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
151 Switzerland 2.24%
152 Australia 2.18%
153 Slovak Republic 2.16%
154 Cyprus 2.15%
155 Channel Islands 2.06%
156 French Polynesia 1.92%
157 Kuwait 1.89%
158 New Caledonia 1.78%
159 Sweden 1.77%
160 Netherlands 1.70%
161 Denmark 1.62%
162 Qatar 1.62%
163 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 1.59%
164 Guam 1.56%
165 United States 1.52%
166 United Arab Emirates 1.44%
167 Barbados 1.25%
168 Brunei Darussalam 1.20%
169 Djibouti 1.15%
170 Puerto Rico (US) 1.14%
171 Canada 1.10%
172 Germany 1.07%
173 Belgium 0.98%
174 Luxembourg 0.88%
175 Malta 0.88%
176 United Kingdom 0.85%
177 Bahrain 0.83%
178 Bahamas, The 0.77%
179 Israel 0.76%
180 Macao SAR, China 0.37%
181 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.18%
182 Singapore 0.10%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

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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