Burkina Faso's agriculture share fell from 36.4 % in 1996 to 19.9 % in 2025.
Burkina Faso · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
21st of 182 · 19th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Burkina Faso's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 79.8 % in 1996 to 51.8 % in 2025.
Burkina Faso's resource rents rose from 6.4 % in 1992 to 20.1 % in 2021.
Burkina Faso's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 38.2 % in 1994 to 53.4 % in 2023.
Burkina Faso's arable land (% of land area) rose from 16.0 % in 1994 to 28.9 % in 2023.
Burkina Faso's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −1.9 %67th of 79
- Food production indexup +9.6 pts49th of 195
- Crop production indexup +11.5 pts41st of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.4 pts154th 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 consumptionup +34.0 %146th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +11.1 pts7th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts15th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.3 pts10th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.7 pts96th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.8 pts123rd of 165