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

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).

Countries ranked 182
Snapshot year 2025
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0.021.342.764.085.3BurundiBurundi: 85.34%85.3MozambiqueMozambique: 73.01%73.0NigerNiger: 72.99%73.0ChadChad: 71.74%71.7MadagascarMadagascar: 69.21%69.2Lao PDRLao PDR: 68.60%68.6Central African RepublicCentral African Republic: 66.06%66.1MalawiMalawi: 64.98%65.0UgandaUganda: 64.85%64.9TanzaniaTanzania: 64.57%64.6MaliMali: 63.01%63.0Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau: 61.07%61.1
Rank Country Value
51 Cambodia 33.40%
52 Ecuador 32.48%
53 Mauritania 32.12%
54 Yemen, Rep. 31.62%
55 Lesotho 30.88%
56 Albania 30.77%
57 Nicaragua 30.47%
58 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 30.03%
59 Senegal 29.58%
60 Guatemala 29.05%
61 Gabon 28.87%
62 Thailand 28.56%
63 Morocco 27.89%
64 Gambia, The 27.55%
65 Indonesia 27.30%
66 Mongolia 27.00%
67 Armenia 26.97%
68 Samoa 26.88%
69 Sri Lanka 25.86%
70 Uzbekistan 25.20%
71 Viet Nam 25.04%
72 Bolivia 24.71%
73 Tonga 23.61%
74 Peru 23.13%
75 Nepal 22.91%
76 Honduras 22.42%
77 Namibia 22.34%
78 Turkmenistan 21.93%
79 China 21.68%
80 Philippines 20.49%
81 Botswana 18.03%
82 Serbia 18.03%
83 Egypt, Arab Rep. 17.52%
84 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16.71%
85 Syrian Arab Republic 16.30%
86 Belize 16.13%
87 Panama 16.04%
88 Paraguay 15.97%
89 Cuba 15.53%
90 Kyrgyz Republic 15.45%
91 Eswatini 14.55%
92 Turkiye 14.22%
93 Colombia 14.16%
94 Jamaica 13.94%
95 El Salvador 13.85%
96 Iran, Islamic Rep. 13.62%
97 Tunisia 12.46%
98 Guyana 12.21%
99 Sao Tome and Principe 12.06%
100 Costa Rica 11.49%
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Analytical takeaways

  • Burundi sits at the top of the Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) distribution in 2025 at 85.34%, with a lead of 12.33% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Eswatini at 14.55%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Singapore (0.10%), and the page currently covers 182 countries.

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