What we count
The mass of active ingredients in herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other products used on agricultural land.
Pesticide active ingredients used this year
How much pesticide active ingredient global agriculture uses in a year.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
54,544,134,646farm animals slaughtered this year
48,734,064,547chickens slaughtered this year
926,972,650pigs slaughtered this year
What lies behind this number
The mass of active ingredients in herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other products used on agricultural land.
How the source derives it
The source compiles the global figure from national agricultural, food and production statistics under common definitions.
What one number cannot show
Mass alone does not express toxicity, dosage or risk; substances work at very different concentrations.
Source value
The calculation uses the latest published annual value from FAOSTAT Pesticides Use 2023 for 2023.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time since the start of the year.
Annual value3,730,000tonnes of active ingredients
- Period
- 2023
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- FAOSTAT Pesticides Use 2023
How the number is calculated
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value3,730,0002023 · tonnes of active ingredients
Average per day10,212even time-based calculation
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
FAOSTAT Pesticides Use 2023 reports the latest published figure used on this page for 2023.
Calculation method
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from FAOSTAT Pesticides Use 2023 and refers to 2023. It is the latest figure published by this source. The source compiles the global figure from national agricultural, food and production statistics under common definitions.
Latest published and verified source value
- Publisher
- FAOSTAT Pesticides Use 2023
- Data period
- 2023
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation