Kenya's agriculture share fell from 27.5 % in 1996 to 23.2 % in 2025.
Kenya · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
27th of 182 · 21st in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 60.8 % in 1996 to 45.8 % in 2025.
Kenya's resource rents fell from 5.4 % in 1992 to 1.2 % in 2021.
Kenya's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 47.9 % in 1994 to 49.5 % in 2023.
Kenya's arable land (% of land area) rose from 9.6 % in 1994 to 11.4 % in 2023.
Kenya's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +19.0 %133rd of 179
- Food production indexdown −10.9 pts71st of 195
- Crop production indexdown −16.9 pts56th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.2 pts115th 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 consumptionup +51.8 %119th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts85th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts47th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.4 pts4th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.1 pts125th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.5 pts159th of 165