief provides a summary of the global levels of inorganic fertilizers use in agriculture from 1961 to 2018 and their ratio by area of cropland. It also analyses use levels by region. At the country level, it shows the top producers and top consumers of inorganic fertilizers and their high share of the world total, and briefly looks at the internal heterogeneity of regions in the use of fertilizers among their countries, at both the absolute level and per area of cropland.