Madagascar's agriculture share fell from 33.4 % in 1996 to 21.7 % in 2025.
Madagascar · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
5th of 182 · 5th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Madagascar's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 78.8 % in 1996 to 69.2 % in 2025.
Madagascar's resource rents fell from 5.7 % in 1992 to 5.5 % in 2021.
Madagascar's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 62.7 % in 1994 to 70.3 % in 2023.
Madagascar's arable land (% of land area) rose from 5.0 % in 1994 to 5.2 % in 2023.
Madagascar's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −18.5 %106th of 179
- Food production indexup +2.0 pts101st of 195
- Crop production indexup +2.4 pts81st of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.0 pts161st 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 +5.9 %166th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts71st of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts13th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.4 pts43rd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +4.0 pts123rd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.4 pts163rd of 165