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Employment in Agriculture, 2009

2009, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Agriculture, 2009 covers 187 countries. Burundi is highest, at 88.8834; Singapore is lowest, at 0.1391. The middle country reads 19.1233. Against 2008, 187 values changed (62 up, 125 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Agriculture · Data for 2009

HighestBurundi

88.8834

LowestSingapore

0.1391

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa88.8834
2LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia79.8523
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa77.1567
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa76.1808
5NigerNERWestern Africa75.4870
6MadagascarMDGEastern Africa75.1124
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa75.1049
8ZambiaZMBEastern Africa73.5151
9TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa69.6098
10MalawiMWIEastern Africa67.7179
11MaliMLIWestern Africa67.1229
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa66.4563
13Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa66.0730
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa65.2661
15UgandaUGAEastern Africa64.6236
16DR CongoCODMiddle Africa64.4677
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa64.4478
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa64.4233
19RwandaRWAEastern Africa64.1601
20South SudanSSDEastern Africa63.5524
21GuineaGINWestern Africa61.5910
22BhutanBTNSouthern Asia60.4487
23CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia58.0386
24EritreaERIEastern Africa57.3041
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa56.6800

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi88.8834
  2. 2Laos79.8523
  3. 3Mozambique77.1567
  4. 4Chad76.1808
  5. 5Niger75.4870

Lowest

  1. 187Singapore0.1391
  2. 186Hong Kong0.2650
  3. 185Macau0.4001
  4. 184United Kingdom1.1094
  5. 183Bahrain1.1416

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 19.1233. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 62 · 125rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Togo47.6892 → 43.2210−4.4682
  • Afghanistan58.0653 → 54.8843−3.1810
  • Ghana55.0095 → 52.1109−2.8986
  • Zambia76.3920 → 73.5151−2.8769
  • Mongolia44.9459 → 42.7066−2.2393

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 2009.

  • 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.

05The 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) (2009). Employment in Agriculture, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-employment/2009

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07Questions

Employment in Agriculture, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in agriculture in Employment in Agriculture, 2009?

Burundi, at 88.8834, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Agriculture, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Employment in Agriculture, 2009 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Agriculture, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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