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

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).

Global rank#142out of 182 countries
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Historical trend

4.74.33.93.53.1199120082025Jordan · 2025: 3.12%Jordan

Analytical takeaways

  • Jordan records 3.12% for Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in 2025, ranking #142 globally out of 182 countries.
  • Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) declined from 4.71% in 1991 to 3.12% in 2025, a decrease of 1.60%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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