Chile vs India: Nitrogen use efficiency

Chile

36.1%

in 2014

India

34.3%

in 2014

Chile rank

127th

India rank

129th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

Chile
India

How they compare

Chile currently reports 36.1% against 34.3% in India, a difference of 1.8%.

That makes Chile's figure about 1.1 times India's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 127th and India ranks 129th of 204 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrogen use efficiency in Chile
Nitrogen use efficiency in India
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.