Dataset · World Bank Group
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker
35 years, 1991–2025 · 151 countries
This is how much a country's farms, forests and fisheries produce for each person working in them, in constant 2015 dollars — agricultural labour productivity. It is the gap between farm and city incomes in one number, and one of the clearest measures of how far a country's agriculture has modernised.
This site holds every year from 1991 to 2025, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker · the file
- Newest
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker, 2025
- Held
- 35 years · 5,610 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0135 years
Every year
Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 35 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: agriculture-value-added-per-worker-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 151 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 151 | 0 | |
Agricultural value added per worker (constant 2015 US$)agriculture_value_added_per_workerHeadline | The headline figure: Agricultural value added per worker (constant 2015 US$). | Number · up to 12 decimals | 211 | 151 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03179 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 51 | 51 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Americas | 29 | 31 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 23 |
| Asia | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 45 | 44 | 38 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| All | 175 | 179 | 174 | 174 | 174 | 173 | 173 | 173 | 172 | 169 | 168 | 151 |
The newest 12 of 35 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2025
− Afghanistan
− United Arab Emirates
− Bahamas
− Bolivia
− Barbados
− Cuba
− Israel
− Japan
− New Zealand
− Papua New Guinea
− Solomon Islands
− Suriname
− Tajikistan
− Timor-Leste
− Tonga
− Trinidad and Tobago
− Vanuatu
- 2024
− Lebanon
- 2023
− Palestine
− Sudan
− Syria
- 2022
− Ukraine
- 2019
− Yemen
- 2016
− New Caledonia
− Puerto Rico
− French Polynesia
− South Sudan
− United States
- 2015
+ New Caledonia
+ Puerto Rico
+ French Polynesia
+ United States
- 2013
+ Djibouti
Not in this dataset · 46 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
35 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as agriculture-value-added-per-worker-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 12 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
The World Bank's indicator API (NV.AGR.EMPL.KD): the Bank's own value added in agriculture divided by the International Labour Organization's modelled employment in the sector.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker, 1991–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-value-added-per-worker
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. World Development Indicators: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added per worker (NV.AGR.EMPL.KD), using ILO modelled employment estimates (ILOSTAT). Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker: questions and answers
What is the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker?
This is how much a country's farms, forests and fisheries produce for each person working in them, in constant 2015 dollars — agricultural labour productivity. It is the gap between farm and city incomes in one number, and one of the clearest measures of how far a country's agriculture has modernised.
Which years of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker can I download?
All 35, from 1991 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.