Iceland's agriculture share fell from 8.9 % in 1996 to 3.7 % in 2025.
Iceland · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
138th of 182 · 28th in Europe & C. Asia
Iceland's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 10.0 % in 1996 to 3.6 % in 2025.
Iceland's resource rents rose from 0.0 % in 1992 to 0.0 % in 2021.
Iceland's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 19.0 % in 1994 to 16.2 % in 2023.
Iceland's arable land (% of land area) fell from 1.3 % in 1994 to 1.2 % in 2023.
Iceland's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 1 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −18.1 %105th of 179
- Food production indexdown −1.7 pts123rd of 195
- Crop production indexup +15.9 pts55th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −2.2 pts130th 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 −22.8 %84th 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 −0.0 pts174th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts20th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.8 pts27th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165