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Employment in Agriculture, 1991

1991, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Agriculture, 1991 covers 187 countries. Burundi is highest, at 91.188; Singapore is lowest, at 0.284. The middle country reads 28.294.

Employment in Agriculture · Data for 1991

HighestBurundi

91.188

LowestSingapore

0.284

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Employment in Agriculture, 1991, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Employment in Agriculture, 1991: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa91.188
2LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia90.113
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa84.278
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa83.609
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa81.912
6RwandaRWAEastern Africa79.425
7MadagascarMDGEastern Africa78.457
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa77.151
9CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia75.334
10NigerNERWestern Africa75.075
11ZambiaZMBEastern Africa74.593
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia73.994
13TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa73.677
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa72.949
15GuineaGINWestern Africa72.895
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa71.780
17Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa70.885
18MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia70.251
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia69.921
20Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa68.491
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia67.661
22South SudanSSDEastern Africa66.680
23AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia65.334
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa64.997
25Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa64.349

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi91.188
  2. 2Laos90.113
  3. 3Mozambique84.278
  4. 4Chad83.609
  5. 5Burkina Faso81.912

Lowest

  1. 187Singapore0.284
  2. 186Macau0.400
  3. 185Hong Kong0.948
  4. 184Djibouti1.949
  5. 183United Kingdom2.418

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 28.294. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1991.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (1991). Employment in Agriculture, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-employment/1991

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06Questions

Employment in Agriculture, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in agriculture in Employment in Agriculture, 1991?

Burundi, at 91.188, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Agriculture, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Employment in Agriculture, 1991 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Agriculture, 1991?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Employment in Agriculture, 1991 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Employment in Agriculture, 2025.

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