Senegal's agriculture share fell from 18.3 % in 1996 to 17.1 % in 2025.
Senegal · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
59th of 182 · 36th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Senegal's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 50.8 % in 1996 to 29.6 % in 2025.
Senegal's resource rents rose from 1.8 % in 1992 to 4.4 % in 2021.
Senegal's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 46.3 % in 1994 to 49.4 % in 2023.
Senegal's arable land (% of land area) rose from 16.5 % in 1994 to 19.9 % in 2023.
Senegal's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +13.5 %113th of 179
- Food production indexdown −2.4 pts1st of 195
- Crop production indexdown −8.1 pts1st of 195
- Livestock production indexup +11.6 pts18th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productiondown −3.1 %85th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −54.1 %164th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +1.6 pts32nd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts43rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.3 pts66th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.3 pts78th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts80th of 165