El Salvador's agriculture share fell from 10.9 % in 1996 to 4.4 % in 2025.
El Salvador · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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El Salvador's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 27.5 % in 1996 to 13.9 % in 2025.
El Salvador's resource rents fell from 0.8 % in 1992 to 0.5 % in 2021.
El Salvador's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 62.5 % in 1994 to 57.7 % in 2023.
El Salvador's arable land (% of land area) rose from 28.2 % in 1994 to 34.8 % in 2023.
El Salvador's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +1.5 %40th of 79
- Food production indexup +0.3 pts119th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −2.5 pts102nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +4.2 pts148th 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 +90.5 %104th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts113th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts68th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.1 pts71st of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −1.4 pts103rd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.1 pts94th of 165