Ghana's agriculture share fell from 39.0 % in 1996 to 21.3 % in 2025.
Ghana · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
46th of 182 · 30th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 67.8 % in 1996 to 34.6 % in 2025.
Ghana's resource rents rose from 7.6 % in 1992 to 13.3 % in 2021.
Ghana's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 56.7 % in 1994 to 55.4 % in 2023.
Ghana's arable land (% of land area) rose from 12.3 % in 1994 to 20.7 % in 2023.
Ghana's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +10.4 %97th of 179
- Food production indexup +5.0 pts16th of 195
- Crop production indexup +5.3 pts15th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +3.1 pts57th of 194
- Oil productiondown −3.6 %42nd of 204*
- Gas productiondown −11.1 %70th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −22.0 %135th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.8 pts25th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.9 pts22nd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts21st of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts71st of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +2.1 pts101st of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.4 pts92nd of 165