Laos's agriculture share fell from 40.5 % in 1996 to 16.6 % in 2025.
Laos · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
6th of 182 · 1st in East Asia & Pacific
Laos's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 88.9 % in 1996 to 68.6 % in 2025.
Laos's resource rents fell from 7.1 % in 1992 to 5.4 % in 2021.
Laos's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 7.3 % in 1994 to 9.9 % in 2023.
Laos's arable land (% of land area) rose from 3.6 % in 1994 to 5.3 % in 2023.
Laos's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +2.3 %26th of 79
- Food production indexup +7.5 pts61st of 195
- Crop production indexup +9.1 pts66th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +2.0 pts6th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −0.7 %32nd of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +33.2 %99th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.7 pts27th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts44th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +1.9 pts9th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.7 pts89th of 134
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