Chile's agriculture share fell from 5.0 % in 1996 to 3.5 % in 2025.
Chile · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
123rd of 182 · 26th in Latin America
Chile's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 13.4 % in 1996 to 6.1 % in 2025.
Chile's resource rents rose from 4.6 % in 1992 to 16.9 % in 2021.
Chile's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 20.8 % in 1994 to 14.4 % in 2023.
Chile's arable land (% of land area) fell from 3.1 % in 1994 to 1.9 % in 2023.
Chile's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +3.5 %8th of 79
- Food production indexdown −1.4 pts107th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −0.8 pts97th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −2.3 pts116th of 194
- Oil productiondown −26.1 %80th of 204*
- Gas productionup +19.7 %64th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −19.9 %36th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +13.3 %25th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts97th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +11.6 pts5th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts65th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.6 pts4th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.6 pts64th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165