Tanzania's agriculture share fell from 30.3 % in 1996 to 22.9 % in 2025.
Tanzania · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
10th of 182 · 9th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 73.9 % in 1996 to 64.6 % in 2025.
Tanzania's resource rents fell from 11.4 % in 1992 to 6.7 % in 2021.
Tanzania's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 36.9 % in 1994 to 44.6 % in 2023.
Tanzania's arable land (% of land area) rose from 10.0 % in 1994 to 15.2 % in 2023.
Tanzania's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +8.0 %122nd of 179
- Food production indexdown −3.0 pts85th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −4.3 pts126th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +8.5 pts15th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionup +36.6 %61st of 204*
- Coal productionup +7.4 %55th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +1.9 %144th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.8 pts26th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts30th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.6 pts32nd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.2 pts112th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −1.2 pts141st of 165