China's agriculture share fell from 19.2 % in 1996 to 6.7 % in 2025.
China · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
79th of 182 · 16th in East Asia & Pacific
China's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 50.5 % in 1996 to 21.7 % in 2025.
China's resource rents fell from 5.3 % in 1992 to 1.7 % in 2021.
China's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 55.7 % in 1994 to 55.4 % in 2023.
China's arable land (% of land area) fell from 12.9 % in 1994 to 11.5 % in 2023.
China's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +0.6 %20th of 179
- Food production indexup +1.9 pts75th of 195
- Crop production indexup +2.1 pts68th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.4 pts87th of 194
- Oil productionup +1.8 %7th of 50
- Gas productionup +6.0 %4th of 49
- Coal productionup +1.2 %1st of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −0.3 %11th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts58th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.3 pts55th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts121st of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts103rd of 130
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165
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