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China vs El Salvador: Nitrogen use efficiency

China
32.0%
in 2014
El Salvador
30.8%
in 2014
China rank
135th
El Salvador rank
137th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • China
  • El Salvador
20406080196119872014

How they compare

China currently reports 32.0% against 30.8% in El Salvador, a difference of 1.2%.

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

China ranks 135th and El Salvador ranks 137th 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.