Gabon's agriculture share fell from 7.1 % in 1996 to 6.8 % in 2025.
Gabon · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
61st of 182 · 37th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gabon's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 40.5 % in 1996 to 28.9 % in 2025.
Gabon's resource rents fell from 25.3 % in 1992 to 18.5 % in 2021.
Gabon's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 7.9 % in 1994 to 8.4 % in 2023.
Gabon's arable land (% of land area) rose from 1.2 % in 1994 to 1.3 % in 2023.
Gabon'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 %57th of 79
- Food production indexup +0.9 pts102nd of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.9 pts98th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.5 pts112th of 194
- Oil productionup +0.6 %34th of 50
- Gas productionup +0.3 %74th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −16.0 %120th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +5.6 pts12th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts78th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.7 pts28th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.9 pts26th of 160
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.8 pts152nd of 165
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