Latvia's agriculture share fell from 6.9 % in 1996 to 4.0 % in 2025.
Latvia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
121st of 182 · 18th in Europe & C. Asia
Latvia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 17.5 % in 1996 to 6.7 % in 2025.
Latvia's resource rents fell from 2.4 % in 1995 to 1.2 % in 2021.
Latvia's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 40.8 % in 1994 to 31.7 % in 2023.
Latvia's arable land (% of land area) fell from 27.5 % in 1994 to 21.9 % in 2023.
Latvia's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 1 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −15.0 %77th of 179
- Food production indexup +2.6 pts111th of 195
- Crop production indexup +4.7 pts104th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.5 pts126th 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 −7.0 %85th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts76th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts52nd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −1.1 pts1st of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +1.0 pts45th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165