Guyana's agriculture share fell from 37.8 % in 1996 to 7.7 % in 2025.
Guyana · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Guyana's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 32.3 % in 1996 to 12.2 % in 2025.
Guyana's resource rents rose from 25.5 % in 1992 to 33.7 % in 2021.
Guyana's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 3.6 % in 1994 to 3.4 % in 2023.
Guyana's arable land (% of land area) fell from 0.5 % in 1994 to 0.5 % in 2023.
Guyana's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +1.5 %28th of 179
- Food production indexup +8.8 pts77th of 195
- Crop production indexup +8.0 pts101st of 195
- Livestock production indexup +14.2 pts10th of 194
- Oil productionup +57.9 %25th of 50
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +8.9 %35th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +14.7 pts7th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +6.7 pts13th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −1.6 pts33rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts24th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts72nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165