Mongolia's agriculture share fell from 38.5 % in 1996 to 8.9 % in 2025.
Mongolia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
66th of 182 · 12th in East Asia & Pacific
Mongolia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 52.1 % in 1996 to 27.0 % in 2025.
Mongolia's resource rents rose from 7.2 % in 1992 to 33.1 % in 2021.
Mongolia's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 76.6 % in 1994 to 69.0 % in 2023.
Mongolia's arable land (% of land area) fell from 0.9 % in 1994 to 0.7 % in 2023.
Mongolia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 1 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +16.4 %149th of 179
- Food production indexup +30.9 pts5th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −15.3 pts40th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +34.6 pts9th of 194
- Oil productionup +1.4 %64th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +28.0 %8th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −0.7 %123rd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.9 pts38th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +18.3 pts3rd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts96th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −1.1 pts36th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.1 pts13th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165