Australia's agriculture share fell from 3.4 % in 1996 to 2.3 % in 2025.
Australia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
152nd of 182 · 22nd in East Asia & Pacific
Australia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 5.4 % in 1996 to 2.2 % in 2025.
Australia's resource rents rose from 2.5 % in 1992 to 13.4 % in 2021.
Australia's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 61.1 % in 1994 to 47.2 % in 2023.
Australia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.3 % in 1994 to 4.0 % in 2023.
Australia's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 1 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.0 %42nd of 79
- Food production indexup +4.9 pts72nd of 195
- Crop production indexup +17.1 pts9th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.4 pts180th of 194
- Oil productiondown −4.5 %31st of 50
- Gas productiondown −0.4 %7th of 49
- Coal productionup +0.6 %4th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −3.6 %82nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts65th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +6.4 pts11th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts108th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts11th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.9 pts52nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165