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Topic 13 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Nauru: Food & Agriculture
What does a country grow, and what does it take to grow it?
Nauru is placed 110th of 184 countries on food & agriculture in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) 2.33 (2024); Agriculture Orientation Index 0.51 (2024).
Share
Food & Agriculture
110th
of 184 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
- 2.33Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy), 2024Current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators
- —Cereal Yield, 2023No reading for this country
- —Dietary Energy Supply, 2024No reading for this country
- 0.51Agriculture Orientation Index, 2024Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size)
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Nauru on food & agriculture — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Why it is a key: How productive and how sustainable a country's farming is at once — output, inputs, water, emissions and farm work scored together, which is what it takes to grow food rather than how much is grown.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
2.33
Current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators
Higher is better
Nauru: 2.33. Across the 186 countries in this edition, values run from 1.67 (Tuvalu) to 4.57 (Italy); the world median is 3.14.
- World median
- 3.14
- Best in Micronesia
- 2.33 Kiribati and Nauru
Each grey tick is one of 186 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 2 of 4
Cereal Yield
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Why it is a key: How much food a hectare of land produces: the clearest single measure of how productively a country farms.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY 4.0
No reading
Cereal yield (kg per hectare)
Higher is better
FAO publishes no 2023 figure for Nauru, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 179 countries in this edition, values run from 23 (Cabo Verde) to 29,147 (Oman); the world median is 3,072.
- World median
- 3,072
- Best in Micronesia
- 1,713 Micronesia
Each grey tick is one of 179 countries in the 2023 edition.
Key 3 of 4
Dietary Energy Supply
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Why it is a key: Whether the food a country produces and imports covers what its population needs to eat, measured before anyone has eaten it.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
No reading
Dietary energy supply (kcal per person per day)
Higher is better
FAO publishes no 2024 figure for Nauru, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 155 countries in this edition, values run from 1,757 (Somalia) to 3,962 (United States); the world median is 2,982.
- World median
- 2,982
- Best in Micronesia
- 3,141 Kiribati
Each grey tick is one of 155 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 4 of 4
Agriculture Orientation Index
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Why it is a key: How much public spending agriculture attracts set against the share of the economy it produces — whether a state invests in its farms or lives off them.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
0.51
Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size)
Higher is better
Nauru: 0.51. Across the 132 countries in this edition, values run from 0.03 (Ghana) to 5.38 (Singapore); the world median is 0.305.
- World median
- 0.305
- Best in Micronesia
- 0.51 Nauru
Each grey tick is one of 132 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Nauru is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)
Current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators · higher is better
NauruWorld median
Nauru was at 2.33 in both 2015 and 2024; the world median went from 3.14 to 3.14.
Every year’s figures
Year Nauru World median 2024 2 3.1 2023 2 3.1 2022 2 3.2 2021 2 3.1 2020 2 3.1 2019 2 3.1 2018 2 3.2 2017 2 3.1 2016 2 3.1 2015 2 3.1 Agriculture Orientation Index
Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size) · higher is better
NauruWorld median
Nauru fell from 0.57 in 2013 to 0.51 in 2024; the world median went from 0.285 to 0.305.
Every year’s figures
Year Nauru World median 2024 0.51 0.305 2023 0.64 0.305 2022 0.69 0.290 2021 0.46 0.260 2020 0.43 0.255 2019 0.52 0.265 2018 0.65 0.270 2017 0.69 0.260 2016 0.60 0.285 2015 0.60 0.305 2014 0.77 0.300 2013 0.57 0.285 2012 — 0.330 2011 — 0.290 2010 — 0.320 2009 — 0.370 2008 — 0.390 2007 — 0.410 2006 — 0.355 2005 — 0.325 2004 — 0.320 2003 — 0.320 2002 — 0.340 2001 — 0.360
03In context
Nauru beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 184 countries on food & agriculture, never a place within the region.
Nauru and Micronesia
Nauru has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. The standing is each country’s place among all 184 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)Current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators | Cereal YieldCereal yield (kg per hectare) | Dietary Energy SupplyDietary energy supply (kcal per person per day) | Agriculture Orientation IndexAgriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nauru | 110th | 2.33 | — | — | 0.51 |
 Kiribati | 126th | 2.33 | — | 3,141 | — |
 Micronesia | 171st | 2 | 1,713 | — | — |
 Guam | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Marshall Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Northern Mariana Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Palau | not placed | — | — | — | — |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Micronesia
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 184.
Placed either side on food & agriculture
The countries immediately above and below Nauru in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Nauru is ahead of the world, and behind
15 more statistics filed under food & agriculture, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median2
Statistics on which Nauru does better than the middle country measured.
Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and TubersFAO · 2022 · world median 412541▼ Worsened since 2020
Nauru: 25 · world median 41 · Share of dietary energy supply from cereals, roots and tubers (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 21 to 82; lower is better.
Fruit Supply per PersonFAO · 2023 · world median 84.8393.8884.83▲ Improved since 2019
Nauru: 93.88 · world median 84.83 · Fruit available as food, excluding wine (kg per person per year). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 4.27 to 379.63; higher is better.
Behind the world median5
Statistics on which Nauru does worse than the middle country measured.
Crop Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 106.23102.69106.23▼ Worsened since 2012
Nauru: 102.69 · world median 106.23 · Crop production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 53.79 to 189.93; higher is better.
Position 114th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Agricultural Emissions IntensityFAO · 2023 · world median 1.5651.831.565▼ Worsened since 2013
Nauru: 1.83 · world median 1.565 · Greenhouse gases from farming per value of agricultural output (kg CO₂eq per international dollar). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 28.2; lower is better.
Position 77th of 190 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Food Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 106.0899.71106.08▼ Worsened since 2012
Nauru: 99.71 · world median 106.08 · Food production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 71.08 to 177.49; higher is better.
Position 144th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Vegetable Supply per PersonFAO · 2023 · world median 102.6940.19102.69▼ Worsened since 2019
Nauru: 40.19 · world median 102.69 · Vegetables available as food (kg per person per year). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 6.89 to 412.72; higher is better.
Livestock Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 107.0689.43107.06▼ Worsened since 2012
Nauru: 89.43 · world median 107.06 · Livestock production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 35.52 to 190.08; higher is better.
Position 174th of 194 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end8
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Meat Supply per PersonFAO · 2023 · world median 57.83109.4157.83Moved since 2019
Nauru: 109.41 · world median 57.83 · Meat available as food (kg per person per year, carcass weight). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 3.49 to 156.95.
Pesticide Use per HectareFAO · 2024 · world median 1.7318.821.73Moved since 2014
Nauru: 18.82 · world median 1.73 · Pesticide use (kg per hectare of cropland). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 37.72.
Position 14th of 178 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Livestock DensityFAO · 2023 · world median 0.5351.640.535No real change since 2013
Nauru: 1.64 · world median 0.535 · Livestock units per hectare of agricultural land. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.02 to 43.97.
Position 30th of 188 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Fish and Seafood Supply per PersonFAO · 2023 · world median 16.1726.0616.17Moved since 2019
Nauru: 26.06 · world median 16.17 · Fish and seafood available as food (kg per person per year, live-weight equivalent). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.38 to 83.81.
Fisheries and Aquaculture ProductionFAO · 2024 · world median 52,37587,34852,375Moved since 2014
Nauru: 87,348 · world median 52,375 · Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic animals caught or farmed, tonnes (live weight). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 70,500,841.
Agricultural LandFAO · 2023 · world median 37.962037.96No real change since 2013
Nauru: 20 · world median 37.96 · Agricultural land (% of land area). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.445 to 86.48.
Position 149th of 209 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Agricultural EmissionsFAO · 2023 · world median 8,6351.5218,635No real change since 2013
Nauru: 1.521 · world median 8,635 · Farm-gate emissions (kt CO₂eq). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 1,044,508.
Position 190th of 193 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Cropland Nitrogen BalanceFAO · 2023 · world median 37.63-42.2537.63No real change since 2013
Nauru: -42.25 · world median 37.63 · Nitrogen surplus (+) or deficit (−) on cropland, kg per hectare. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from -555.52 to 1,199.
No current reading for Nauru
Agricultural Irrigated Land, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker, Arable Land per Person, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Cereal Yield, Dietary Energy Supply, Employment in Agriculture, Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, Global Report on Food Crises, Land Under Cereal Production (last 2020), Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, Organic Agricultural Area, Per Capita Food Supply Variability, Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity (last 2022), Prevalence of Undernourishment, Water Withdrawal by Sector and Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Food & Agriculture among Nauru’s 9 topics
Food & Agriculture is Nauru’s 4th best-placed topic of 9. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Risk & Resilience43rd of 1933/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge66th of 1984/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties81st of 1982/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture110th of 1842/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeing126th of 2003/4 keys
- Energy105th of 1652/3 keys
- Development & Human Capital125th of 1963/3 keys
- Governance & Institutions147th of 1942/4 keys
- Digital & Technology171st of 1983/4 keys
No standing on Economy & Innovation, Work & Labour, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Peace & Security, Mobility & Trade, Poverty & Inequality: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on food & agriculture
The three countries placed highest of 184, and the leaders Nauru can most readily be measured against.
1
SerbiaSouthern Europe
1st of 184 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Lošmi derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
AustriaWestern Europe
2nd of 184 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0, greyscale
3
MaltaSouthern Europe
3rd of 184 · 3 of 4 keys
Photo: Dirk Heldmaier derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Oceania
Australia54th4/4 keysHighest in Micronesia
Nauru110th2/4 keys
Positions out of 184 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Nauru on food & agriculture: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Nauru rank on food & agriculture?
Nauru is placed 110th of 184 countries on Food & Agriculture in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) and Agriculture Orientation Index). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) figure for Nauru?
2.33 in 2024 (current status score, from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), averaged over up to seven sub-indicators), according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The world median in the same edition was 3.14.
What is the latest Agriculture Orientation Index figure for Nauru?
0.51 in 2024 (agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size)), according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The world median in the same edition was 0.305.
How have Nauru’s food & agriculture figures changed?
Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) was 2.33 in both 2015 and 2024; Agriculture Orientation Index fell from 0.57 in 2013 to 0.51 in 2024.
Which food & agriculture statistics are missing for Nauru?
No current reading is published for Nauru on Agricultural Irrigated Land, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker, Arable Land per Person, Cereal Import Dependency Ratio, Cereal Yield, Dietary Energy Supply, Employment in Agriculture, Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare, Global Report on Food Crises, Land Under Cereal Production, Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land, Organic Agricultural Area, Per Capita Food Supply Variability, Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity, Prevalence of Undernourishment, Water Withdrawal by Sector and Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Keep reading
Explore further
Nauru, topic by topic
Nearby, on food & agriculture
The key statistics, for every country
09Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
This subject is about production and land use, not about whether people are fed. Hunger, undernourishment and what a population actually eats are measured under Health & Wellbeing, and the two regularly disagree — a country can grow a great deal and still leave many people short, and one that grows little can be well fed by trade. The wider environmental cost of farming — emissions, water withdrawal, forest cover — is filed under Environment & Sustainability.
How the Food & Agriculture standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 4 indicators on this topic are keys and 31 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2023 to 2024, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 4 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 184 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 4.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy) — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
- Cereal Yield — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
- Dietary Energy Supply — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
- Agriculture Orientation Index — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
The other 15 statistics on this page come from 1 publisher, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Nauru’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Nauru (banner) — Hadi Zaher, CC BY 2.0
- Serbia — Lošmi derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Austria — chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Malta — Dirk Heldmaier derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Nauru: Food & Agriculture — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/nauru/food