Lesotho's agriculture share fell from 7.7 % in 1996 to 6.5 % in 2025.
Lesotho · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
55th of 182 · 34th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lesotho's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 35.9 % in 1996 to 30.9 % in 2025.
Lesotho's resource rents rose from 3.1 % in 1992 to 4.3 % in 2021.
Lesotho's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 76.7 % in 1994 to 77.8 % in 2023.
Lesotho's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.7 % in 1994 to 11.8 % in 2023.
Lesotho's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +10.3 %167th of 179
- Food production indexdown −3.5 pts151st of 195
- Crop production indexdown −11.5 pts87th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.2 pts163rd 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 +6.1 %159th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts18th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −1.4 pts16th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +2.5 pts115th of 134
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