The present paper aims is to provide up to date information on agricultural growth over the past three decades (1980-2012) for nine of the largest agricultural producers in the Arab world. Namely are Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. The analysis employs nonparametric, output-based Malmquist technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate TFP index numbers. It uses data drawn from FAO.  In general, results throughout the period 1980-2012 show that the average annual growth rate of agricultural productivity reached 1.2%. Efficiency changes contributed by a mere 0.2% while the rest 1% was provided by technical change. The country with the highest TFP growth is Jordan, with an impressive 3.7% average annual growth in TFP. However, for Yemen and Algeria it reached about 3% each, Egypt (2%), Sudan (0.8%), Tunisia and Iraq (0.4%).