Data for 1994
Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994
1994, as FAO’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten
Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994 covers 181 countries on 5 measures. Singapore is highest, at 2,935.583; Solomon Islands is lowest, at -55.882. The middle country reads 28.864. Against 1993, 181 values changed (97 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.
Cropland Nitrogen Balance · Data for 1994
HighestSingapore
2,935.583LowestSolomon Islands
-55.882Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
01Values only
The table
Every country and every column of Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.
Showing 25 of 181 countries · select a heading to sort
| 2,935.583 | 2,963.16 | 27.577 | 0.931 | 3,522.7 | |
| 501.147 | 554.80 | 53.658 | 9.672 | 3,006.9 | |
| 419.920 | 434.43 | 14.512 | 3.340 | 6,298.8 | |
| 359.968 | 502.64 | 142.672 | 28.385 | 540.0 | |
| 290.757 | 387.03 | 96.271 | 24.874 | 117,262.3 | |
| 289.268 | 356.56 | 67.296 | 18.874 | 2,024.9 | |
| 268.080 | 298.14 | 30.056 | 10.081 | 21,982.5 | |
| 258.837 | 323.76 | 64.918 | 20.052 | 299,888.6 | |
| 251.013 | 349.48 | 98.471 | 28.176 | 218,883.5 | |
| 232.581 | 307.80 | 75.222 | 24.438 | 472,836.9 | |
| 194.834 | 281.81 | 86.972 | 30.862 | 1,163,551.1 | |
| 180.500 | 248.63 | 68.129 | 27.402 | 79,894.7 | |
| 174.992 | 216.42 | 41.432 | 19.144 | 2,274.9 | |
| 153.486 | 179.63 | 26.143 | 14.554 | 138,290.4 | |
| 147.182 | 274.49 | 127.304 | 46.379 | 443,409.7 | |
| 142.630 | 223.01 | 80.384 | 36.045 | 338,602.8 | |
| 141.126 | 219.54 | 78.414 | 35.718 | 18,346,318.8 | |
| 138.353 | 138.58 | 0.231 | 0.167 | 345.9 | |
| 133.381 | 196.99 | 63.608 | 32.290 | 908,591.5 | |
| 133.335 | 182.94 | 49.608 | 27.117 | 952.0 | |
| 127.624 | 175.18 | 47.559 | 27.148 | 29,353.6 | |
| 126.049 | 188.95 | 62.898 | 33.289 | 65,545.3 | |
| 122.438 | 131.53 | 9.087 | 6.909 | 979.5 | |
| 121.491 | 169.90 | 48.410 | 28.493 | 1,064,018.2 | |
| 116.877 | 192.58 | 75.706 | 39.311 | 1,406,842.7 | |
| 115.438 | 115.73 | 0.289 | 0.250 | 15,584.2 | |
| 114.329 | 146.54 | 32.213 | 21.982 | 16,166.1 | |
| 111.660 | 144.37 | 32.710 | 22.657 | 1,786.6 | |
| 105.318 | 176.17 | 70.848 | 40.217 | 2,030,979.5 | |
| 102.381 | 162.71 | 60.329 | 37.078 | 264,287.6 | |
| 99.328 | 140.05 | 40.723 | 29.077 | 43,108.5 | |
| 96.669 | 169.70 | 73.029 | 43.035 | 144,906.4 | |
| 86.609 | 108.71 | 22.098 | 20.328 | 346.4 | |
| 84.479 | 132.75 | 48.269 | 36.361 | 941,350.1 | |
| 82.078 | 144.43 | 62.350 | 43.170 | 417,200.2 | |
| 81.528 | 122.86 | 41.328 | 33.639 | 99,545.5 | |
| 79.830 | 118.11 | 38.281 | 32.411 | 221,928.3 | |
| 78.584 | 185.77 | 107.189 | 57.699 | 1,335.9 | |
| 73.851 | 123.81 | 49.957 | 40.350 | 250,650.2 | |
| 73.123 | 134.42 | 61.299 | 45.602 | 353,915.3 | |
| 70.825 | 92.18 | 21.358 | 23.169 | 49,719.1 | |
| 68.094 | 96.65 | 28.557 | 29.546 | 4,902.8 | |
| 68.028 | 93.09 | 25.063 | 26.923 | 44,966.5 | |
| 66.211 | 74.35 | 8.142 | 10.950 | 331.1 | |
| 64.127 | 115.98 | 51.857 | 44.711 | 306,657.4 | |
| 63.429 | 68.84 | 5.410 | 7.858 | 83,853.5 | |
| 62.701 | 78.75 | 16.054 | 20.385 | 185,092.3 | |
| 61.110 | 99.12 | 38.012 | 38.349 | 10,408,579.9 | |
| 60.922 | 84.19 | 23.267 | 27.637 | 205,064.1 | |
| 60.898 | 92.34 | 31.444 | 34.052 | 155,289.1 | |
| 60.585 | 84.92 | 24.336 | 28.657 | 386,047.3 | |
| 59.793 | 114.57 | 54.772 | 47.809 | 234,388.8 | |
| 59.468 | 68.44 | 8.968 | 13.104 | 2,616.6 | |
| 58.994 | 108.66 | 49.662 | 45.706 | 140,972.3 | |
| 58.613 | 81.08 | 22.470 | 27.712 | 1,142,719.5 | |
| 57.736 | 87.15 | 29.417 | 33.753 | 1,777,683.7 | |
| 56.096 | 102.47 | 46.374 | 45.256 | 1,692,483.8 | |
| 55.958 | 109.41 | 53.450 | 48.854 | 3,805.2 | |
| 54.314 | 68.51 | 14.198 | 20.723 | 325.9 | |
| 48.429 | 87.67 | 39.241 | 44.760 | 709,575.5 | |
| 46.803 | 90.70 | 43.901 | 48.401 | 89,393.8 | |
| 44.523 | 82.69 | 38.169 | 46.158 | 38,022.3 | |
| 44.155 | 98.29 | 54.131 | 55.075 | 71,133.2 | |
| 44.080 | 78.62 | 34.540 | 43.933 | 185,884.7 | |
| 41.621 | 71.21 | 29.591 | 41.554 | 37,042.5 | |
| 41.532 | 62.71 | 21.181 | 33.774 | 90,955.6 | |
| 39.881 | 51.99 | 12.108 | 23.289 | 38,325.6 | |
| 39.445 | 70.76 | 31.311 | 44.252 | 810,125.2 | |
| 39.439 | 117.35 | 77.914 | 66.393 | 49,589.8 | |
| 39.151 | 52.48 | 13.328 | 25.397 | 208,420.2 | |
| 39.012 | 92.41 | 53.400 | 57.785 | 73,459.0 | |
| 38.664 | 109.19 | 70.525 | 64.590 | 1,986,249.5 | |
| 37.589 | 68.15 | 30.566 | 44.847 | 935,483.3 | |
| 37.534 | 50.94 | 13.404 | 26.315 | 75.1 | |
| 36.654 | 75.99 | 39.341 | 51.768 | 35,554.1 | |
| 35.941 | 62.14 | 26.198 | 42.160 | 1,234,816.0 | |
| 35.711 | 91.17 | 55.454 | 60.828 | 6,575,759.7 | |
| 35.108 | 68.20 | 33.095 | 48.524 | 48,360.8 | |
| 34.882 | 53.05 | 18.169 | 34.249 | 91,739.2 | |
| 33.756 | 77.68 | 43.921 | 56.543 | 270.0 | |
| 32.246 | 81.93 | 49.683 | 60.642 | 160,392.3 | |
| 31.988 | 44.56 | 12.574 | 28.217 | 55,659.5 | |
| 31.051 | 52.79 | 21.735 | 41.175 | 20,649.0 | |
| 31.008 | 66.48 | 35.472 | 53.358 | 307,780.6 | |
| 30.486 | 63.96 | 33.477 | 52.338 | 307,174.5 | |
| 30.093 | 57.44 | 27.346 | 47.608 | 113,774.3 | |
| 29.723 | 52.20 | 22.477 | 43.060 | 39,769.5 | |
| 29.585 | 56.37 | 26.789 | 47.520 | 89,818.9 | |
| 29.096 | 55.97 | 26.878 | 48.018 | 5,382.8 | |
| 29.011 | 117.48 | 88.464 | 75.305 | 232.1 | |
| 28.864 | 53.08 | 24.221 | 45.626 | 538,521.6 | |
| 28.166 | 47.36 | 19.198 | 40.532 | 40,052.5 | |
| 28.102 | 67.89 | 39.793 | 58.609 | 8,627.3 | |
| 28.033 | 111.92 | 83.883 | 74.952 | 2,102.5 | |
| 25.216 | 36.69 | 11.469 | 31.264 | 28,418.7 | |
| 24.189 | 57.51 | 33.320 | 57.939 | 162,302.8 | |
| 23.909 | 43.62 | 19.706 | 45.183 | 23,430.6 | |
| 23.515 | 55.47 | 31.951 | 57.605 | 258.7 | |
| 23.363 | 33.18 | 9.812 | 29.577 | 89,118.4 | |
| 21.140 | 35.84 | 14.698 | 41.012 | 2,756,704.7 | |
| 20.950 | 41.14 | 20.194 | 49.081 | 105,710.8 | |
| 20.668 | 50.73 | 30.067 | 59.263 | 113,405.1 | |
| 20.371 | 50.84 | 30.467 | 59.929 | 565,732.8 | |
| 20.362 | 28.98 | 8.616 | 29.734 | 9,366.5 | |
| 19.384 | 52.04 | 32.660 | 62.755 | 44,620.4 | |
| 19.347 | 35.29 | 15.940 | 45.171 | 9,673.6 | |
| 18.265 | 34.26 | 15.994 | 46.686 | 58,721.1 | |
| 17.413 | 42.91 | 25.500 | 59.422 | 56,006.1 | |
| 17.209 | 54.52 | 37.311 | 68.436 | 301.2 | |
| 16.568 | 80.93 | 64.364 | 79.529 | 42,312.2 | |
| 16.066 | 49.43 | 33.361 | 67.496 | 663,648.4 | |
| 15.942 | 26.73 | 10.785 | 40.353 | 45,802.2 | |
| 14.301 | 20.31 | 6.014 | 29.603 | 28,279.8 | |
| 14.257 | 46.45 | 32.190 | 69.304 | 35,871.2 | |
| 14.242 | 28.45 | 14.210 | 49.944 | 5,654.0 | |
| 13.673 | 34.50 | 20.831 | 60.373 | 8,340.3 | |
| 13.265 | 17.77 | 4.506 | 25.354 | 28,852.0 | |
| 12.999 | 29.97 | 16.967 | 56.620 | 3,652.7 | |
| 12.901 | 67.94 | 55.034 | 81.010 | 125,592.8 | |
| 12.394 | 24.51 | 12.113 | 49.428 | 129,785.6 | |
| 12.125 | 28.24 | 16.111 | 57.058 | 18,976.2 | |
| 11.668 | 17.32 | 5.656 | 32.648 | 56,157.7 | |
| 11.539 | 35.04 | 23.499 | 67.068 | 158,831.2 | |
| 10.932 | 15.43 | 4.497 | 29.147 | 87,525.0 | |
| 9.824 | 56.57 | 46.750 | 82.636 | 275,237.7 | |
| 9.696 | 29.80 | 20.100 | 67.459 | 10,665.9 | |
| 9.200 | 26.97 | 17.772 | 65.891 | 32,015.7 | |
| 9.011 | 19.79 | 10.778 | 54.466 | 34,240.4 | |
| 8.950 | 30.63 | 21.682 | 70.783 | 53,181.3 | |
| 8.412 | 17.55 | 9.138 | 52.069 | 60,226.6 | |
| 8.370 | 12.12 | 3.748 | 30.931 | 3,314.4 | |
| 8.287 | 20.39 | 12.098 | 59.349 | 28,340.6 | |
| 8.265 | 24.85 | 16.585 | 66.742 | 1,314.1 | |
| 7.905 | 28.36 | 20.457 | 72.128 | 16,065.3 | |
| 7.273 | 22.42 | 15.144 | 67.555 | 3,192.9 | |
| 7.051 | 23.29 | 16.239 | 69.727 | 14,030.5 | |
| 6.830 | 17.31 | 10.480 | 60.543 | 15,367.4 | |
| 6.412 | 13.81 | 7.402 | 53.584 | 20,518.3 | |
| 6.407 | 17.03 | 10.625 | 62.383 | 2,107.8 | |
| 5.670 | 15.73 | 10.055 | 63.941 | 197,488.5 | |
| 5.439 | 24.42 | 18.978 | 77.726 | 12,128.0 | |
| 5.337 | 13.58 | 8.243 | 60.696 | 2,668.7 | |
| 4.468 | 48.68 | 44.209 | 90.821 | 80,617.7 | |
| 4.386 | 22.33 | 17.947 | 80.363 | 30,654.5 | |
| 4.283 | 15.59 | 11.305 | 72.523 | 14,360.2 | |
| 4.136 | 16.57 | 12.438 | 75.047 | 40,942.0 | |
| 3.932 | 8.49 | 4.561 | 53.703 | 2,949.2 | |
| 3.905 | 12.55 | 8.646 | 68.889 | 1,889.8 | |
| 3.823 | 12.98 | 9.160 | 70.553 | 29,870.4 | |
| 3.571 | 18.67 | 15.099 | 80.871 | 15,907.6 | |
| 3.402 | 15.10 | 11.699 | 77.474 | 1,748.0 | |
| 2.898 | 14.93 | 12.028 | 80.586 | 2,912.0 | |
| 2.762 | 16.67 | 13.904 | 83.426 | 290.0 | |
| 2.597 | 65.49 | 62.890 | 96.034 | 703.8 | |
| 2.433 | 24.15 | 21.716 | 89.927 | 4,468.7 | |
| 2.140 | 6.55 | 4.406 | 67.312 | 27,813.2 | |
| 1.711 | 22.74 | 21.026 | 92.474 | 61,435.8 | |
| 1.635 | 43.32 | 41.687 | 96.226 | 6,843.8 | |
| 1.545 | 20.35 | 18.805 | 92.409 | 2,008.2 | |
| 0.757 | 14.18 | 13.418 | 94.661 | 1,309.4 | |
| 0.676 | 17.49 | 16.813 | 96.136 | 4,058.4 | |
| 0.235 | 20.71 | 20.479 | 98.864 | 1,858.6 | |
| -1.358 | 7.65 | 9.013 | 117.739 | -135.8 | |
| -1.505 | 21.97 | 23.471 | 106.850 | -4,920.7 | |
| -2.273 | 32.59 | 34.864 | 106.974 | -63.6 | |
| -2.318 | 20.99 | 23.311 | 111.042 | -23,097.2 | |
| -3.133 | 14.34 | 17.472 | 121.846 | -14,097.0 | |
| -10.262 | 23.58 | 33.846 | 143.512 | -8,445.5 | |
| -12.866 | 8.81 | 21.678 | 246.021 | -386.0 | |
| -13.745 | 44.74 | 58.480 | 130.724 | -6,012.7 | |
| -14.372 | 64.13 | 78.499 | 122.412 | -3,357.2 | |
| -19.104 | 132.10 | 151.206 | 114.462 | -2,240.4 | |
| -19.927 | 14.98 | 34.909 | 233.003 | -139.5 | |
| -21.537 | 29.15 | 50.688 | 173.882 | -1,055.3 | |
| -23.650 | 38.32 | 61.970 | 161.716 | -2,223.1 | |
| -24.487 | 10.59 | 35.078 | 331.201 | -3,011.8 | |
| -25.459 | 50.74 | 76.201 | 150.173 | -10.2 | |
| -28.243 | 6.75 | 34.994 | 518.375 | -1,045.0 | |
| -36.428 | 152.51 | 188.938 | 123.886 | -3,587.8 | |
| -54.209 | 32.46 | 86.669 | 267.002 | -10,299.7 | |
| -55.882 | 12.63 | 68.512 | 542.467 | -3,688.2 |
02In 1994
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Lowest
Solomon Islands-55.882
Eswatini-54.209
Mauritius-36.428
Kiribati-28.243
Nauru-25.459
Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 28.864. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
Nitrogen inputs (kg per hectare)
Highest
Singapore2,963.16
Lowest
Niger6.55
Middle country: 56.57
Nitrogen removed in harvests (kg per hectare)
Highest
Mauritius188.938
Lowest
Micronesia0.231
Middle country: 28.557
Nitrogen use efficiency (%)
Highest
Solomon Islands542.467
Lowest
Micronesia0.167
Middle country: 48.401
Nitrogen balance, whole country (tonnes)
Highest
China18,346,318.8
Lowest
Morocco-23,097.2
Middle country: 35,554.1
031993 → 1994
Since 1993
What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +0 / −0countries joined / left
- 181values changed, of 181 in both
- 97 · 84rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
Singapore2,497.278 → 2,935.583+438.305
Qatar149.442 → 419.920+270.477
Kuwait446.264 → 501.147+54.882
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines82.208 → 133.335+51.127
Vietnam89.024 → 133.381+44.357
Fell most
North Korea236.215 → 102.381−133.834
Saint Lucia82.187 → 17.209−64.978
Egypt177.999 → 147.182−30.817
Eswatini-27.162 → -54.209−27.047
Lebanon54.899 → 28.102−26.797
Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.
04Caveats
Read before you use
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
One year of the 2025 release
Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.
Which end is better
Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 181 countries has every column.
05The files
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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1994). Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cropland-nitrogen-balance/1994
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07Questions
Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994: questions and answers
Which country has the highest cropland nitrogen balance in Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994?
Singapore, at 2,935.583, of the 181 countries in the file.
What year does Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994 describe?
1994.
How many countries does Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994 cover?
181.
Where can I download Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994?
On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
Is Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 1994 the newest?
No. The newest held here is Cropland Nitrogen Balance, 2023.