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
101 Mexico 11.40%
102 Kazakhstan 11.32%
103 Maldives 11.31%
104 Romania 10.95%
105 Greece 10.68%
106 Libya 10.00%
107 Algeria 9.48%
108 Belarus 9.48%
109 Cabo Verde 9.25%
110 Malaysia 9.18%
111 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 9.07%
112 Venezuela, RB 8.87%
113 North Macedonia 8.50%
114 Iraq 8.17%
115 Uruguay 8.07%
116 Brazil 7.63%
117 St. Lucia 7.47%
118 Dominican Republic 7.01%
119 Argentina 7.00%
120 Suriname 6.98%
121 Latvia 6.66%
122 Poland 6.22%
123 Chile 6.07%
124 Oman 5.95%
125 New Zealand 5.42%
126 South Africa 5.41%
127 Russian Federation 5.11%
128 Korea, Rep. 5.10%
129 Mauritius 4.71%
130 Bulgaria 4.69%
131 Lithuania 4.66%
132 Trinidad and Tobago 4.49%
133 Croatia 4.33%
134 Montenegro 4.19%
135 Hungary 4.11%
136 Ireland 3.85%
137 Slovenia 3.66%
138 Iceland 3.61%
139 Finland 3.49%
140 Spain 3.37%
141 Italy 3.35%
142 Jordan 3.12%
143 Estonia 2.96%
144 Japan 2.81%
145 Portugal 2.78%
146 Austria 2.77%
147 Czechia 2.71%
148 Norway 2.50%
149 Saudi Arabia 2.50%
150 France 2.33%
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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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