Syria's agriculture share rose from 29.0 % in 1993 to 42.9 % in 2022.
Syria · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Syria's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 28.1 % in 1996 to 16.3 % in 2025.
Syria's resource rents fell from 9.3 % in 1991 to 6.4 % in 2020.
Syria's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 75.0 % in 1994 to 74.1 % in 2023.
Syria's arable land (% of land area) fell from 26.2 % in 1994 to 24.0 % in 2023.
Syria's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −11.5 %56th of 79
- Food production indexdown −3.6 pts159th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −4.2 pts146th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −0.5 pts147th of 194
- Oil productiondown −12.9 %49th of 50
- Gas productionup +4.8 %48th of 49
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +169.8 %148th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +1.5 pts20th of 195
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts89th of 204
- Forest rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts136th of 204
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.3 pts78th of 171*
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +3.1 pts162nd of 165
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