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Puerto Rico vs Saint Lucia: Nitrogen use efficiency

Puerto Rico
7.5%
in 2014
Saint Lucia
10.0%
in 2014
Puerto Rico rank
186th
Saint Lucia rank
183rd

Nitrogen use efficiency over time

  • Puerto Rico
  • Saint Lucia
0204060196119872014

How they compare

Saint Lucia currently reports 10.0% against 7.5% in Puerto Rico, a difference of 2.5%.

That makes Saint Lucia's figure about 1.3 times Puerto Rico's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Puerto Rico ranks 186th and Saint Lucia ranks 183rd 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.