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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 covers 106 countries. Somalia is highest, at 62.754; Brunei is lowest, at 0.070. The middle country reads 17.206. Against 1980, 102 values changed (52 up, 50 down), 4 countries joined.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestSomalia

62.754

LowestBrunei

0.070

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), 1981, 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 106 countries · select a heading to sort

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa62.754
2UgandaUGAEastern Africa58.326
3BurundiBDIEastern Africa58.143
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia56.799
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa53.407
6GhanaGHAWestern Africa53.084
7Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa49.271
8MaliMLIWestern Africa47.099
9NigerNERWestern Africa45.652
10RwandaRWAEastern Africa40.737
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa40.271
12BhutanBTNSouthern Asia37.618
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America34.390
14TongaTONPolynesia33.818
15Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia33.393
16SudanSDNNorthern Africa33.380
17IndiaINDSouthern Asia33.298
18BeninBENWestern Africa32.665
19BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia31.952
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia31.259
21GambiaGMBWestern Africa30.628
22MalawiMWIEastern Africa29.902
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa29.804
24ComorosCOMEastern Africa29.375
25Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa29.330

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Somalia62.754
  2. 2Uganda58.326
  3. 3Burundi58.143
  4. 4Nepal56.799
  5. 5Ethiopia53.407

Lowest

  1. 106Brunei0.070
  2. 105Qatar0.545
  3. 104United Arab Emirates0.548
  4. 103Saudi Arabia0.972
  5. 102Singapore1.463

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.206. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 102values changed, of 102 in both
  • 52 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Uganda71.763 → 58.326−13.437
  • Chad45.732 → 40.271−5.461
  • Rwanda45.847 → 40.737−5.110
  • Ghana57.920 → 53.084−4.836
  • Morocco15.122 → 10.685−4.437
+ Brazil+ Ethiopia+ Mongolia+ Nigeria

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 1981.

  • 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 106 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 (1981). Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-value-added/1981

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07Questions

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Agriculture share of GDP in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981?

Somalia, at 62.754, of the 106 countries in the file.

What year does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

106.

Where can I download Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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