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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978

1978, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 covers 93 countries. Uganda is highest, at 73.655; Brunei is lowest, at 0.138. The middle country reads 20.094. Against 1977, 92 values changed (31 up, 61 down), 1 country joined.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1978

HighestUganda

73.655

LowestBrunei

0.138

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 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 93 countries · select a heading to sort

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa73.655
2GhanaGHAWestern Africa60.712
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia58.869
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa55.021
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia54.250
6BurundiBDIEastern Africa53.964
7NigerNERWestern Africa52.680
8MaliMLIWestern Africa52.137
9Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa51.613
10RwandaRWAEastern Africa42.418
11El SalvadorSLVCentral America37.036
12ChadTCDMiddle Africa36.092
13Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia36.027
14TongaTONPolynesia35.703
15SudanSDNNorthern Africa34.743
16BeninBENWestern Africa34.542
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia34.274
18ParaguayPRYSouth America32.067
19KenyaKENEastern Africa32.064
20Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa31.971
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia31.804
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa31.398
23CameroonCMRMiddle Africa31.353
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia30.785
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa30.333

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda73.655
  2. 2Ghana60.712
  3. 3Nepal58.869
  4. 4Somalia55.021
  5. 5Bangladesh54.250

Lowest

  1. 93Brunei0.138
  2. 92United Arab Emirates0.629
  3. 91Saudi Arabia1.500
  4. 90Singapore1.665
  5. 89Puerto Rico2.943

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.094. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 92values changed, of 92 in both
  • 31 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Belize

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 World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1978.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group 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 93 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

World Bank Group (1978). Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-value-added/1978

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07Questions

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Agriculture share of GDP in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978?

Uganda, at 73.655, of the 93 countries in the file.

What year does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 cover?

93.

Where can I download Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978?

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

Is Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 2025.

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