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Colombia vs Costa Rica: Nitrogen use efficiency

Colombia
25.9%
in 2014
Costa Rica
24.3%
in 2014
Colombia rank
149th
Costa Rica rank
152nd

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
1020304050196119872014

How they compare

Colombia currently reports 25.9% against 24.3% in Costa Rica, a difference of 1.6%.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.1 times Costa Rica's.

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

Colombia ranks 149th and Costa Rica ranks 152nd 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.