Eritrea's agriculture share fell from 27.4 % in 1992 to 14.1 % in 2009.
Eritrea · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 18 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
15th of 182 · 14th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eritrea's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 55.4 % in 1996 to 55.5 % in 2025.
Eritrea's resource rents rose from 0.0 % in 1992 to 27.0 % in 2011.
Eritrea's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 73.3 % in 1994 to 62.7 % in 2023.
Eritrea's arable land (% of land area) rose from 4.3 % in 1994 to 5.7 % in 2023.
Eritrea's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.0 %75th of 79
- Food production indexup +0.6 pts98th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.2 pts125th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.8 pts89th 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 consumptiondown −52.5 %183rd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts125th of 196*
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +24.6 pts1st of 212*
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts37th of 212*
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −5.3 pts6th of 167*
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