Cropland Nitrogen Balance

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: cropland-nitrogen-balance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Cropland Nitrogen Balance: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	187	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	187	0
Cropland nitrogen balance (kg per hectare)nitrogen_balanceHeadline	The headline figure: Nitrogen surplus (+) or deficit (−) on cropland, kg per hectare.	Number · up to 4 decimals	-555.524Micronesia1,198.829Singaporemiddle 37.634	187	0
Nitrogen inputs (kg per hectare)nitrogen_inputsMeasure	All nitrogen added to cropland, per hectare: mineral fertiliser, manure applied, fixation by crops and deposition from the air.	Number · up to 4 decimals	9.796Vanuatu1,361.290Singaporemiddle 85.858	187	0
Nitrogen removed in harvests (kg per hectare)nitrogen_outputsMeasure	The nitrogen removed from cropland in the harvest, per hectare; the balance is the inputs minus this.	Number · up to 4 decimals	1.415Iceland762.680Micronesiamiddle 41.560	187	0
Nitrogen use efficiency (%)nitrogen_use_efficiencyMeasure	The harvest's nitrogen as a share of the nitrogen put on, in %; above about 90% the soil is usually being drawn down.	Number · up to 4 decimals	1.5999Iceland732.4760Kiribatimiddle 51.3704	187	0
Nitrogen balance, whole country (tonnes)nitrogen_balance_totalMeasure	The same balance for all of the country's cropland, in tonnes, which shows how much nitrogen lies behind a per-hectare figure.	Number · up to 4 decimals	-60,193Ghana19,399,358Chinamiddle 41,839	187	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 63 years.

Not in this dataset · 38 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandTimor-LesteTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Cropland Nitrogen Balance 2023

   Environment_Cropland_nutrient_budget_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   63 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as cropland-nitrogen-balance-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/cropland-nitrogen-balance

FAOSTAT's Cropland Nutrient Balance domain, read from FAO's own bulk download. The inputs, the removals, the nitrogen use efficiency and the national total are stored beside the balance.

• Charted

  Cropland Nitrogen Balance by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Food & Agriculture

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