Brazil vs China: Insecticide use

Brazil

127,282 tonnes

in 2023

China

58,756 tonnes

in 2023

Brazil rank

2nd

China rank

4th

Insecticide use over time

Brazil currently reports 127,282 tonnes against 58,756 tonnes in China, a difference of 68,526 tonnes.

That makes Brazil's figure about 2.2 times China's.

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

Brazil ranks 2nd and China ranks 4th 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.