Germany's agriculture share fell from 1.1 % in 1996 to 0.9 % in 2025.
Germany · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
172nd of 182 · 45th in Europe & C. Asia
Germany's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 2.9 % in 1996 to 1.1 % in 2025.
Germany's resource rents fell from 0.1 % in 1992 to 0.1 % in 2021.
Germany's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 49.6 % in 1994 to 47.5 % in 2023.
Germany's arable land (% of land area) fell from 33.8 % in 1994 to 33.4 % in 2023.
Germany's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −1.7 %18th of 179
- Food production indexdown −1.8 pts168th of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.1 pts167th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.7 pts164th of 194
- Oil productiondown −2.8 %56th of 204*
- Gas productiondown −3.8 %45th of 49
- Coal productiondown −10.1 %14th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +10.0 %67th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts96th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts134th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts72nd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.1 pts10th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165