Countries With the Highest Employment in Agriculture

Every country with a figure for employment in agriculture, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Burundi (85.3%), Mozambique (73%) and Niger (73%). The middle country of the 187 has 14.2%.

What this measures

Employment in agriculture (% of total employment), in % of employment. Source: International Labour Organization. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

Estimated with a model by the ILO. The classic measure of a country moving from farming to industry and services. It is one of the measures most closely linked to income on the site. No "better" direction is set, because a farming country is not doing badly by farming.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2021–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on employment in agriculture

• Countries With the Lowest Employment in Agriculture
• Employment in agriculture by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.