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Algeria vs China: Nitrogen use efficiency

Algeria
30.1%
in 2014
China
32.0%
in 2014
Algeria rank
138th
China rank
135th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Algeria
  • China
50100150200196119872014

How they compare

China currently reports 32.0% against 30.1% in Algeria, a difference of 1.9%.

That makes China's figure about 1.1 times Algeria's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Algeria ahead.

Algeria ranks 138th and China ranks 135th of 204 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Nitrogen use efficiency
Unit
%
Source
Lassaletta et al. (2014) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
205 places, 10,031 data points, 1961–2014
Last refreshed

Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is the ratio between nitrogen inputs and output. A NUE of 40% means that only 40% of nitrogen inputs are converted into nitrogen in the form of crops.