Which country has the highest Agricultural Use?

Brazil has the highest Agricultural Use in 2023, at 800.7K tons, followed by United States (429.5K tons) and Indonesia (294.9K tons).

Which country has the lowest Agricultural Use?

Tokelau has the lowest Agricultural Use in 2023, at 1 tons.

What is the median Agricultural Use across countries?

The median is 1,496 tons across the 201 countries with data in 2023.

Where does this pesticide usage by country data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Pesticides Use - FAOSTAT; Pesticide Use (Total) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States.

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Brazil has the highest Agricultural Use in 2023 (800.7K tons), followed by United States (429.5K tons) and Indonesia (294.9K tons). Tokelau has the lowest (1 tons).

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Median

1,496 tons

Middle half 167 tons – 7.3K tons

Average

18.5K tons

201 countries

Highest

800.7K tons

Brazil

Lowest

1 tons

Tokelau

Over time · 2021–2023

The top 5 in 2023, against the median.

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Brazil
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Indonesia
Argentina
China

Data

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1	Brazil	800.7K tons	12.63	3.79	$2.84
2	United States	429.5K tons	2.78	1.25	$1.14
3	Indonesia	294.9K tons	6.68	1.05	$2.81
4	Argentina	262.5K tons	6.33	3.87	$4.16
5	China	218K tons	1.71	0.15	$0.22
6	Australia	182.3K tons	5.81	3.94	$3.47
7	Vietnam	161.9K tons	13.9	1.61	$2.94
8	Russia	97K tons	0.78	0.67	$0.88
9	Canada	95.6K tons	2.5	2.43	$1.94
10	France	65.4K tons	3.65	0.98	$1.16
11	Turkey	57.6K tons	2.4	0.66	$0.71
12	Spain	52.9K tons	3.19	1.1	$1.12
13	Nigeria	48.2K tons	1.09	0.21	$0.72
14	Japan	45.6K tons	10.61	0.37	$1.69
15	South Africa	42K tons	3.39	0.67	$1.74
16	Germany	40.5K tons	3.41	0.48	$0.82
17	India	40.1K tons	0.24	0.03	$0.08
18	Italy	39.6K tons	4.17	0.67	$1.08
19	Philippines	37.7K tons	3.36	0.33	$1.20
20	Mexico	37.3K tons	1.53	0.29	$0.54
21	Ecuador	35.2K tons	14.62	1.96	$3.76
22	Malaysia	30.1K tons	3.65	0.86	$1.74
23	Pakistan	26.7K tons	0.86	0.11	$0.31
24	South Korea	20.4K tons	13.49	0.39	$1.32
25	Poland	20K tons	1.73	0.52	$0.59
26	Colombia	19.4K tons	3.89	0.37	$0.77
27	Ukraine	19.4K tons	0.57	0.51	$0.45
28	Cambodia	19.3K tons	4.15	1.11	$2.10
29	Paraguay	18.5K tons	3.98	2.7	$1.93
30	Chile	17.7K tons	9.23	0.9	$1.36
31	United Kingdom	17K tons	2.79	0.25	$0.62
32	Uruguay	16.4K tons	7.35	4.39	$2.74
33	Bolivia	15.8K tons	2.71	1.29	$2.04
34	Bangladesh	15.5K tons	1.76	0.09	$0.32
35	Nicaragua	15K tons	8.36	2.2	$4.66
36	Morocco	13.7K tons	1.56	0.36	$0.99
37	Guatemala	13K tons	4.74	0.72	$1.40
38	Myanmar	11.7K tons	0.94	0.22	$0.48
39	Egypt	11.6K tons	2.87	0.1	$0.30
40	Peru	10.6K tons	1.71	0.31	$0.57
41	Taiwan	10.5K tons	13.54	0.45	$1.56
42	Cameroon	9,906 tons	1.25	0.35	$0.95
43	Panama	9,849 tons	14.46	2.21	$5.71
44	Ghana	9,689 tons	1.31	0.29	$0.64
45	Honduras	9,684 tons	5.99	0.91	$2.89
46	Uganda	9,510 tons	1.05	0.2	$0.77
47	Costa Rica	9,451 tons	17.36	1.85	$2.11
48	Romania	9,157 tons	1.04	0.48	$0.70
49	Kazakhstan	8,811 tons	0.3	0.43	$0.59
50	Portugal	7,857 tons	4.35	0.75	$1.03
51	Netherlands	7,263 tons	6.95	0.4	$0.41
52	Benin	7,133 tons	1.71	0.51	$1.46
53	Moldova	6,979 tons	3.27	2.28	$2.60
54	Hungary	6,443 tons	1.5	0.67	$0.73
55	Israel	6,370 tons	17.09	0.69	$1.36
56	Algeria	6,067 tons	0.71	0.13	$0.37
57	Iran	5,856 tons	0.33	0.06	$0.16
58	New Zealand	5,285 tons	8.93	1.02	$0.30
59	Austria	5,251 tons	3.79	0.58	$0.87
60	Kenya	5,162 tons	0.69	0.09	$0.30
61	Mongolia	5,115 tons	4.45	1.49	$1.68
62	Belarus	4,853 tons	0.86	0.53	$0.43
63	Belgium	4,801 tons	5.42	0.41	$0.54
64	Czechia	4,573 tons	1.78	0.42	$0.79
65	Greece	4,217 tons	1.46	0.41	$0.39
66	Zambia	4,197 tons	1.09	0.2	$1.00
67	Ethiopia	4,128 tons	0.22	0.03	$0.20
68	Sudan	4,083 tons	0.19	0.08	$0.29
69	Venezuela	3,928 tons	1.19	0.14	—
70	Burkina Faso	3,838 tons	0.45	0.17	$0.54
71	Bulgaria	3,430 tons	0.95	0.5	$0.71
72	Denmark	3,314 tons	1.38	0.56	$0.38
73	Mozambique	3,287 tons	0.54	0.1	$0.66
74	Thailand	3,273 tons	0.15	0.05	$0.07
75	Finland	3,251 tons	1.45	0.58	$1.11
76	Saudi Arabia	3,213 tons	0.88	0.1	$0.39
77	Tunisia	3,195 tons	0.65	0.26	$0.50
78	Lithuania	3,013 tons	1.29	1.06	$0.94
79	Georgia	2,938 tons	6.8	0.77	$2.35
80	El Salvador	2,787 tons	3.16	0.44	$1.75
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,723 tons	6.13	0.86	$1.82
82	Ireland	2,274 tons	5.16	0.44	$0.28
83	Serbia	2,249 tons	0.8	0.33	$0.33
84	Zimbabwe	2,185 tons	0.54	0.13	$0.30
85	Suriname	2,149 tons	38.77	3.42	$5.51
86	Malawi	2,036 tons	0.48	0.1	$0.20
87	Sweden	2,033 tons	0.8	0.19	$0.47
88	Rwanda	2,027 tons	1.35	0.15	$0.55
89	Dominican Republic	1,984 tons	1.31	0.18	$0.29
90	Syria	1,897 tons	0.35	0.08	$0.24
91	Lebanon	1,816 tons	6.62	0.31	$0.98
92	Sri Lanka	1,799 tons	0.7	0.08	$0.23
93	Slovakia	1,792 tons	1.35	0.32	$0.82
94	Libya	1,713 tons	0.84	0.23	$0.91
95	Latvia	1,666 tons	1.22	0.89	$1.05
96	Turkmenistan	1,647 tons	1.01	0.22	$0.33
97	Jamaica	1,642 tons	8.73	0.58	$1.88
98	DR Congo	1,626 tons	0.1	0.02	$0.13
99	Switzerland	1,531 tons	3.63	0.17	$0.41
100	Yemen	1,504 tons	1.04	0.04	$0.45
101	Belize	1,496 tons	11.33	3.64	$6.74
102	Togo	1,425 tons	0.51	0.15	$0.90
103	Palestine	1,348 tons	11.91	0.25	$1.69
104	Botswana	1,272 tons	4.85	0.51	$2.50
105	Croatia	1,224 tons	1.29	0.31	$0.54
106	Papua New Guinea	1,211 tons	1	0.12	$0.31
106	Eswatini	1,211 tons	6.21	0.98	$2.67
108	Namibia	1,188 tons	1.46	0.4	$2.03
109	Kuwait	1,181 tons	—	0.24	$1.73
110	Nepal	1,175 tons	0.6	0.04	$0.11
111	Trinidad and Tobago	1,173 tons	24.96	0.78	$7.30
112	Haiti	1,126 tons	0.86	0.1	$0.73
113	Qatar	1,089 tons	35.11	0.37	$6.17
114	Liberia	1,043 tons	1.49	0.19	$1.58
115	Armenia	1,012 tons	2.01	0.34	$0.66
116	Gabon	958 tons	1.93	0.39	$1.70
117	Cyprus	825 tons	6.5	0.61	$1.66
118	Cuba	788 tons	0.22	0.07	$0.23
119	Somalia	747 tons	0.66	0.04	$0.32
120	Madagascar	720 tons	0.2	0.02	$0.15
121	Estonia	709 tons	0.99	0.52	$0.78
122	Mauritania	698 tons	1.52	0.14	$0.68
123	Slovenia	695 tons	2.98	0.33	$0.76
124	Tajikistan	684 tons	0.65	0.07	$0.15
125	Jordan	650 tons	2.26	0.06	$0.28
126	Norway	629 tons	0.78	0.11	$0.31
127	Fiji	612 tons	4.42	0.66	$1.89
128	Kyrgyzstan	578 tons	0.42	0.08	$0.16
129	Iraq	576 tons	0.1	0.01	$0.14
129	Senegal	576 tons	0.15	0.03	$0.12
129	Cayman Islands	576 tons	—	—	—
132	Mauritius	563 tons	7.13	0.44	$1.77
133	Gambia	556 tons	1.24	0.21	$3.77
134	Lesotho	551 tons	1.53	0.24	$2.83
135	Azerbaijan	543 tons	0.23	0.05	$0.09
136	Maldives	461 tons	23.67	0.88	$10.32
137	Guyana	458 tons	3.63	0.55	$0.51
138	Aruba	449 tons	—	4.16	—
139	Macau	426 tons	—	0.6	$8.96
140	Oman	415 tons	3.41	0.08	$0.32
141	Sierra Leone	361 tons	0.21	0.04	$0.22
142	Albania	296 tons	0.44	0.11	$0.14
143	French Polynesia	287 tons	10.09	1.02	$9.11
144	Saint Lucia	264 tons	27.59	1.47	$8.96
145	Central African Republic	260 tons	0.1	0.05	$0.09
146	New Caledonia	253 tons	26.06	0.87	$6.91
147	Samoa	252 tons	5.95	1.16	$4.76
148	Antigua and Barbuda	229 tons	36.59	2.45	—
149	Laos	187 tons	0.12	0.02	$0.03
150	Bahamas	178 tons	16.19	0.45	$3.43
151	Brunei	167 tons	16.69	0.36	$2.26
152	Bhutan	153 tons	1.34	0.19	$1.10
153	Djibouti	133 tons	34.16	0.12	$1.56
154	Grenada	129 tons	18.46	1.1	$4.96
155	Bermuda	124 tons	—	1.91	—
156	Luxembourg	116 tons	1.85	0.17	$0.38
157	Guinea	111 tons	0.02	0.01	$0.02
158	Seychelles	110 tons	19.48	0.86	$9.36
159	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109 tons	21.89	1.08	$3.08
160	Malta	106 tons	12.74	0.2	$1.48
161	Saint Kitts and Nevis	101 tons	19.89	2.17	$7.79
162	North Macedonia	98 tons	0.21	0.05	$0.09
163	Turks and Caicos Islands	89 tons	28.04	1.92	—
164	Montenegro	86 tons	6.02	0.14	$0.56
165	Guinea-Bissau	82 tons	0.13	0.04	$0.15
166	Equatorial Guinea	78 tons	0.78	0.04	$0.91
167	Barbados	68 tons	8.55	0.24	$1.25
168	Anguilla	66 tons	—	4.57	—
169	Hong Kong	55 tons	18.33	0.01	$0.35
170	Chad	52 tons	0.01	—	$0.01
170	Mayotte	52 tons	2.7	0.17	—
172	Burundi	50 tons	0.03	—	$0.02
172	Sint Maarten	50 tons	—	1.18	—
174	Angola	40 tons	0.01	—	—
174	Comoros	40 tons	0.34	0.05	$0.34
174	Solomon Islands	40 tons	0.39	0.05	$0.27
177	Kiribati	33 tons	0.98	0.25	$0.79
178	Eritrea	28 tons	0.04	0.01	$0.07
179	Niger	26 tons	—	—	—
180	Palau	25 tons	10.8	1.4	—
181	Ivory Coast	23 tons	—	—	—
181	Faroe Islands	23 tons	—	0.43	$3.48
183	Tonga	20 tons	0.65	0.19	$0.55
184	Sao Tome and Principe	19 tons	0.44	0.08	$0.47
185	Bahrain	18 tons	4.31	0.01	$0.11
186	British Virgin Islands	17 tons	8.46	0.43	—
187	Vanuatu	16 tons	0.11	0.05	$0.08
187	Andorra	16 tons	21.55	0.2	—
189	Cook Islands	15 tons	7.86	1.05	$6.09
189	Montserrat	15 tons	7.38	3.34	—
191	Micronesia	12 tons	6.13	0.11	$0.52
192	Guam	9 tons	1.08	0.05	—
192	Greenland	9 tons	—	0.15	—
194	Nauru	7 tons	16.89	0.57	$8.13
195	Cape Verde	5 tons	0.09	0.01	$0.12
196	Mali	4 tons	—	—	—
197	Iceland	2 tons	0.01	—	$0.01
197	Tuvalu	2 tons	1.21	0.22	$1.50
197	Niue	2 tons	0.44	0.92	$0.68
200	Tanzania	1 tons	—	—	—
200	Tokelau	1 tons	1.46	0.36	$0.89
—	Northern Mariana Islands	—	0.41	—	—
—	Falkland Islands	—	—	0.09	—

What correlates with Agricultural Use (2023)?

Pearson r against 1,361 other country metrics sharing at least 121 countries. Correlation is not causation.

Higher together

Places that have a higher Agricultural Use tend to score higher on these

Exports of Top Agricultural Commodity by ValueAgricultural Exports by Country
r = +0.87 · very strong · n = 180
Plot
Total BiocapacityEcological Footprint by Country
r = +0.85 · very strong · n = 122
Plot
Exports of Top Agricultural Commodity by VolumeAgricultural Exports by Country
r = +0.78 · very strong · n = 180
Plot
Renewable Internal FreshwaterFresh water by Country
r = +0.77 · very strong · n = 170
Plot
Beef ConsumptionBeef Consumption by Country
r = +0.76 · very strong · n = 166
Plot
Total Coffee ConsumptionCoffee Consumption by Country
r = +0.76 · very strong · n = 153
Plot

Opposite directions

Places that have a higher Agricultural Use tend to score lower on these

Net International Investment PositionNet International Investment Position by Country
r = −0.40 · moderate · n = 122
Plot
Global FirePower IndexMilitary Strength Index by Country
r = −0.32 · moderate · n = 137
Plot
Voting AgeVoting Age by Country
r = −0.26 · weak · n = 201
Plot
Brain Drain IndexBrain Drain Countries
r = −0.23 · weak · n = 169
Plot
Joining YearInternational Maritime Organization
r = −0.22 · weak · n = 168
Plot
Brain DrainFailed States
r = −0.22 · weak · n = 170
Plot

Quick answers

Which country has the highest Agricultural Use?: Brazil has the highest Agricultural Use in 2023, at 800.7K tons, followed by United States (429.5K tons) and Indonesia (294.9K tons).
Which country has the lowest Agricultural Use?: Tokelau has the lowest Agricultural Use in 2023, at 1 tons.
What is the median Agricultural Use across countries?: The median is 1,496 tons across the 201 countries with data in 2023.
Where does this pesticide usage by country data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Pesticides Use - FAOSTAT; Pesticide Use (Total) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States.

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