Cameroon's agriculture share fell from 18.3 % in 1996 to 16.8 % in 2025.
Cameroon · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
36th of 182 · 24th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cameroon's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 65.3 % in 1996 to 41.9 % in 2025.
Cameroon's resource rents fell from 7.8 % in 1992 to 5.5 % in 2021.
Cameroon's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 19.4 % in 1994 to 20.9 % in 2023.
Cameroon's arable land (% of land area) rose from 12.6 % in 1994 to 13.1 % in 2023.
Cameroon's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldunchanged +0.0 %53rd of 79
- Food production indexup +3.4 pts91st of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.8 pts77th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +4.7 pts82nd of 194
- Oil productiondown −5.9 %43rd of 204*
- Gas productionup +5.9 %69th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +29.2 %149th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.1 pts32nd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts29th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.9 pts4th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.9 pts116th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.3 pts78th of 165