Italy vs Spain: Insecticide use

Italy

9,206 tonnes

in 2023

Spain

9,978 tonnes

in 2023

Italy rank

15th

Spain rank

13th

Insecticide use over time

Spain currently reports 9,978 tonnes against 9,206 tonnes in Italy, a difference of 772 tonnes.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Italy ahead.

Italy ranks 15th and Spain ranks 13th 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.