Venezuela's agriculture share fell from 5.7 % in 1982 to 0.0 % in 2011.
Venezuela · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 19 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
112th of 182 · 19th in Latin America
Venezuela's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 13.9 % in 1996 to 8.9 % in 2025.
Venezuela's resource rents fell from 16.3 % in 1985 to 11.8 % in 2014.
Venezuela's agricultural land (% of land area) fell from 24.5 % in 1994 to 24.4 % in 2023.
Venezuela's arable land (% of land area) rose from 2.9 % in 1994 to 2.9 % in 2023.
Venezuela's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yieldup +15.7 %61st of 179
- Food production indexup +1.2 pts173rd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −3.2 pts160th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +4.2 pts182nd of 194
- Oil productionup +14.5 %20th of 50
- Gas productionup +6.9 %23rd of 49
- Coal productionup +9.4 %32nd of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptionunchanged +0.0 %117th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)down −5.5 pts20th of 197*
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)down −0.1 pts76th of 212*
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.0 pts133rd of 212*
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)up +0.0 pts155th of 169*
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- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −1.4 pts89th of 165
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