Mali's agriculture share rose from 29.4 % in 1996 to 33.0 % in 2025.
Mali · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
11th of 182 · 10th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mali's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 59.7 % in 1996 to 63.0 % in 2025.
Mali's resource rents rose from 4.3 % in 1992 to 18.4 % in 2021.
Mali's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 28.9 % in 1994 to 35.5 % in 2023.
Mali's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.6 % in 1994 to 6.8 % in 2023.
Mali's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −5.0 %140th of 179
- Food production indexup +9.5 pts14th of 195
- Crop production indexup +6.4 pts20th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.4 pts35th 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 +11.5 %161st of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +9.0 pts6th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts32nd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −3.1 pts13th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.6 pts66th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +2.4 pts120th of 165