Rwanda's agriculture share fell from 47.2 % in 1996 to 20.3 % in 2025.
Rwanda · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
45th of 182 · 29th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rwanda's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 80.9 % in 1996 to 35.1 % in 2025.
Rwanda's resource rents fell from 6.1 % in 1992 to 4.0 % in 2021.
Rwanda's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 62.8 % in 1994 to 76.3 % in 2023.
Rwanda's arable land (% of land area) rose from 28.4 % in 1994 to 47.0 % in 2023.
Rwanda's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +11.1 %52nd of 79
- Food production indexdown −0.5 pts51st of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.6 pts38th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −6.8 pts183rd 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 +7.0 %134th 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 −0.1 pts20th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.5 pts92nd of 163*
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −2.2 pts151st of 165
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