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Agriculture & Rural Development

World Bank topic catalog for Agriculture & Rural Development.

Topic coverage

Catalog indicators47
Published on site8
Countries with values217
Latest year2025

Publishing strategy

  • Publish high-intent indicators with the strongest search demand first.
  • After each indicator goes live, it automatically unlocks country, country+indicator, ranking, and collection pages.
  • The topic catalog shows how much expansion potential still remains outside the current release.

Analytical takeaways

  • The “Agriculture & Rural Development” theme is now embedded as a standalone SEO hub rather than just another indicator list.
  • The gap between catalog coverage and published coverage helps plan the next import wave without losing structure.
  • Even partial topic coverage creates many internal routes: to global indicators, country comparisons, and region/income slices.

Priority indicators for this topic

Forest area (% of land area) Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens. Rural population Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages. Rural population (% of total population) Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Rural population growth (annual %) Annual rural population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear rural population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) Access to electricity, rural is the percentage of rural population with access to electricity.

Full indicator list for this topic

Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) · EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS · published Access to non-solid fuel, rural (% of rural population) · EG.NSF.ACCS.RU.ZS · catalog only Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) · AG.LND.IRIG.AG.ZS · published Agricultural land (sq. km) · AG.LND.AGRI.K2 · catalog only Agricultural machinery, tractors · AG.AGR.TRAC.NO · catalog only Agricultural machinery, tractors per 100 sq. km of arable land · AG.LND.TRAC.ZS · catalog only Agricultural methane emissions (% of total) · EN.ATM.METH.AG.ZS · catalog only Agricultural methane emissions (thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent) · EN.ATM.METH.AG.KT.CE · catalog only Agricultural nitrous oxide emissions (% of total) · EN.ATM.NOXE.AG.ZS · catalog only Agricultural nitrous oxide emissions (thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent) · EN.ATM.NOXE.AG.KT.CE · catalog only Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports) · TX.VAL.AGRI.ZS.UN · catalog only Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) · TM.VAL.AGRI.ZS.UN · catalog only Agriculture value added per worker (constant 2010 US$) · EA.PRD.AGRI.KD · catalog only Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) · NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · published Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) · NV.AGR.TOTL.CD · catalog only Annual freshwater withdrawals, agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal) · ER.H2O.FWAG.ZS · catalog only Arable land (% of land area) · AG.LND.ARBL.ZS · catalog only Arable land (hectares) · AG.LND.ARBL.HA · catalog only Average precipitation in depth (mm per year) · AG.LND.PRCP.MM · catalog only Cereal production (metric tons) · AG.PRD.CREL.MT · catalog only Cereal yield (kg per hectare) · AG.YLD.CREL.KG · catalog only Crop production index (2014-2016 = 100) · AG.PRD.CROP.XD · catalog only Economically active population in agriculture (number) · EN.AGR.EMPL · catalog only Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS · published Employment in agriculture, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · SL.AGR.EMPL.FE.ZS · catalog only Employment in agriculture, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · SL.AGR.EMPL.MA.ZS · catalog only Fertilizer consumption (% of fertilizer production) · AG.CON.FERT.PT.ZS · catalog only Fertilizer consumption (kilograms per hectare of arable land) · AG.CON.FERT.ZS · catalog only Food production index (2014-2016 = 100) · AG.PRD.FOOD.XD · catalog only Forest area (% of land area) · AG.LND.FRST.ZS · published Forest area (sq. km) · AG.LND.FRST.K2 · catalog only Improved sanitation facilities, rural (% of rural population with access) · SH.STA.ACSN.RU · catalog only Improved water source, rural (% of rural population with access) · SH.H2O.SAFE.RU.ZS · catalog only Land area (sq. km) · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · catalog only Land under cereal production (hectares) · AG.LND.CREL.HA · catalog only Livestock production index (2014-2016 = 100) · AG.PRD.LVSK.XD · catalog only Permanent cropland (% of land area) · AG.LND.CROP.ZS · catalog only Rural land area (sq. km) · AG.LND.TOTL.RU.K2 · catalog only Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area) · AG.LND.EL5M.RU.ZS · catalog only Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km) · AG.LND.EL5M.RU.K2 · catalog only Rural population · SP.RUR.TOTL · published Rural population (% of total population) · SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS · published Rural population growth (annual %) · SP.RUR.TOTL.ZG · published Rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) · EN.POP.EL5M.RU.ZS · catalog only Rural poverty gap at national poverty lines (%) · SI.POV.RUGP · catalog only Rural poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of rural population) · SI.POV.RUHC · catalog only Surface area (sq. km) · AG.SRF.TOTL.K2 · catalog only