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Sri Lanka
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#69out of 182 countries
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Historical trend

40.536.732.929.125.3199120082025Sri Lanka · 2025: 25.86%Sri Lanka

Analytical takeaways

  • Sri Lanka records 25.86% for Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in 2025, ranking #69 globally out of 182 countries.
  • Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) declined from 39.00% in 1991 to 25.86% in 2025, a decrease of 13.14%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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