Gambia's agriculture share rose from 17.9 % in 1996 to 23.8 % in 2025.
Gambia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
64th of 182 · 38th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gambia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 32.6 % in 1996 to 27.6 % in 2025.
Gambia's resource rents rose from 2.3 % in 1992 to 2.9 % in 2021.
Gambia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 55.0 % in 1994 to 62.6 % in 2023.
Gambia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 17.8 % in 1994 to 43.5 % in 2023.
Gambia's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.5 %169th of 179
- Food production indexup +5.3 pts195th of 195
- Crop production indexup +7.8 pts189th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.1 pts193rd 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 +596.4 %150th 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 −0.2 pts25th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.7 pts53rd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −4.2 pts109th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −1.5 pts133rd of 165