Botswana vs Western Sahara: Nitrogen use efficiency

Botswana
4.5%
in 2014
Western Sahara
5.2%
in 2014
Botswana rank
197th
Western Sahara rank
196th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Botswana
  • Western Sahara
510152025196119872014

How they compare

Western Sahara currently reports 5.2% against 4.5% in Botswana, a difference of 0.7%.

That makes Western Sahara's figure about 1.2 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 46 shared years of data; in 1969 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 197th and Western Sahara ranks 196th 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.