Chad's agriculture share fell from 37.5 % in 1996 to 36.3 % in 2025.
Chad · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
4th of 182 · 4th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chad's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 82.3 % in 1996 to 71.7 % in 2025.
Chad's resource rents rose from 7.2 % in 1992 to 21.3 % in 2021.
Chad's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 38.5 % in 1994 to 40.0 % in 2023.
Chad's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.7 % in 1994 to 4.2 % in 2023.
Chad's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +0.9 %72nd of 79
- Food production indexup +7.4 pts21st of 195
- Crop production indexup +2.9 pts106th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +9.4 pts16th of 194
- Oil productiondown −4.1 %37th of 50
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %169th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +7.5 pts10th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts16th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.1 pts1st of 119*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.7 pts119th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.5 pts157th of 165