Fertilizer Use Per Hectare Of Land -FAO & Federico

This dataset on fertilizer consumption rates combines two data sources. Data for all countries from 2002 onwards is sourced from the World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI), available at https://data.worldbank.org/ (accessed 13 September 2017).

Long-term data for select countries from 1880 is taken from Table 6.3 in Giovanni Federico (2008) — "Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000," Princeton University Press. The original data sources cited by the author are: 1890–1957: Germany (1880, 1910, 1920, 1940, and 1960) — Historical Statistics 1975, series K193 and J53 (assuming an average content of nutrients of 17.5%); Japan (1898–1902, 1908–12, 1918–22, 1933–37, and 1958–62) — Hayami and Yamada 1991, Table A5; Belgium (1895, 1910, 1929, and 1960–61) — Blomme 1992, Table 48. Year 1937 is referred to as 1937–38 in the original source; likewise 1957 refers to 1957–58, and 1999 to 1998–2000.

All data is measured in kilograms of nutrient per hectare of arable land.