For 2025, Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) is led by Burundi at 85.34%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.
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).
| Rank | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burundi | 85.34% |
| 2 | Mozambique | 73.01% |
| 3 | Niger | 72.99% |
| 4 | Chad | 71.74% |
| 5 | Madagascar | 69.21% |
| 6 | Lao PDR | 68.60% |
| 7 | Central African Republic | 66.06% |
| 8 | Malawi | 64.98% |
| 9 | Uganda | 64.85% |
| 10 | Tanzania | 64.57% |
| 11 | Mali | 63.01% |
| 12 | Guinea-Bissau | 61.07% |
| 13 | Ethiopia | 60.14% |
| 14 | Congo, Dem. Rep. | 58.52% |
| 15 | Eritrea | 55.48% |
| 16 | Equatorial Guinea | 55.32% |
| 17 | Zambia | 54.53% |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 54.31% |
| 19 | Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | 54.08% |
| 20 | Angola | 51.95% |
| 21 | Burkina Faso | 51.78% |
| 22 | Afghanistan | 51.63% |
| 23 | Moldova | 50.50% |
| 24 | Guinea | 47.36% |
| 25 | Haiti | 46.61% |
| 26 | Timor-Leste | 46.02% |
| 27 | Kenya | 45.79% |
| 28 | Cote d'Ivoire | 45.37% |
| 29 | Myanmar | 44.95% |
| 30 | Vanuatu | 44.53% |
| 31 | Sierra Leone | 44.49% |
| 32 | Bangladesh | 44.26% |
| 33 | Tajikistan | 43.27% |
| 34 | Solomon Islands | 42.47% |
| 35 | Bhutan | 42.37% |
| 36 | Cameroon | 41.85% |
| 37 | India | 41.63% |
| 38 | Liberia | 41.12% |
| 39 | Benin | 40.24% |
| 40 | Togo | 37.59% |
| 41 | Papua New Guinea | 36.86% |
| 42 | Congo, Rep. | 36.35% |
| 43 | Pakistan | 36.23% |
| 44 | Fiji | 35.64% |
| 45 | Rwanda | 35.05% |
| 46 | Ghana | 34.57% |
| 47 | Azerbaijan | 34.23% |
| 48 | Georgia | 33.95% |
| 49 | Comoros | 33.56% |
| 50 | Nigeria | 33.53% |