Indonesia vs Iraq: Nitrogen use efficiency

Indonesia

80.4%

in 2014

Iraq

81.4%

in 2014

Indonesia rank

44th

Iraq rank

42nd

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

Indonesia
Iraq

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 81.4% against 80.4% in Indonesia, a difference of 1.0%.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Iraq ahead.

Indonesia ranks 44th and Iraq ranks 42nd of 204 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrogen use efficiency in Indonesia
Nitrogen use efficiency in Iraq
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.