Barbados's agriculture share fell from 3.2 % in 1995 to 1.6 % in 2024.
Barbados · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
167th of 182 · 29th in Latin America
Barbados's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 4.8 % in 1996 to 1.2 % in 2025.
Barbados's resource rents rose from 0.3 % in 1992 to 0.3 % in 2021.
Barbados's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 44.2 % in 1994 to 23.3 % in 2023.
Barbados's arable land (% of land area) fell from 37.2 % in 1994 to 16.3 % in 2023.
Barbados's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.1 %41st of 79
- Food production indexup +13.2 pts118th of 195
- Crop production indexup +17.7 pts79th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +11.7 pts134th of 194
- Oil productionup +0.3 %91st of 204*
- Gas productiondown −3.1 %91st of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −32.2 %133rd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts57th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts149th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts120th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts85th of 145
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.2 pts76th of 165