Vanuatu's agriculture share rose from 15.4 % in 1995 to 26.6 % in 2024.
Vanuatu · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
30th of 182 · 5th in East Asia & Pacific
Vanuatu's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 55.3 % in 1996 to 44.5 % in 2025.
Vanuatu's resource rents fell from 0.8 % in 1992 to 0.6 % in 2021.
Vanuatu's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 13.1 % in 1994 to 15.3 % in 2023.
Vanuatu's arable land (% of land area) was 1.6 % in 1994 and 1.6 % in 2023.
Vanuatu's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +0.6 %76th of 79
- Food production indexdown −1.1 pts186th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −0.0 pts177th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −6.3 pts191st 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 consumptionunchanged +0.0 %100th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts90th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts67th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +1.1 pts54th of 168*
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurityunchanged +0.0 pts70th of 144*
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −0.8 pts101st of 165