Ireland's agriculture share fell from 4.7 % in 1996 to 1.1 % in 2025.
Ireland · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
136th of 182 · 26th in Europe & C. Asia
Ireland's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 11.2 % in 1996 to 3.9 % in 2025.
Ireland's resource rents fell from 0.1 % in 1992 to 0.1 % in 2021.
Ireland's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 63.8 % in 1994 to 60.8 % in 2023.
Ireland's arable land (% of land area) rose from 5.8 % in 1994 to 6.4 % in 2023.
Ireland's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +3.7 %5th of 79
- Food production indexup +2.3 pts44th of 195
- Crop production indexup +4.3 pts132nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +2.0 pts41st of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionup +2224.9 %57th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −15.2 %5th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts106th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts76th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts150th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts108th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.6 pts13th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165