Bangladesh vs Netherlands: Insecticide use

Bangladesh

1,997 tonnes

in 2023

Netherlands

1,731 tonnes

in 2023

Bangladesh rank

37th

Netherlands rank

39th

Insecticide use over time

Bangladesh currently reports 1,997 tonnes against 1,731 tonnes in Netherlands, a difference of 266 tonnes.

That makes Bangladesh's figure about 1.2 times Netherlands's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Bangladesh ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 37th and Netherlands ranks 39th 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.