Statizoid

Equatorial Guinea vs USSR: Nitrogen use efficiency

Equatorial Guinea
506.2%
in 2014
USSR
45.4%
in 1991
Equatorial Guinea rank
2nd
USSR rank
1st

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Equatorial Guinea
  • USSR
0100200300400500196119872014

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 506.2% against 45.4% in USSR, a difference of 460.8%.

That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 11.2 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was USSR ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 2nd and USSR ranks 1st 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.