Mauritius's agriculture share fell from 8.9 % in 1996 to 4.6 % in 2025.
Mauritius · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
129th of 182 · 45th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mauritius's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 17.3 % in 1996 to 4.7 % in 2025.
Mauritius's resource rents fell from 0.0 % in 1992 to 0.0 % in 2021.
Mauritius's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 52.0 % in 1994 to 43.0 % in 2023.
Mauritius's arable land (% of land area) fell from 45.8 % in 1994 to 37.6 % in 2023.
Mauritius's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +25.9 %6th of 179
- Food production indexup +0.8 pts182nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −6.3 pts191st of 195
- Livestock production indexup +16.0 pts55th 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 consumptiondown −20.0 %83rd 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)up +0.0 pts163rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts80th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.1 pts80th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.8 pts105th of 165