Somalia's agriculture share fell from 64.2 % in 1961 to 55.8 % in 1990.
Somalia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
58th of 182 · 35th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Somalia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 47.3 % in 1996 to 30.0 % in 2025.
Somalia's resource rents rose from 4.7 % in 1970 to 11.2 % in 2021.
Somalia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 70.2 % in 1994 to 70.3 % in 2023.
Somalia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 1.6 % in 1994 to 1.8 % in 2023.
Somalia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +27.1 %175th of 179
- Food production indexdown −0.9 pts148th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.3 pts123rd of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −1.0 pts149th 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 consumptiondown −90.4 %190th of 193
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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 −0.2 pts4th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −1.2 pts83rd of 103*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity139th of 146
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +0.4 pts164th of 165