Papua New Guinea's agriculture share fell from 32.4 % in 1994 to 17.0 % in 2024.
Papua New Guinea · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
41st of 182 · 7th in East Asia & Pacific
Papua New Guinea's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 26.7 % in 1996 to 36.9 % in 2025.
Papua New Guinea's resource rents rose from 21.1 % in 1992 to 27.4 % in 2021.
Papua New Guinea's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 2.2 % in 1994 to 3.1 % in 2023.
Papua New Guinea's arable land (% of land area) rose from 0.4 % in 1994 to 0.7 % in 2023.
Papua New Guinea's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −0.8 %48th of 179
- Food production indexup +0.5 pts136th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.3 pts134th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.5 pts96th of 194
- Oil productionup +6.7 %52nd of 204*
- Gas productionup +12.2 %41st of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −14.1 %70th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.2 pts34th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +11.4 pts8th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.3 pts35th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.3 pts39th of 160
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts120th of 136*
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.1 pts155th of 165