Belgium's agriculture share fell from 1.3 % in 1996 to 0.7 % in 2025.
Belgium · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
173rd of 182 · 46th in Europe & C. Asia
Belgium's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 2.7 % in 1996 to 1.0 % in 2025.
Belgium's resource rents rose from 0.0 % in 1992 to 0.0 % in 2021.
Belgium's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 45.8 % in 2000 to 44.4 % in 2023.
Belgium's arable land (% of land area) fell from 28.4 % in 2000 to 28.3 % in 2023.
Belgium's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 2000 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −1.4 %9th of 179
- Food production indexdown −2.8 pts143rd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −2.2 pts148th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.2 pts123rd of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −3.3 %42nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts86th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts145th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.1 pts48th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.8 pts30th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165