Niger's agriculture share rose from 32.3 % in 1996 to 47.6 % in 2025.
Niger · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
3rd of 182 · 3rd in Sub-Saharan Africa
Niger's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 75.7 % in 1996 to 73.0 % in 2025.
Niger's resource rents rose from 4.2 % in 1992 to 6.4 % in 2021.
Niger's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 27.6 % in 1994 to 36.8 % in 2023.
Niger's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.3 % in 1994 to 14.0 % in 2023.
Niger's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 1 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +18.1 %78th of 79
- Food production indexup +25.3 pts18th of 195
- Crop production indexup +34.4 pts14th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.9 pts67th of 194
- Oil productiondown −6.9 %77th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +13.4 %56th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +65.1 %185th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts48th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.6 pts48th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts14th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts111th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.6 pts106th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.2 pts121st of 165