Namibia's agriculture share fell from 9.3 % in 1996 to 7.0 % in 2025.
Namibia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
77th of 182 · 39th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Namibia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 38.3 % in 1996 to 22.3 % in 2025.
Namibia's resource rents rose from 0.7 % in 1992 to 4.0 % in 2021.
Namibia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 47.1 % in 1994 to 47.1 % in 2023.
Namibia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 0.9 % in 1994 to 1.0 % in 2023.
Namibia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −7.5 %178th of 179
- Food production indexup +4.5 pts137th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −0.3 pts60th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +7.0 pts169th 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 +81.4 %138th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.1 pts31st of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts57th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts36th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.9 pts110th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.3 pts135th of 165