Agriculture (central government expenditure) — Value Standard Local Currency by country
The Statistics Division of FAO collects annually data on Government Expenditure on Agriculture through a questionnaire, which was developed in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the responsible institution for the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) methodology and annually collects...
What the numbers show
Agriculture (central government expenditure) — Value Standard Local Currency is currently reported for 84 countries. The highest value is 49.65 million million SLC in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 million SLC in Canada.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,812 million SLC, and the mean is 793,147 million SLC.
Over the past decade 61 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Suriname (up 5,616.3%), and the largest decrease in Canada (down 100.0%).
Agriculture (central government expenditure) — Value Standard Local: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 49.65 million million SLC | 2024 | up 635.5% | volatile |
| 2 | Republic of Korea | 8.71 million million SLC | 2023 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 3 | Colombia | 3.79 million million SLC | 2024 | up 178.6% | rising |
| 4 | Chile | 895,482 million SLC | 2024 | up 93.9% | rising |
| 5 | Paraguay | 707,903 million SLC | 2024 | up 30.4% | rising |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 476,820 million SLC | 2024 | up 3,385.8% | volatile |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 350,743 million SLC | 2021 | up 74.1% | rising |
| 8 | Madagascar | 291,661 million SLC | 2018 | up 74.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Argentina | 226,910 million SLC | 2024 | up 4,462.8% | volatile |
| 10 | Burkina Faso | 202,019 million SLC | 2024 | up 514.7% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea | 189,240 million SLC | 2023 | down 67.7% | volatile |
| 12 | Senegal | 167,053 million SLC | 2024 | up 171.1% | rising |
| 13 | Angola | 128,716 million SLC | 2024 | up 267.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Mexico | 78,777 million SLC | 2024 | down 10.5% | falling |
| 15 | Kenya | 73,349 million SLC | 2024 | up 94.7% | rising |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 73,038 million SLC | 2015 | up 40.6% | rising |
| 17 | Niger | 71,764 million SLC | 2024 | down 18.5% | falling |
| 18 | Armenia | 58,561 million SLC | 2022 | up 177.1% | rising |
| 19 | Burundi | 44,909 million SLC | 2019 | — | rising |
| 20 | Togo | 39,826 million SLC | 2018 | up 16.3% | rising |
| 21 | Lebanon | 35,073 million SLC | 2021 | — | falling |
| 22 | Guyana | 32,795 million SLC | 2023 | up 100.6% | rising |
| 23 | Chad | 30,902 million SLC | 2020 | down 33.2% | falling |
| 24 | Dominican Republic | 27,579 million SLC | 2024 | up 146.1% | rising |
| 25 | Brazil | 24,864 million SLC | 2024 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 26 | Poland | 23,687 million SLC | 2023 | up 219.5% | rising |
| 27 | Iceland | 23,550 million SLC | 2024 | up 37.9% | rising |
| 28 | Pakistan | 23,504 million SLC | 2012 | up 2,610.4% | volatile |
| 29 | South Africa | 20,829 million SLC | 2023 | up 132.5% | volatile |
| 30 | Gabon | 17,638 million SLC | 2023 | up 60.7% | rising |
| 31 | Yemen | 17,218 million SLC | 2014 | up 132.3% | rising |
| 32 | Albania | 13,145 million SLC | 2022 | up 159.9% | rising |
| 33 | Ukraine | 12,457 million SLC | 2024 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 34 | Zambia | 9,763 million SLC | 2024 | up 95.9% | volatile |
| 35 | Egypt | 8,551 million SLC | 2024 | up 57.0% | rising |
| 36 | Equatorial Guinea | 8,274 million SLC | 2022 | — | falling |
| 37 | Central African Republic | 7,619 million SLC | 2024 | down 30.0% | rising |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 7,199 million SLC | 2024 | up 1,042.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Denmark | 7,020 million SLC | 2024 | up 131.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Guinea-Bissau | 6,486 million SLC | 2024 | up 933.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Sweden | 6,392 million SLC | 2024 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 42 | Mauritania | 3,849 million SLC | 2023 | — | rising |
| 43 | Switzerland | 3,775 million SLC | 2023 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 44 | Cuba | 2,921 million SLC | 2019 | — | rising |
| 45 | Australia | 2,830 million SLC | 2024 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 46 | Israel | 2,401 million SLC | 2024 | up 52.1% | rising |
| 47 | Mauritius | 2,301 million SLC | 2024 | up 25.7% | rising |
| 48 | Ghana | 1,850 million SLC | 2024 | up 748.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Guatemala | 1,649 million SLC | 2024 | up 35.3% | rising |
| 50 | Eswatini | 1,362 million SLC | 2024 | up 350.2% | volatile |
| 51 | Peru | 1,239 million SLC | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 52 | Namibia | 1,150 million SLC | 2024 | up 57.1% | rising |
| 53 | Azerbaijan | 920.14 million SLC | 2022 | up 106.3% | rising |
| 54 | Turkmenistan | 916.3 million SLC | 2024 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 55 | Slovakia | 901.13 million SLC | 2011 | up 151.3% | rising |
| 56 | Suriname | 615.07 million SLC | 2024 | up 5,616.3% | volatile |
| 57 | Kyrgyzstan | 559.1 million SLC | 2024 | up 381.2% | volatile |
| 58 | Lesotho | 421.7 million SLC | 2024 | up 58.0% | rising |
| 59 | Gambia | 385.84 million SLC | 2022 | up 73.8% | volatile |
| 60 | Nicaragua | 330 million SLC | 2023 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 61 | Panama | 275.13 million SLC | 2023 | up 161.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Ecuador | 146.49 million SLC | 2024 | down 70.6% | volatile |
| 63 | El Salvador | 143.9 million SLC | 2024 | up 67.7% | rising |
| 64 | Vanuatu | 126.56 million SLC | 2016 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 65 | Papua New Guinea | 120.3 million SLC | 2019 | — | flat |
| 66 | Sao Tome and Principe | 116 million SLC | 2022 | down 38.3% | volatile |
| 67 | Seychelles | 114.38 million SLC | 2024 | up 236.9% | volatile |
| 68 | Barbados | 101.21 million SLC | 2024 | down 27.9% | flat |
| 69 | Mozambique | 33.96 million SLC | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 70 | Bahamas | 33.87 million SLC | 2024 | up 20.5% | rising |
| 71 | Brunei Darussalam | 30.48 million SLC | 2024 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 72 | Montenegro | 28.96 million SLC | 2024 | up 198.2% | volatile |
| 73 | Fiji | 28 million SLC | 2023 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 74 | Saint Lucia | 26.99 million SLC | 2024 | down 17.3% | falling |
| 75 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.72 million SLC | 2024 | up 118.2% | rising |
| 76 | Antigua and Barbuda | 21.08 million SLC | 2024 | up 126.9% | rising |
| 77 | Samoa | 18.71 million SLC | 2024 | up 122.7% | volatile |
| 78 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 14.57 million SLC | 2022 | — | rising |
| 79 | Tonga | 11.91 million SLC | 2024 | up 79.9% | rising |
| 80 | Grenada | 8.08 million SLC | 2024 | down 64.6% | volatile |
| 81 | United Arab Emirates | 6.94 million SLC | 2024 | down 60.1% | falling |
| 82 | Nauru | 1.37 million SLC | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 83 | Tuvalu | 0.53 million SLC | 2017 | up 51.4% | rising |
| 84 | Canada | 0 million SLC | 2014 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Viet Nam 4.95 million million SLC
- Côte d'Ivoire 133,348 million SLC
- United Republic of Tanzania 728,675 million SLC
- Cabo Verde 1,139 million SLC
- Republic of Moldova 2,737 million SLC
About this data
The Statistics Division of FAO collects annually data on Government Expenditure on Agriculture through a questionnaire, which was developed in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is the responsible institution for the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) methodology and annually collects GFS data, including Expenditure by Functions of Government (COFOG). The Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is an international classification developed by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and published by the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), with the aim of categorise governments' functions according to their purposes. The FAO questionnaire aligns with Table 7 of the IMF GFS questionnaire, replicates the relevant aggregates and drills down to request additional detail related to Agriculture. The FAO dataset consists of a time series, from 2001 onwards, of Total Government Expenditure and expenditure in: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting, along with its three disaggregated subsectors of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; and Environmental Protection. In addition, expenditure in each detailed function are further disaggregated into Recurrent and Capital expenditure. Additional indicators include the Agriculture Share of Government Expenditure, and the Agriculture Orientation Index (ratio between the Agriculture Share of Government Expenditure and the Agriculture Value Added as Share of GDP). Data are reported for the highest level of government available (Consolidated general government, consolidated central government or budgetary central government) and are available for about 100 countries on a regular basis.