Mexico's agriculture share fell from 4.6 % in 1996 to 3.9 % in 2025.
Mexico · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
101st of 182 · 17th in Latin America
Mexico's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 22.0 % in 1996 to 11.4 % in 2025.
Mexico's resource rents rose from 3.4 % in 1992 to 3.6 % in 2021.
Mexico's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 54.6 % in 1994 to 50.7 % in 2023.
Mexico's arable land (% of land area) fell from 11.6 % in 1994 to 10.3 % in 2023.
Mexico's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +7.9 %56th of 179
- Food production indexup +2.9 pts53rd of 195
- Crop production indexup +3.2 pts64th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +2.7 pts52nd of 194
- Oil productiondown −6.0 %11th of 50
- Gas productiondown −7.2 %21st of 49
- Coal productiondown −0.2 %22nd of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +22.7 %86th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.2 pts33rd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.9 pts40th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts113th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts23rd of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −1.4 pts65th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.1 pts63rd of 165