India vs Turkey: Insecticide use

India

20,619 tonnes

in 2023

Turkey

18,619 tonnes

in 2023

India rank

6th

Turkey rank

7th

Insecticide use over time

India currently reports 20,619 tonnes against 18,619 tonnes in Turkey, a difference of 2,000 tonnes.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Turkey's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was India ahead.

India ranks 6th and Turkey ranks 7th 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.