Japan vs Turkey: Insecticide use

Japan

13,382 tonnes

in 2023

Turkey

18,619 tonnes

in 2023

Japan rank

10th

Turkey rank

7th

Insecticide use over time

Turkey currently reports 18,619 tonnes against 13,382 tonnes in Japan, a difference of 5,237 tonnes.

That makes Turkey's figure about 1.4 times Japan's.

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

Japan ranks 10th 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.