Suriname's agriculture share fell from 14.0 % in 1995 to 6.8 % in 2024.
Suriname · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
120th of 182 · 25th in Latin America
Suriname's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 6.1 % in 1996 to 7.0 % in 2025.
Suriname's resource rents fell from 22.9 % in 1992 to 9.6 % in 2021.
Suriname's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 0.6 % in 1994 to 0.4 % in 2023.
Suriname's arable land (% of land area) fell from 0.4 % in 1994 to 0.3 % in 2023.
Suriname's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +8.4 %62nd of 179
- Food production indexup +0.1 pts176th of 195
- Crop production indexup +0.3 pts181st of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −1.2 pts40th of 194
- Oil productionup +0.3 %72nd of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +53.8 %22nd of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +4.9 pts20th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts41st of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +2.5 pts11th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts93rd of 145
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.2 pts110th of 165