Switzerland's agriculture share fell from 1.2 % in 1996 to 0.6 % in 2025.
Switzerland · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
151st of 182 · 38th in Europe & C. Asia
Switzerland's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 4.6 % in 1996 to 2.2 % in 2025.
Switzerland's resource rents fell from 0.0 % in 1992 to 0.0 % in 2021.
Switzerland's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 40.1 % in 1994 to 37.8 % in 2023.
Switzerland's arable land (% of land area) fell from 10.6 % in 1994 to 10.0 % in 2023.
Switzerland's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −6.2 %32nd of 179
- Food production indexup +3.0 pts157th of 195
- Crop production indexup +16.8 pts142nd of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.9 pts153rd 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 consumptionup +7.6 %58th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts110th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts152nd of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.0 pts117th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.5 pts4th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165