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Employment in Agriculture, 2016

2016, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Agriculture, 2016 covers 187 countries. Burundi is highest, at 86.31853; Singapore is lowest, at 0.11898. The middle country reads 16.72247. Against 2015, 187 values changed (41 up, 146 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Agriculture · Data for 2016

HighestBurundi

86.31853

LowestSingapore

0.11898

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa86.31853
2NigerNERWestern Africa74.56542
3MadagascarMDGEastern Africa73.81722
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa71.85209
5LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia71.85091
6MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa71.81861
7UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.62242
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa66.41937
9TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa65.98194
10MalawiMWIEastern Africa65.16824
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa65.10576
12MaliMLIWestern Africa64.90268
13Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa64.53627
14ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa63.72148
15South SudanSSDEastern Africa62.46262
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa61.08810
17MoldovaMDAEastern Europe60.39059
18DR CongoCODMiddle Africa60.31026
19BhutanBTNSouthern Asia56.57255
20EritreaERIEastern Africa56.20126
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa56.16077
22Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa56.01475
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa53.92606
24Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa52.92405
25AngolaAGOMiddle Africa52.92132

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi86.31853
  2. 2Niger74.56542
  3. 3Madagascar73.81722
  4. 4Chad71.85209
  5. 5Laos71.85091

Lowest

  1. 187Singapore0.11898
  2. 186Hong Kong0.21983
  3. 185Macau0.40010
  4. 184Israel1.01796
  5. 183Bahrain1.04493

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 16.72247. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 41 · 146rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2016.

  • 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) (2016). Employment in Agriculture, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-employment/2016

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07Questions

Employment in Agriculture, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in agriculture in Employment in Agriculture, 2016?

Burundi, at 86.31853, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Agriculture, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Employment in Agriculture, 2016 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Agriculture, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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