Sudan's agriculture share fell from 42.4 % in 1996 to 29.4 % in 2025.
Sudan · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
42nd of 186 · 29th in Sub-Saharan Africa*
Sudan's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 50.5 % in 1993 to 39.8 % in 2022.
Sudan's resource rents rose from 0.0 % in 1992 to 12.8 % in 2021.
Sudan's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 59.7 % in 2012 to 60.3 % in 2023.
Sudan's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.6 % in 2012 to 11.2 % in 2023.
Sudan's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 1 ha in 2012 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +27.6 %77th of 79
- Food production indexup +5.7 pts55th of 195
- Crop production indexup +9.6 pts30th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +1.1 pts102nd of 194
- Oil productiondown −34.3 %47th of 50
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +0.0 %167th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.4 pts27th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.6 pts18th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.6 pts26th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +1.7 pts25th of 172*
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.1 pts115th of 167
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