Burundi's agriculture share fell from 53.4 % in 1996 to 34.3 % in 2025.
Burundi · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
1st of 182 · 1st in Sub-Saharan Africa
Burundi's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 92.4 % in 1996 to 85.3 % in 2025.
Burundi's resource rents fell from 14.0 % in 1992 to 14.0 % in 2021.
Burundi's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 80.7 % in 1994 to 83.9 % in 2023.
Burundi's arable land (% of land area) rose from 36.2 % in 1994 to 51.4 % in 2023.
Burundi's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.4 %68th of 79
- Food production indexdown −0.2 pts48th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −0.3 pts54th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.8 pts29th 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 −2.1 %130th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts3rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.5 pts106th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts122nd of 134
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