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Ghana vs Papua New Guinea: Nitrogen use efficiency

Ghana
136.8%
in 2014
Papua New Guinea
151.5%
in 2014
Ghana rank
12th
Papua New Guinea rank
10th

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Ghana
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 151.5% against 136.8% in Ghana, a difference of 14.8%.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Ghana ahead.

Ghana ranks 12th and Papua New Guinea ranks 10th 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.