India vs Pakistan: Insecticide use

India

20,619 tonnes

in 2023

Pakistan

26,702 tonnes

in 2023

India rank

6th

Pakistan rank

5th

Insecticide use over time

Pakistan currently reports 26,702 tonnes against 20,619 tonnes in India, a difference of 6,083 tonnes.

That makes Pakistan's figure about 1.3 times India's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was India ahead.

India ranks 6th and Pakistan ranks 5th 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.