Statizoid

France vs Sierra Leone: Nitrogen use efficiency

France
73.9%
in 2014
Sierra Leone
78.9%
in 2014
France rank
47th
Sierra Leone rank
45th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • France
  • Sierra Leone
020406080196119872014

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 78.9% against 73.9% in France, a difference of 5.0%.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.1 times France's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

France ranks 47th and Sierra Leone ranks 45th 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.