Dominican Republic's agriculture share fell from 9.2 % in 1996 to 4.6 % in 2025.
Dominican Republic · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
118th of 182 · 23rd in Latin America
Dominican Republic's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 16.5 % in 1996 to 7.0 % in 2025.
Dominican Republic's resource rents rose from 0.8 % in 1992 to 2.1 % in 2021.
Dominican Republic's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 53.4 % in 1994 to 55.4 % in 2023.
Dominican Republic's arable land (% of land area) rose from 19.5 % in 1994 to 20.2 % in 2023.
Dominican Republic's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +1.8 %22nd of 79
- Food production indexup +12.9 pts28th of 195
- Crop production indexup +17.2 pts16th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +4.5 pts80th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +3.5 %94th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.8 pts36th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts133rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts91st of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −2.3 pts100th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.8 pts69th of 165