Sweden's agriculture share fell from 2.3 % in 1996 to 1.5 % in 2025.
Sweden · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
159th of 182 · 42nd in Europe & C. Asia
Sweden's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 3.3 % in 1996 to 1.8 % in 2025.
Sweden's resource rents rose from 0.3 % in 1992 to 1.2 % in 2021.
Sweden's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 8.2 % in 1994 to 7.3 % in 2023.
Sweden's arable land (% of land area) fell from 6.8 % in 1994 to 6.2 % in 2023.
Sweden's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −27.0 %52nd of 179
- Food production indexup +4.7 pts127th of 195
- Crop production indexup +11.3 pts112th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +0.1 pts140th 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 consumptiondown −8.9 %88th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts89th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.8 pts46th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts94th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts24th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.9 pts22nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165