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Botswana vs New Zealand: Nitrogen use efficiency

Botswana
4.5%
in 2014
New Zealand
5.2%
in 2014
Botswana rank
197th
New Zealand rank
195th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Botswana
  • New Zealand
510152025196119872014

How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 5.2% against 4.5% in Botswana, a difference of 0.8%.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 1.2 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 197th and New Zealand ranks 195th 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.