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Cape Verde vs Japan: Nitrogen use efficiency

Cape Verde
28.6%
in 2014
Japan
27.9%
in 2014
Cape Verde rank
142nd
Japan rank
144th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Japan
20406080196119872014

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 28.6% against 27.9% in Japan, a difference of 0.8%.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 142nd and Japan ranks 144th 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.