Jamaica's agriculture share rose from 8.0 % in 1996 to 8.7 % in 2025.
Jamaica · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Jamaica's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 23.9 % in 1996 to 13.9 % in 2025.
Jamaica's resource rents fell from 8.7 % in 1992 to 0.5 % in 2021.
Jamaica's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 46.2 % in 1994 to 38.5 % in 2023.
Jamaica's arable land (% of land area) fell from 14.9 % in 1994 to 11.1 % in 2023.
Jamaica's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −1.9 %154th of 179
- Food production indexup +7.6 pts68th of 195
- Crop production indexup +7.2 pts70th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +8.0 pts68th 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 −0.2 %112th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts59th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts100th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts138th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.3 pts111th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.2 pts103rd of 165