Barbados vs New Caledonia: Insecticide use

Barbados

5 tonnes

in 2023

New Caledonia

6 tonnes

in 2023

Barbados rank

181st

New Caledonia rank

180th

Insecticide use over time

New Caledonia currently reports 6 tonnes against 5 tonnes in Barbados, a difference of 1 tonnes.

That makes New Caledonia's figure about 1.2 times Barbados's.

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

Barbados ranks 181st and New Caledonia ranks 180th 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.