Brazil's agriculture share rose from 4.8 % in 1996 to 6.1 % in 2025.
Brazil · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
116th of 182 · 21st in Latin America
Brazil's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 14.7 % in 1996 to 7.6 % in 2025.
Brazil's resource rents rose from 2.5 % in 1992 to 7.9 % in 2021.
Brazil's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 27.4 % in 1994 to 28.3 % in 2023.
Brazil's arable land (% of land area) rose from 5.1 % in 1994 to 6.7 % in 2023.
Brazil's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −6.3 %18th of 79
- Food production indexup +1.6 pts64th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.6 pts62nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +3.6 pts77th of 194
- Oil productiondown −0.8 %8th of 50
- Gas productiondown −2.5 %29th of 49
- Coal productiondown −1.2 %23rd of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −5.2 %15th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.5 pts31st of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +3.3 pts24th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts60th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.4 pts3rd of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −4.9 pts50th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.7 pts1st of 165