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Employment in agriculture as a share of total employment (ILO modeled estimates).

📅 2025📏 % of employment181 entries
85.3% – 41.6%41.1% – 23.6%23.1% – 9.2%9.2% – 2.8%2.8% – 0.1%No data
1
🇧🇮Burundi
85.3%
2
🇲🇿Mozambique
73.0%
3
🇳🇪Niger
73.0%
4
🇹🇩Chad
71.7%
5
🇲🇬Madagascar
69.2%
6
🇱🇦Laos
68.6%
7
🇨🇫Central African Republic
66.1%
8
🇲🇼Malawi
65.0%
9
🇺🇬Uganda
64.9%
10
🇹🇿Tanzania
64.6%
11
🇲🇱Mali
63.0%
12
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
61.1%
13
🇪🇹Ethiopia
60.1%
14
🇨🇩DR Congo
58.5%
15
🇪🇷Eritrea
55.5%
16
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
55.3%
17
🇿🇲Zambia
54.5%
18
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
54.3%
19
🇰🇵North Korea
54.1%
20
🇦🇴Angola
51.9%
21
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
51.8%
22
🇦🇫Afghanistan
51.6%
23
🇲🇩Moldova
50.5%
24
🇬🇳Guinea
47.4%
25
🇭🇹Haiti
46.6%
26
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
46.0%
27
🇰🇪Kenya
45.8%
28
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
45.4%
29
🇲🇲Myanmar
45.0%
30
🇻🇺Vanuatu
44.5%
31
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
44.5%
32
🇧🇩Bangladesh
44.3%
33
🇹🇯Tajikistan
43.3%
34
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
42.5%
35
🇧🇹Bhutan
42.4%
36
🇨🇲Cameroon
41.9%
37
🇮🇳India
41.6%
38
🇱🇷Liberia
41.1%
39
🇧🇯Benin
40.2%
40
🇹🇬Togo
37.6%
41
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
36.9%
42
🇨🇬Congo
36.4%
43
🇵🇰Pakistan
36.2%
44
🇫🇯Fiji
35.6%
45
🇷🇼Rwanda
35.1%
46
🇬🇭Ghana
34.6%
47
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
34.2%
48
🇬🇪Georgia
34.0%
49
🇰🇲Comoros
33.6%
50
🇳🇬Nigeria
33.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Burundi ranks first with 85.3%, followed by Mozambique (73.0%) and Niger (73.0%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 85.3% (Burundi) to 0.1% (Singapore), with a median of 14.5%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Africa and 1 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: % of employment.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026