South Korea's agriculture share fell from 4.8 % in 1996 to 1.5 % in 2025.
South Korea · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
128th of 182 · 20th in East Asia & Pacific
South Korea's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 10.6 % in 1996 to 5.1 % in 2025.
South Korea's resource rents rose from 0.0 % in 1992 to 0.0 % in 2021.
South Korea's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 21.7 % in 1994 to 16.1 % in 2023.
South Korea's arable land (% of land area) fell from 19.1 % in 1994 to 14.9 % in 2023.
South Korea's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +0.0 %19th of 179
- Food production indexdown −0.8 pts126th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −2.2 pts162nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.7 pts90th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productiondown −18.1 %79th of 204*
- Coal productiondown −15.8 %31st of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −19.4 %23rd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts88th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts88th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts143rd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts67th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.3 pts15th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165