Benin's agriculture share fell from 35.7 % in 1996 to 22.9 % in 2025.
Benin · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
39th of 182 · 26th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Benin's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 45.8 % in 1996 to 40.2 % in 2025.
Benin's resource rents fell from 9.0 % in 1992 to 2.3 % in 2021.
Benin's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 21.2 % in 1994 to 41.8 % in 2023.
Benin's arable land (% of land area) rose from 15.1 % in 1994 to 31.4 % in 2023.
Benin's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +20.4 %63rd of 79
- Food production indexup +4.5 pts32nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −1.5 pts27th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +10.2 pts20th 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 −10.0 %132nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts31st of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −5.3 pts1st of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +2.3 pts118th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.0 pts125th of 165