Botswana's agriculture share fell from 3.7 % in 1996 to 1.8 % in 2025.
Botswana · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
81st of 182 · 40th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Botswana's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 11.2 % in 1996 to 18.0 % in 2025.
Botswana's resource rents fell from 2.0 % in 1992 to 1.0 % in 2021.
Botswana's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 45.9 % in 1994 to 45.6 % in 2023.
Botswana's arable land (% of land area) fell from 0.7 % in 1994 to 0.5 % in 2023.
Botswana's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +3.5 %70th of 79
- Food production indexdown −1.4 pts161st of 195
- Crop production indexdown −9.3 pts13th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.2 pts173rd of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −10.1 %38th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +28.0 %90th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts61st of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts80th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts147th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −1.5 pts107th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.5 pts149th of 165