Sri Lanka's agriculture share fell from 22.5 % in 1996 to 8.4 % in 2025.
Sri Lanka · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Sri Lanka's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 32.1 % in 1996 to 25.9 % in 2025.
Sri Lanka's resource rents fell from 0.5 % in 1992 to 0.1 % in 2021.
Sri Lanka's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 37.0 % in 1994 to 48.6 % in 2023.
Sri Lanka's arable land (% of land area) rose from 14.1 % in 1994 to 22.2 % in 2023.
Sri Lanka's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +25.4 %68th of 179
- Food production indexdown −20.0 pts146th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −21.3 pts150th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −3.7 pts38th 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 consumptionunchanged +0.0 %57th 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 −0.0 pts117th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.5 pts30th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.2 pts45th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.3 pts102nd of 165