Iran's agriculture share rose from 10.3 % in 1996 to 10.6 % in 2025.
Iran · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Iran's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 21.1 % in 1996 to 13.6 % in 2025.
Iran's resource rents rose from 24.0 % in 1990 to 30.4 % in 2021.
Iran's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 39.4 % in 1994 to 29.0 % in 2023.
Iran's arable land (% of land area) fell from 10.6 % in 1994 to 9.7 % in 2023.
Iran's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +4.4 %107th of 179
- Food production indexdown −5.7 pts183rd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −6.9 pts184th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −2.5 pts139th of 194
- Oil productionup +11.0 %5th of 50
- Gas productionup +1.2 %3rd of 49
- Coal productionup +4.6 %40th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %106th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +5.0 pts9th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +1.9 pts30th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts154th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts127th of 163*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −1.1 pts92nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.1 pts95th of 165