Nepal's agriculture share fell from 38.9 % in 1996 to 21.6 % in 2025.
Nepal · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Nepal's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 35.2 % in 1996 to 22.9 % in 2025.
Nepal's resource rents fell from 1.9 % in 1992 to 0.5 % in 2021.
Nepal's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 29.2 % in 1994 to 26.1 % in 2023.
Nepal's arable land (% of land area) fell from 16.3 % in 1994 to 12.6 % in 2023.
Nepal's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +3.9 %86th of 179
- Food production indexup +3.5 pts37th of 195
- Crop production indexup +3.8 pts58th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +2.3 pts17th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +10.0 %64th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %108th 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)down −0.0 pts69th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.6 pts59th of 163*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.4 pts90th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.1 pts84th of 165