New Zealand's agriculture share fell from 6.5 % in 1994 to 4.0 % in 2023.
New Zealand · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
125th of 182 · 19th in East Asia & Pacific
New Zealand's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 9.4 % in 1996 to 5.4 % in 2025.
New Zealand's resource rents fell from 2.0 % in 1992 to 1.5 % in 2021.
New Zealand's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 50.5 % in 1994 to 36.9 % in 2023.
New Zealand's arable land (% of land area) rose from 1.5 % in 1994 to 2.0 % in 2023.
New Zealand's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +7.2 %2nd of 79
- Food production indexdown −2.7 pts134th of 195
- Crop production indexup +3.3 pts80th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.5 pts146th of 194
- Oil productiondown −14.1 %60th of 204*
- Gas productionup +2.3 %51st of 204*
- Coal productiondown −3.6 %27th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −21.0 %3rd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts70th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.1 pts71st of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts56th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.4 pts2nd of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.9 pts59th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165