Cameroon vs Nicaragua: Insecticide use

Cameroon

1,701 tonnes

in 2023

Nicaragua

1,565 tonnes

in 2023

Cameroon rank

41st

Nicaragua rank

43rd

Insecticide use over time

Cameroon currently reports 1,701 tonnes against 1,565 tonnes in Nicaragua, a difference of 136 tonnes.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 41st and Nicaragua ranks 43rd 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.