Belize's agriculture share fell from 12.0 % in 1995 to 7.9 % in 2024.
Belize · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Belize's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 28.7 % in 1996 to 16.1 % in 2025.
Belize's resource rents rose from 0.5 % in 1992 to 0.5 % in 2021.
Belize's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 6.3 % in 1994 to 8.0 % in 2023.
Belize's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.6 % in 1994 to 4.4 % in 2023.
Belize's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −13.8 %67th of 179
- Food production indexup +0.7 pts122nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −1.5 pts137th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +9.3 pts62nd of 194
- Oil productionup +0.2 %88th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +167.4 %16th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts62nd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts88th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts15th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +3.2 pts106th of 146
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.2 pts99th of 165