Australia vs Nigeria: Insecticide use

Australia

11,511 tonnes

in 2023

Nigeria

13,227 tonnes

in 2023

Australia rank

12th

Nigeria rank

11th

Insecticide use over time

Nigeria currently reports 13,227 tonnes against 11,511 tonnes in Australia, a difference of 1,716 tonnes.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 12th and Nigeria ranks 11th of 211 countries.

Indicator: Insecticide use
Unit: tonnes
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 211 places, 7,015 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual quantity of insecticides used in agriculture, measured as the tonnes of active ingredient per year.