Guinea-Bissau's agriculture share fell from 54.2 % in 1996 to 40.6 % in 2025.
Guinea-Bissau · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
12th of 182 · 11th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Guinea-Bissau's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 68.0 % in 1996 to 61.1 % in 2025.
Guinea-Bissau's resource rents fell from 19.8 % in 1992 to 10.4 % in 2021.
Guinea-Bissau's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 21.8 % in 1994 to 29.9 % in 2023.
Guinea-Bissau's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.0 % in 1994 to 14.1 % in 2023.
Guinea-Bissau's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −5.2 %65th of 79
- Food production indexup +1.3 pts40th of 195
- Crop production indexup +1.4 pts29th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.8 pts132nd 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 consumptiondown −1.9 %153rd 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 −0.7 pts5th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +19.3 pts4th of 172*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.1 pts128th of 145
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.1 pts146th of 165