Malaysia vs USSR: Nitrogen use efficiency

Malaysia

262.1%

in 2014

USSR

45.4%

in 1991

Malaysia rank

3rd

USSR rank

1st

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

Malaysia
USSR

How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 262.1% against 45.4% in USSR, a difference of 216.7%.

That makes Malaysia's figure about 5.8 times USSR's.

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

Malaysia ranks 3rd and USSR ranks 1st of 204 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrogen use efficiency in Malaysia
Nitrogen use efficiency in USSR
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.