Bulgaria's agriculture share fell from 9.6 % in 1996 to 2.5 % in 2025.
Bulgaria · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
130th of 182 · 21st in Europe & C. Asia
Bulgaria's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 12.5 % in 1996 to 4.7 % in 2025.
Bulgaria's resource rents fell from 1.4 % in 1992 to 0.9 % in 2021.
Bulgaria's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 55.7 % in 1994 to 46.1 % in 2023.
Bulgaria's arable land (% of land area) fell from 36.2 % in 1994 to 32.1 % in 2023.
Bulgaria's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +1.4 %42nd of 179
- Food production indexdown −8.8 pts132nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −10.7 pts115th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −2.1 pts176th of 194
- Oil productionup +0.3 %89th of 204*
- Gas productiondown −10.9 %82nd of 204*
- Coal productiondown −28.5 %24th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +0.4 %68th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts92nd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts52nd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts97th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts73rd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −3.2 pts47th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165