South Africa's agriculture share fell from 3.4 % in 1996 to 2.8 % in 2025.
South Africa · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
126th of 182 · 44th in Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 9.2 % in 1996 to 5.4 % in 2025.
South Africa's resource rents rose from 4.5 % in 1992 to 7.3 % in 2021.
South Africa's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 80.2 % in 1994 to 79.4 % in 2023.
South Africa's arable land (% of land area) fell from 11.1 % in 1994 to 9.9 % in 2023.
South Africa's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −20.0 %21st of 79
- Food production indexdown −1.0 pts69th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −1.0 pts34th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −1.0 pts118th of 194
- Oil productiondown −37.0 %82nd of 204*
- Gas productiondown −11.7 %68th of 204*
- Coal productionup +0.6 %7th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −15.6 %102nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.2 pts53rd of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.4 pts28th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts66th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.1 pts8th of 24
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.7 pts67th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts111th of 165