Liberia's agriculture share fell from 76.1 % in 2000 to 32.7 % in 2025.
Liberia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
38th of 182 · 25th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Liberia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 60.8 % in 1996 to 41.1 % in 2025.
Liberia's resource rents rose from 17.8 % in 2000 to 21.9 % in 2021.
Liberia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 12.3 % in 1994 to 20.0 % in 2023.
Liberia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 3.6 % in 1994 to 5.2 % in 2023.
Liberia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −4.7 %156th of 179
- Food production indexup +2.5 pts120th of 195
- Crop production indexup +3.8 pts63rd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.8 pts113th 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 consumptionunchanged +0.0 %155th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +5.4 pts20th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −1.0 pts2nd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −9.5 pts1st of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.2 pts128th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −1.5 pts158th of 165