China was the leading agricultural producer worldwide in 2023, with over a trillion international U.S. dollars. India ranked second, with an agricultural production value of 522 billion international U.S. dollars. Ukraine's and Russia's production amounted to 42.66 and 110.6 billion international U.S. dollars, respectively. This makes these countries the 20th and 5th ranked agricultural producers by production value.

The average for 2023 based on 166 countries was 9.91 percent. The highest value was in Niger: 47.81 percent and the lowest value was in Singapore: 0.03 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

As of 2023, Niger registered the agricultural sector's highest contribution to the GDP in Africa, at over ** percent. Comoros and Ethiopia followed, with agriculture, forestry, and fishing accounting for approximately ** percent and ** percent of the GDP, respectively. On the other hand, Botswana, Djibouti, Libya, Zambia, and South Africa were the African countries with the lowest percentage of the GDP generated by the agricultural sector. Agriculture remains a pillar of Africa’s economy Despite the significant variations across countries, agriculture is a key sector in Africa. In 2022, it represented around ** percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP, growing by over *** percentage points compared to 2011. The agricultural industry also strongly contributes to the continent’s job market. The number of people employed in the primary sector in Africa grew from around *** million in 2011 to *** million in 2021. In proportion, agriculture employed approximately ** percent of Africa’s working population in 2021. Agricultural activities attracted a large share of the labor force in Central, East, and West Africa, which registered percentages over the regional average. On the other hand, North Africa recorded the lowest share of employment in agriculture, as the regional economy relies significantly on the industrial and service sectors. Cereals are among the most produced crops Sudan and South Africa are the African countries with the largest agricultural areas. Respectively, they devote around *** million and **** million hectares of land to growing crops. Agricultural production varies significantly across African countries in terms of products and volume. Cereals such as rice, corn, and wheat are among the main crops on the continent, also representing a staple in most countries. The leading cereal producers are Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa. Together, they recorded a cereal output of almost *** million metric tons in 2021. Additionally, rice production was concentrated in Nigeria, Egypt, Madagascar, and Tanzania.

The average for 2022 based on 188 countries was 108.5 index points. The highest value was in Senegal: 189.9 index points and the lowest value was in Malta: 53.8 index points. The indicator is available from 1961 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Exports of agricultural products from the United States of America came to ******* billion U.S. dollars in 2022. The third-largest exporter of agricultural products was the Netherlands. This is likely due to the country's role as a major European shipping hub. Brazil exported agricultural products worth, ******** U.S. dollars.

Brazil was the leading agricultural producer in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023. With *** billion international U.S. dollars. Mexico ranked second with an agricultural production value of **** billion U.S. dollars. Argentina ranked third with about ** billion U.S. dollars.

This database compiles secondary data originating from the National Statistical Offices of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The database includes information about major agricultural statistics such as structure of the agricultural sector, land use, livestock numbers, production of most important crops and livestock outputs as well as size of population at the level of provinces (oblasts). Most land use and production data are available for the three farm types, agricultural enterprises, individual farms, and households, and in aggregated form. Time coverage ranges from 1992 to 2017 (with few statistics additionally for 1991 and 2018), with some gaps in early years after independence.

The database is a product of the research project "ANICANET – Revitalising animal husbandry in Central Asia: A five-country analysis".

keywords: Agricultural production, Agrarian reform, Climate change, Animal husbandry, farm, agriculture job, agricultural population, agrarian society, rural sociology, agronomy, agrarian structure, Central Asia, climate change

European Maintenance of Materials in Agriculture Production by Country, 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

The average for 2022 based on 176 countries was 3866 kg per hectar. The highest value was in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 31621 kg per hectar and the lowest value was in Cape Verde: 12 kg per hectar. The indicator is available from 1961 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Abstract

The World Bank’s research project on “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives” has produced a core database of Nominal Rates of Assistance to producers, or NRAs, together with a set of Consumer Tax Equivalents, or CTEs, for farm products and a set of Relative Rates of Assistance to farmers in 75 focus countries. This is a detailed core database.

The vast majority of the world’s poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. In the past their earnings were often depressed by pro-urban and anti-agricultural biases of their own country’s policies. While progress has been made over the past two decades by numerous developing countries in reducing those policy biases, many trade-reducing price distortions remain intersectorally as well as within the agricultural sector of low-, middle- and high-income countries.

This project, in seeking to understand the extent, effects of and reasons behind that transformation, began by compiling new estimates of price distortions over the past half century. National country studies were undertaken in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe’s transition economies. They were supplemented with similar estimates and analytical narratives of policy trends in 20 high-income countries. Together those countries account for more than 90 percent of the value of global agricultural output.

The core database provides nominal rates of assistance estimates for the main individual commodities that together account for about 70 percent of the value of farm production in those countries, as well as guesstimates of the NRA for the 30 percent of farm production not covered. Also estimated is the NRA for non-agricultural tradables so as to compute a relative rate of assistance. Consumer tax equivalents are also provided for the covered products in each focus country, along with value of production and consumption at undistorted prices and of trade for each covered product and for non-covered farm products. The working paper no. 4612, available as external resources, serves as the "methodology paper" for this first database.

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Sudan had the largest agricultural land area in Africa in 2022, corresponding to around 112.7 million hectares. Following, South Africa and Nigeria had roughly 96.3 million and 69.8 million hectares of land under agricultural activities, respectively. In proportion to the total land area, Lesotho was the African country with the largest share of land devoted to agriculture.

As Western Europe's economies industrialized and expanded in the post-WWII years, agricultural output generally dropped in the years that immediately followed. Although this was adversely affected by the devastation of the war and often-rapid increases in urbanization, harsh winters in the late 1940s were the primary cause of poor harvests and food shortages in some areas of Europe. Only four of the 14 countries listed managed to match or exceed their pre-war agricultural output, and the countries most-devastated by the war were among those with the lowest output. For most countries, however, agricultural output rose above pre-war levels by the 1950s, due to more temperate weather and mechanization; agricultural growth, however, was at a much lower rate than industrial growth.

European Maintenance of Buildings in Agriculture Production by Country, 2023 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

The dataset contains year- and country-wise area, production and yield of different types of fruits produced by major fruit producing countries in the world

Monthly report on crop acreage, yield and production in major countries worldwide. Sources include reporting from FAS’s worldwide offices, official statistics of foreign governments, and analysis of economic data and satellite imagery.

Increasing the efficiency of agricultural production—getting more output from the same amount of resources—is critical for improving food security. To measure the efficiency of agricultural systems, we use total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is an indicator of how efficiently agricultural land, labor, capital, and materials (agricultural inputs) are used to produce a country’s crops and livestock (agricultural output)—it is calculated as the ratio of total agricultural output to total production inputs. When more output is produced from a constant amount of resources, meaning that resources are being used more efficiently, TFP increases. Measures of land and labor productivity—partial factor productivity (PFP) measures—are calculated as the ratio of total output to total agricultural area (land productivity) and to the number of economically active persons in agriculture (labor productivity). Because PFP measures are easy to estimate, they are often used to measure agricultural production performance. These measures normally show higher rates of growth than TFP, because growth in land and labor productivity can result not only from increases in TFP but also from a more intensive use of other inputs (such as fertilizer or machinery). Indicators of both TFP and PFP contribute to the understanding of agricultural systems needed for policy and investment decisions by enabling comparisons across time and across countries and regions. The data file provides estimates of IFPRI's TFP and PFP measures for developing countries for three-sub-periods between 1991 and 2014(1991-2000,2001-2010 and 2010-2014). These TFP and PFP estimates were generated using the most recent data from Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (ERS-USDA), the FAOSTAT database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and national statistical sources.

As of 2022, the share of agriculture contributing to the gross domestic product of Syria was **** percent. In comparison, the contribution of agriculture to the gross domestic product of Qatar was *** percent.

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China had the largest overall emissions from agricultural land processes in 2022, at over one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO₂e). Emissions from the farm gate, accounted for the largest share of agriculture emissions in the Asian country that year. In contrast, emissions from land use, such as from deforestation, accounted for just 8.1 percent of overall agricultural emissions in China.