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Employment in Agriculture, 2021

2021, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Agriculture, 2021 covers 187 countries. Burundi is highest, at 85.6601; Singapore is lowest, at 0.1078. The middle country reads 15.6650. Against 2020, 187 values changed (72 up, 115 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Agriculture · Data for 2021

HighestBurundi

85.6601

LowestSingapore

0.1078

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa85.6601
2NigerNERWestern Africa74.9533
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa73.5139
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa72.1110
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa71.0617
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia69.8577
7UgandaUGAEastern Africa66.6586
8MaliMLIWestern Africa66.6279
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa66.1172
10TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa65.9190
11MalawiMWIEastern Africa65.2502
12Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa64.2874
13South SudanSSDEastern Africa64.0806
14EthiopiaETHEastern Africa63.4660
15DR CongoCODMiddle Africa61.4143
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa57.8091
17EritreaERIEastern Africa57.4075
18AngolaAGOMiddle Africa56.7075
19MoldovaMDAEastern Europe56.5984
20RwandaRWAEastern Africa56.2063
21Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa55.5219
22North KoreaPRKEastern Asia55.1017
23ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa53.6225
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa53.4018
25KenyaKENEastern Africa51.2355

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi85.6601
  2. 2Niger74.9533
  3. 3Mozambique73.5139
  4. 4Chad72.1110
  5. 5Madagascar71.0617

Lowest

  1. 187Singapore0.1078
  2. 186Hong Kong0.1988
  3. 185Macau0.3950
  4. 184Israel0.7957
  5. 183Malta0.8839

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.6650. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 72 · 115rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Peru31.5878 → 25.9253−5.6626
  • Zimbabwe58.6056 → 53.6225−4.9831
  • Vietnam32.6124 → 29.0283−3.5841
  • Albania35.8619 → 33.8048−2.0571
  • Tonga28.6623 → 26.7227−1.9396

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 2021.

  • 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) (2021). Employment in Agriculture, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-employment/2021

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07Questions

Employment in Agriculture, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in agriculture in Employment in Agriculture, 2021?

Burundi, at 85.6601, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Agriculture, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Employment in Agriculture, 2021 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Agriculture, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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