Denmark's agriculture share fell from 2.8 % in 1996 to 1.2 % in 2025.
Denmark · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
161st of 182 · 44th in Europe & C. Asia
Denmark's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 3.9 % in 1996 to 1.6 % in 2025.
Denmark's resource rents rose from 0.3 % in 1992 to 0.3 % in 2021.
Denmark's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 67.3 % in 1994 to 65.5 % in 2023.
Denmark's arable land (% of land area) was 59.1 % in 1994 and 59.1 % in 2023.
Denmark's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +7.5 %11th of 79
- Food production indexup +0.9 pts112th of 195
- Crop production indexup +10.7 pts92nd of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −4.1 pts124th of 194
- Oil productionup +1.2 %44th of 50
- Gas productionup +36.3 %49th of 49
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −6.0 %74th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts64th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts147th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.3 pts13th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.2 pts22nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165