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World production and consumption of normal superphosphate (NSP) have been
fluctuating around a level of 6 million metric tons of P2O5.
A moderate downward trend since the late 1990s is projected to continue during
the forecast period to 2010. NSP, the lowest-analysis major phosphate fertilizer
material and crudest with regard to its physical properties, lost its No. 1
ranking to ammonium phosphates during the middle of the 20th century. Normal
superphosphate accounts for about 20% of world phosphate fertilizer consumption,
second to ammonium phosphate, which accounts for about 65%, but ahead of triple
superphosphate, which accounts for less than 10%. A marginal decline in NSP
consumption in the developed countries has been more than offset by continued,
but only marginal, growth in the developing world, which accounts for 85% of
consumption.
World capacity and production increased marginally between 1993 and 2005,
despite a 5% decline since 1998. Socialist Asia accounts for almost 60% of
world capacity and production, followed by Central/South America and Oceania.
Capacity has increased significantly in Central/South America and Socialist
Asia. Large declines occurred in Central/Eastern Europe and the former USSR.
The outlook for world capacity for normal superphosphate during the forecast
period is flat.
The following pie chart shows world consumption of normal superphosphate:
Socialist Asia is the largest normal superphosphate–consuming region,
followed by Central/South America and Oceania. World consumption increased
by 15% between 1993 and 2005 despite a 5% decline between 1998 and 2005. This
overall increase was the result of strong overall growth in Central/South America
and Socialist Asia, and some recovery of markets in Europe.
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