Uruguay's agriculture share fell from 8.0 % in 1996 to 6.4 % in 2025.
Uruguay · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
115th of 182 · 20th in Latin America
Uruguay's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 12.4 % in 1996 to 8.1 % in 2025.
Uruguay's resource rents rose from 0.5 % in 1992 to 1.9 % in 2021.
Uruguay's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 85.3 % in 1994 to 81.4 % in 2023.
Uruguay's arable land (% of land area) rose from 7.4 % in 1994 to 12.6 % in 2023.
Uruguay's arable land (hectares per person) rose from 0 ha in 1994 to 1 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +10.1 %17th of 79
- Food production indexdown −2.7 pts154th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −11.5 pts182nd of 195
- Livestock production indexup +3.6 pts86th 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 −2.0 %48th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts101st of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts80th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.4 pts37th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts2nd of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityup +0.5 pts57th of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 165