Ethiopia's agriculture share fell from 49.9 % in 1996 to 32.8 % in 2025.
Ethiopia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
13th of 182 · 12th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 76.2 % in 1996 to 60.1 % in 2025.
Ethiopia's resource rents fell from 15.1 % in 1992 to 5.9 % in 2021.
Ethiopia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 30.5 % in 1994 to 34.1 % in 2023.
Ethiopia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 9.9 % in 1994 to 14.5 % in 2023.
Ethiopia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
Latest values — expand for the charts.
- Cereal yielddown −0.9 %43rd of 79
- Food production indexup +2.6 pts56th of 195
- Crop production indexup +2.2 pts59th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +3.5 pts66th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
Latest values — expand for the charts.
- Fertilizer consumptionup +19.9 %125th of 191
Latest values — expand for the charts.
- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts60th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts12th of 197
Latest values — expand for the charts.
- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +1.0 pts12th of 160
Latest values — expand for the charts.
- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +2.4 pts117th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.5 pts137th of 165