Afghanistan's agriculture share fell from 38.6 % in 2002 to 34.3 % in 2024.
Afghanistan · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Afghanistan's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 64.5 % in 1996 to 51.6 % in 2025.
Afghanistan's resource rents fell from 1.2 % in 1972 to 0.4 % in 2021.
Afghanistan's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 58.0 % in 1994 to 58.4 % in 2023.
Afghanistan's arable land (% of land area) rose from 11.8 % in 1994 to 12.0 % in 2023.
Afghanistan's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +2.4 %45th of 79
- Food production indexdown −2.9 pts79th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −4.3 pts44th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.7 pts157th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionup +13.1 %78th of 204*
- Coal productionup +24.4 %41st of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +30.2 %168th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts93rd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts75th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +4.3 pts4th of 168*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.1 pts128th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.8 pts154th of 165