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Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Name: Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, labor-jobs-occupational-safety, employment, agriculture, total, modeled, estimate

Compare employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ilo estimate) across 181 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

21.9%

Median: 14.5%

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Burundi

85.3%

Lowest

Singapore

0.1%

Top 5 Countries

1Burundi85.3%

2Mozambique73.0%

3Niger73.0%

4Chad71.7%

5Madagascar69.2%

By Region

Africa31.8%(9 countries)

Other29.1%(103 countries)

Asia16.6%(25 countries)

South America14.1%(7 countries)

North America10.8%(4 countries)

Key Findings

•181 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Burundi has the highest published value (85.3411 %).
•Singapore has the lowest published value (0.0954027 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.1%)High (85.3%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 21.9%)

Africa (9)

Other (103)

Asia (25)

South America (7)

North America (4)

Europe (31)

Oceania (2)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The agriculture sector consists of activities in agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing, in accordance with division 1 (ISIC 2) or categories A-B (ISIC 3) or category A (ISIC 4).

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Burundi	85.3%
2	Mozambique	73.0%
3	Niger	73.0%
4	Chad	71.7%
5	Madagascar	69.2%
6	Lao People's Democratic Republic	68.6%
7	Central African Republic	66.1%
8	Malawi	65.0%
9	Uganda	64.9%
10	United Republic of Tanzania	64.6%
11	Mali	63.0%
12	Guinea-Bissau	61.1%
13	Ethiopia	60.1%
14	Democratic Republic of the Congo	58.5%
15	Eritrea	55.5%
16	Equatorial Guinea	55.3%
17	Zambia	54.5%
18	Zimbabwe	54.3%
19	North Korea	54.1%
20	Angola	51.9%
21	Burkina Faso	51.8%
22	Afghanistan	51.6%
23	Moldova, Republic of	50.5%
24	Guinea	47.4%
25	Haiti	46.6%
26	Timor-Leste	46.0%
27	Kenya	45.8%
28	Cote d'Ivoire	45.4%
29	Myanmar	45.0%
30	Vanuatu	44.5%
31	Sierra Leone	44.5%
32	Bangladesh	44.3%
33	Tajikistan	43.3%
34	Solomon Islands	42.5%
35	Bhutan	42.4%
36	Cameroon	41.9%
37	India	41.6%
38	Liberia	41.1%
39	Benin	40.2%
40	Togo	37.6%
41	Papua New Guinea	36.9%
42	Republic of the Congo	36.4%
43	Pakistan	36.2%
44	Fiji	35.6%
45	Rwanda	35.1%
46	Ghana	34.6%
47	Azerbaijan	34.2%
48	Georgia	34.0%
49	Comoros	33.6%
50	Nigeria	33.5%
51	Cambodia	33.4%
52	Ecuador	32.5%
53	Mauritania	32.1%
54	Yemen	31.6%
55	Lesotho	30.9%
56	Albania	30.8%
57	Nicaragua	30.5%
58	Somalia	30.0%
59	Senegal	29.6%
60	Guatemala	29.1%
61	Gabon	28.9%
62	Thailand	28.6%
63	Morocco	27.9%
64	Republic of The Gambia	27.6%
65	Indonesia	27.3%
66	Mongolia	27.0%
67	Armenia	27.0%
68	Samoa	26.9%
69	Sri Lanka	25.9%
70	Uzbekistan	25.2%
71	Vietnam	25.0%
72	Bolivia	24.7%
73	Tonga	23.6%
74	Peru	23.1%
75	Nepal	22.9%
76	Honduras	22.4%
77	Namibia	22.3%
78	Turkmenistan	21.9%
79	People's Republic of China	21.7%
80	Philippines	20.5%
81	Botswana	18.0%
82	Serbia	18.0%
83	Egypt	17.5%
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.7%
85	Syrian Arab Republic	16.3%
86	Belize	16.1%
87	Panama	16.0%
88	Paraguay	16.0%
89	Cuba	15.5%
90	Kyrgyzstan	15.4%
91	Eswatini	14.5%
92	Türkiye	14.2%
93	Colombia	14.2%
94	Jamaica	13.9%
95	El Salvador	13.9%
96	Islamic Republic of Iran	13.6%
97	Tunisia	12.5%
98	Guyana	12.2%
99	Sao Tome and Principe	12.1%
100	Costa Rica	11.5%
101	Mexico	11.4%
102	Kazakhstan	11.3%
103	Maldives	11.3%
104	Romania	10.9%
105	Greece	10.7%
106	Libya	10.0%
107	Algeria	9.5%
108	Belarus	9.5%
109	Cape Verde	9.2%
110	Malaysia	9.2%
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.1%
112	Venezuela	8.9%
113	The Republic of North Macedonia	8.5%
114	Iraq	8.2%
115	Uruguay	8.1%
116	Brazil	7.6%
117	Saint Lucia	7.5%
118	Dominican Republic	7.0%
119	Argentina	7.0%
120	Suriname	7.0%
121	Latvia	6.7%
122	Poland	6.2%
123	Chile	6.1%
124	Oman	5.9%
125	New Zealand	5.4%
126	South Africa	5.4%
127	Russian Federation	5.1%
128	South Korea	5.1%
129	Mauritius	4.7%
130	Bulgaria	4.7%
131	Lithuania	4.7%
132	Trinidad and Tobago	4.5%
133	Croatia	4.3%
134	Montenegro	4.2%
135	Hungary	4.1%
136	Ireland	3.9%
137	Slovenia	3.7%
138	Iceland	3.6%
139	Finland	3.5%
140	Spain	3.4%
141	Italy	3.3%
142	Jordan	3.1%
143	Estonia	3.0%
144	Japan	2.8%
145	Portugal	2.8%
146	Austria	2.8%
147	Czech Republic	2.7%
148	Norway	2.5%
149	Saudi Arabia	2.5%
150	France	2.3%
151	Switzerland	2.2%
152	Australia	2.2%
153	Slovakia	2.2%
154	Cyprus	2.2%
155	French Polynesia	1.9%
156	Kuwait	1.9%
157	New Caledonia	1.8%
158	Sweden	1.8%
159	Netherlands	1.7%
160	Denmark	1.6%
161	Qatar	1.6%
162	Virgin Islands, U.S.	1.6%
163	Guam	1.6%
164	United States of America	1.5%
165	United Arab Emirates	1.4%
166	Barbados	1.2%
167	Brunei Darussalam	1.2%
168	Djibouti	1.2%
169	Puerto Rico	1.1%
170	Canada	1.1%
171	Germany	1.1%
172	Belgium	1.0%
173	Luxembourg	0.9%
174	Malta	0.9%
175	United Kingdom	0.9%
176	Bahrain	0.8%
177	Bahamas	0.8%
178	Israel	0.8%
179	Macao	0.4%
180	Hong Kong	0.2%
181	Singapore	0.1%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #labor-jobs-occupational-safety #employment #agriculture #total #modeled #estimate

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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