Cabo Verde's agriculture share fell from 12.4 % in 1996 to 5.0 % in 2025.
Cabo Verde · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
109th of 182 · 43rd in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cabo Verde's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 23.0 % in 1996 to 9.2 % in 2025.
Cabo Verde's resource rents fell from 45.7 % in 1992 to 17.7 % in 2021.
Cabo Verde's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 17.1 % in 1994 to 19.6 % in 2023.
Cabo Verde's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.2 % in 1994 to 12.4 % in 2023.
Cabo Verde's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +75.2 %79th of 79
- Food production indexdown −1.1 pts192nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −4.4 pts192nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +4.0 pts178th 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 +12.7 %178th 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)down −0.0 pts71st of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)unchanged +0.0 pts159th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −2.2 pts81st of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.7 pts124th of 165