Costa Rica vs Nicaragua: Insecticide use

Costa Rica

1,729 tonnes

in 2023

Nicaragua

1,565 tonnes

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

40th

Nicaragua rank

43rd

Insecticide use over time

Costa Rica currently reports 1,729 tonnes against 1,565 tonnes in Nicaragua, a difference of 164 tonnes.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

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

Costa Rica ranks 40th 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.