Zambia's agriculture share fell from 13.3 % in 1996 to 4.1 % in 2025.
Zambia · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
17th of 182 · 16th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambia's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) fell from 74.7 % in 1996 to 54.5 % in 2025.
Zambia's resource rents rose from 5.8 % in 1992 to 35.3 % in 2021.
Zambia's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 28.9 % in 1994 to 32.1 % in 2023.
Zambia's arable land (% of land area) rose from 3.8 % in 1994 to 5.1 % in 2023.
Zambia's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −4.6 %111th of 179
- Food production indexdown −7.6 pts45th of 195
- Crop production indexdown −13.3 pts39th of 195
- Livestock production indexdown −1.0 pts92nd of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +22.1 %59th of 204*
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- Fertilizer consumptionup +19.7 %101st of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)unchanged +0.0 pts115th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +20.0 pts2nd of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −1.1 pts11th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.2 pts96th of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −0.8 pts102nd of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentup +1.0 pts160th of 165