DR Congo's agriculture share fell from 33.3 % in 1996 to 8.9 % in 2025.
DR Congo · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
14th of 182 · 13th in Sub-Saharan Africa
DR Congo's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 63.9 % in 1996 to 58.5 % in 2025.
DR Congo's resource rents rose from 15.8 % in 1992 to 38.8 % in 2021.
DR Congo's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 11.5 % in 1994 to 15.5 % in 2023.
DR Congo's arable land (% of land area) rose from 3.0 % in 1994 to 6.6 % in 2023.
DR Congo's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +1.0 %71st of 79
- Food production indexup +4.8 pts38th of 195
- Crop production indexup +5.1 pts35th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −1.5 pts103rd of 194
- Oil productionup +0.3 %69th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +19.2 %65th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +35.3 %181st of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.3 pts47th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +23.2 pts1st of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.6 pts7th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts124th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.3 pts130th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.2 pts161st of 165