Egypt's agriculture share rose from 16.1 % in 1996 to 16.6 % in 2025.
Egypt · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Egypt's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 32.2 % in 1996 to 17.5 % in 2025.
Egypt's resource rents fell from 12.1 % in 1992 to 5.1 % in 2021.
Egypt's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 3.0 % in 1994 to 4.1 % in 2023.
Egypt's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.6 % in 1994 to 3.1 % in 2023.
Egypt's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +4.5 %13th of 179
- Food production indexdown −0.1 pts88th of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.1 pts103rd of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.5 pts56th of 194
- Oil productionup +4.8 %24th of 50
- Gas productiondown −16.8 %15th of 49
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %8th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.1 pts28th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts112th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts51st of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.0 pts79th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.6 pts109th of 165