Malaysia's agriculture share fell from 11.7 % in 1996 to 8.2 % in 2025.
Malaysia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
110th of 182 · 18th in East Asia & Pacific
Malaysia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 16.1 % in 1996 to 9.2 % in 2025.
Malaysia's resource rents fell from 20.2 % in 1992 to 6.9 % in 2021.
Malaysia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 21.3 % in 1994 to 26.1 % in 2023.
Malaysia's arable land (% of land area) fell from 2.8 % in 1994 to 2.4 % in 2023.
Malaysia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −1.5 %79th of 179
- Food production indexunchanged +0.0 pts115th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.2 pts140th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.7 pts142nd of 194
- Oil productiondown −3.9 %30th of 50
- Gas productionup +3.0 %11th of 49
- Coal productiondown −7.6 %35th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +81.5 %1st of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.2 pts35th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.2 pts40th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts14th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts58th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165