Global Use of N and P Fertilizer

Global use of fertilizer in rich and poor countries (as of 1960) in millions of tonnes as shown in data from FAO.

Fertilizer use in poor countries exceeded that in rich countries before the collapse of the Soviet Union for N, and after for P.

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