Statizoid

Chile vs Nicaragua: Nitrogen use efficiency

Chile
36.1%
in 2014
Nicaragua
34.1%
in 2014
Chile rank
127th
Nicaragua rank
130th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Chile
  • Nicaragua
255075100125196119872014

How they compare

Chile currently reports 36.1% against 34.1% in Nicaragua, a difference of 2.0%.

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

The two have swapped places 17 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Chile ranks 127th and Nicaragua ranks 130th 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.