Argentina's agriculture share fell from 5.6 % in 1996 to 5.5 % in 2025.
Argentina · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
119th of 182 · 24th in Latin America
Argentina's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 12.4 % in 1996 to 7.0 % in 2025.
Argentina's resource rents rose from 1.1 % in 1992 to 2.7 % in 2021.
Argentina's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 46.8 % in 1994 to 42.4 % in 2023.
Argentina's arable land (% of land area) rose from 9.9 % in 1994 to 14.8 % in 2023.
Argentina's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 1 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +21.6 %19th of 79
- Food production indexup +1.0 pts87th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.1 pts91st of 195
- Livestock production indexup +2.9 pts70th of 194
- Oil productionup +14.6 %17th of 50
- Gas productionup +6.1 %18th of 49
- Coal productiondown −25.6 %63rd of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −20.7 %121st of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.9 pts37th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.3 pts53rd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts103rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts87th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −2.3 pts87th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.1 pts68th of 165