Zimbabwe's agriculture share fell from 19.3 % in 1996 to 9.5 % in 2025.
Zimbabwe · Agriculture & natural resources
Land, production, employment and resource rents.
20 indicators · 20 with data
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
% of employment
18th of 182 · 17th in Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe's employment in agriculture (% of total employment) rose from 47.0 % in 1996 to 54.3 % in 2025.
Zimbabwe's resource rents fell from 10.8 % in 1992 to 6.4 % in 2021.
Zimbabwe's agricultural land (% of land area) rose from 35.5 % in 1994 to 41.8 % in 2023.
Zimbabwe's arable land (% of land area) rose from 8.2 % in 1994 to 10.4 % in 2023.
Zimbabwe's arable land (hectares per person) fell from 0 ha in 1994 to 0 ha in 2023.
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- Cereal yielddown −22.3 %170th of 179
- Food production indexup +1.2 pts42nd of 195
- Crop production indexdown −6.5 pts36th of 195
- Livestock production indexup +3.6 pts54th of 194
- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionup +16.2 %20th of 34
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- Fertilizer consumptiondown −14.8 %140th of 191
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- Oil rents (% of GDP)up +0.0 pts79th of 190
- Mineral rents (% of GDP)up +2.0 pts25th of 197
- Forest rents (% of GDP)down −0.4 pts39th of 197
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- Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)down −0.3 pts61st of 130
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- Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecuritydown −1.9 pts121st of 134
- Prevalence of undernourishmentdown −1.7 pts137th of 165