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View our work on COVID-19 vaccinationsWorld population with and without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers
Estimates of the global population reliant on synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, produced via the Haber-Bosch process for food production. Best estimates project that
just over half of the global population could be sustained without reactive nitrogen fertilizer derived from the Haber-Bosch process.
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2015
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- Cereal yield vs. fertilizer use
- Eutrophying emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Eutrophying emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Eutrophying emissions per kilogram of food product
- Excess phosphorous from croplands
- Excess phosphorous per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer Price Index
- Fertilizer application rates over the long-run
- Fertilizer production by nutrient type
- Fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Fertilizer use vs. GDP per capita
- Nitrogen fertilizer consumption
- Nitrogen fertilizer production
- Nitrogen fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Nitrogen inputs per hectare of cropland
- Pesticide breakdown by type
- Pesticide use
- Pesticide use per hectare of cropland
- Phosphate and potash price indexes over the long-term
- Phosphate fertilizer consumption
- Phosphate fertilizer production
- Phosphate fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Potash fertilizer consumption
- Potash fertilizer production
- Potash fertilizer use per hectare of cropland
- Total fertilizer production by nutrient
- Total nitrogen inputs to crops
- Urea nutrient prices per metric ton
- Which countries are overapplying nitrogen without gains in crop yields?
- World population supported by synthetic nitrogen fertilizers