plate 319 · 2025 data

Nigeria is now Brazil's biggest supplier of urea fertiliser

Share of Brazil's urea imports by value, by supplying country, 2025 vs 2017, as reported by Brazil.

Africa's century
  1. 1. By 2100, more than 1 in 3 people will be African
  2. 2. Nearly half the world's under-25s will be African by 2100
  3. 3. DR Congo is projected to outgrow the US by 2100
  4. 4. Kinshasa will soon be bigger than Paris and London combined
  5. 5. Two-thirds of the world's mobile money moves in Africa
  6. 6. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
  7. 7. Africa's solar imports more than doubled since early 2024
  8. 8. DR Congo mines three-quarters of the world's cobalt
  9. 9. Most people in Africa are still offline
  10. 10. Africa formally recycles less than 1% of its e-waste
  11. 11. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
  12. 12. Nigeria's cities now hold more people than Japan's
  13. 13. Sudan now has the world's most people displaced at home
  14. 14. Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil
  15. 15. Six of the ten fastest-growing big cities are African
  16. 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
  17. 17. Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa
  18. 18. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
  19. 19. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
  20. 20. More sub-Saharan Africans now have mobile money than bank accounts
  21. 21. Sub-Saharan Africa's cities now hold more people than Latin America's
  22. 22. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
  23. 23. Nitrogen dioxide over Khartoum fell 39% after war began
  24. 24. Countries mostly without electricity fell from 33 to 15
  25. 25. Seven in ten West African mobile money accounts sit idle
  26. 26. Nigeria became the third-biggest sender of students abroad
  27. 27. Guinea overtook Australia as the world's biggest bauxite miner
  28. 28. DR Congo passed Chile in refined copper
  29. 29. Burkina Faso now sends half its exports to the UAE
  30. 30. Nouakchott's mobile internet sped from Africa's slowest to top 30
  31. 31. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
  32. 32. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
  33. 33. Services now employ twice as many Ghanaian women as farms
  34. 34. Sub-Saharan Africa doubled its grain, mostly by farming more land
  35. 35. Sub-Saharan Africa added more rural people than the whole world
  36. 36. France fell from first to third among Côte d'Ivoire's suppliers
  37. 37. China's car sales to Ethiopia are now mostly electric
  38. 38. Guinea rose from 17th to second for investment in Africa
  39. 39. Africa now mines three-quarters of the world's manganese
  40. 40. Tanzania rose from no graphite to world's third-biggest miner
  41. 41. DR Congo has more babies each year than the EU
  42. 42. More Malawians go online than have electricity at home
  43. 43. Nigeria is now Brazil's biggest supplier of urea fertiliser
22.9%

Nigeria's share of Brazil's urea imports by value in 2025, up from 7.8% in 2017; in 2015 it was not among the top ten.

13.1%

Qatar's share in 2025, down from 31.3% in 2017 and 50.9% in 2015: Brazil's old first supplier is now fourth.

31.7%

Nigeria and Algeria together supplied almost a third of Brazil's urea in 2025, up from 13.6% in 2017: Brazil's farms now lean on African fertiliser.

Source: UN Comtrade, Brazil's reported imports of urea (HS 310210) by partner, 2025
the numbers & method
Nigeria is now Brazil's biggest supplier of urea fertiliser. Source: UN Comtrade, Brazil's reported imports of urea (HS 310210) by partner, 2025.
Share of urea imports (%)2017 (grey bar) (%)
Nigeria22.97.8
Russia17.414.0
Oman15.06.9
Qatar13.131.3
Algeria8.85.8
Venezuela5.14.2

Claim types Fact · Interpretation

UN Comtrade, imports of urea (HS 310210) as reported by Brazil, US$ (CIF), calendar years, read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (loaded from comtradeplus.un.org; vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11; source passes value checks). Shares are of Brazil's total urea imports from the world, progrss calculation. Values are trade values, not tonnes: shares by value can differ slightly from shares by weight. Partners are the country of origin as Brazil records it. US$ million, 2017 vs 2025 (total 1,333.4 vs 3,272.4): Nigeria 103.6 vs 750.3; Russia 186.3 vs 568.0; Oman 91.7 vs 489.2; Qatar 417.3 vs 427.2; Algeria 77.6 vs 288.7; Venezuela 55.8 vs 165.3. In 2017 Nigeria ranked fourth (after Qatar, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, 8.4%); in 2015 and 2016 it was not among Brazil's ten largest suppliers (the tenth held 1.8% and 2.9%), and Qatar held 50.9% in 2015. Nigeria first passed every other supplier in 2024 (19.4% vs Russia 18.6%) and led more clearly in 2025 (22.9% vs 17.4%). Bolivia (3.8%) is seventh in 2025, not drawn. Brazil's import bill swings with world urea prices (US$4.8bn in 2022), so the chart shows shares, not amounts. By weight Nigeria also led in 2025 (1.80 Mt vs Russia 1.29 Mt, Comtrade net weight). The last clause of takeaway 3 is an interpretation.

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