Eswatini's agriculture share fell from 12.0 % in 1996 to 6.4 % in 2025.
Eswatini · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
91st of 182 · 41st in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eswatini's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 16.0 % in 1996 to 14.5 % in 2025.
Eswatini's resource rents fell from 4.4 % in 1992 to 3.0 % in 2021.
Eswatini's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 71.0 % in 1994 to 69.5 % in 2023.
Eswatini's arable land (% of land area) fell from 10.3 % in 1994 to 10.3 % in 2023.
Eswatini's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −23.1 %150th of 179
- Food production indexup +1.4 pts100th of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.8 pts89th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.1 pts136th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +13.3 %58th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %98th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.4 pts24th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.5 pts18th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.8 pts114th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.6 pts127th of 165