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FAO Model — Total employment in agrifood systems (AFS) — Value by country

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour...

Countries reporting
145
Highest
326,813 1000 No
India
Lowest
0.09 1000 No
Naoero
Median
801.55 1000 No
Years covered
24
2000–2023
Data points
4,476

What the numbers show

FAO Model — Total employment in agrifood systems (AFS) — Value is currently reported for 145 countries. The highest value is 326,813 1000 No in India; the lowest is 0.09 1000 No in Naoero.

The median across all reporting countries is 801.55 1000 No, and the mean is 9,667 1000 No.

Over the past decade 84 countries rose and 60 fell. The largest increase was in Singapore (up 7,267.2%), and the largest decrease in Lebanon (down 79.3%).

FAO Model — Total employment in agrifood systems (AFS) — Value: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 326,813 1000 No 2023 up 18.6% flat
2 China (People’s Republic of) 219,806 1000 No 2023 down 24.6% falling
3 China, mainland 219,250 1000 No 2023 down 24.6% falling
4 Indonesia 76,188 1000 No 2023 up 12.3% rising
5 Nigeria 73,397 1000 No 2023 up 26.5% rising
6 Bangladesh 46,130 1000 No 2023 up 20.6% rising
7 Pakistan 42,941 1000 No 2023 up 11.0% rising
8 Ethiopia 37,963 1000 No 2023 up 4.1% rising
9 Thailand 21,618 1000 No 2023 down 7.7% flat
10 Brazil 21,178 1000 No 2023 up 2.9% falling
11 Philippines 20,032 1000 No 2023 up 1.6% rising
12 Mexico 17,266 1000 No 2023 up 12.9% rising
13 Uganda 16,090 1000 No 2023 up 30.5% rising
14 Kenya 14,291 1000 No 2023 up 7.7% rising
15 Myanmar 13,616 1000 No 2023 down 16.4% flat
16 Madagascar 13,157 1000 No 2023 up 28.3% rising
17 Mozambique 11,193 1000 No 2023 up 27.0% rising
18 Egypt 10,325 1000 No 2023 down 3.0% rising
19 Japan 9,449 1000 No 2023 down 11.0% falling
20 Angola 8,939 1000 No 2023 up 50.2% rising
21 Peru 8,256 1000 No 2023 up 11.5% rising
22 Colombia 7,806 1000 No 2023 down 0.2% rising
23 Ghana 7,289 1000 No 2023 down 8.9% flat
24 Mali 6,859 1000 No 2023 up 36.2% rising
25 Burkina Faso 5,927 1000 No 2023 up 12.0% rising
26 Republic of Korea 5,552 1000 No 2023 up 21.4% falling
27 Sudan 5,496 1000 No 2022 up 15.6% rising
28 Cambodia 5,493 1000 No 2023 up 0.6% flat
29 Chad 5,366 1000 No 2023 up 38.4% rising
30 Burundi 5,363 1000 No 2023 up 33.3% rising
31 Afghanistan 5,154 1000 No 2021 up 19.8% rising
32 Zambia 5,040 1000 No 2023 up 40.8% rising
33 Ukraine 5,038 1000 No 2021 down 8.3% falling
34 Ecuador 4,379 1000 No 2023 up 40.9% rising
35 Benin 4,123 1000 No 2023 up 50.0% rising
36 Zimbabwe 4,103 1000 No 2023 up 12.4% rising
37 Italy 3,727 1000 No 2023 up 14.0% falling
38 Guatemala 3,681 1000 No 2023 up 23.5% rising
39 Sri Lanka 3,542 1000 No 2023 down 5.1% falling
40 Poland 3,517 1000 No 2023 down 9.9% flat
41 Spain 3,459 1000 No 2023 up 14.5% falling
42 Germany 3,243 1000 No 2023 down 6.5% falling
43 Rwanda 3,230 1000 No 2023 up 36.1% rising
44 France 3,082 1000 No 2023 up 1.9% falling
45 Senegal 2,982 1000 No 2023 up 94.0% rising
46 Canada 2,943 1000 No 2023 up 4.8% rising
47 South Africa 2,652 1000 No 2023 up 10.3% falling
48 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2,566 1000 No 2023 up 1.1% falling
49 Australia and New Zealand 2,330 1000 No 2023 down 2.2% flat
50 Togo 2,115 1000 No 2023 up 53.7% rising
51 Papua New Guinea 2,085 1000 No 2023 up 91.1% rising
52 Yemen 2,035 1000 No 2023 down 21.3% falling
53 Romania 1,923 1000 No 2023 down 20.8% falling
54 Sierra Leone 1,793 1000 No 2023 down 3.8% rising
55 Nepal 1,788 1000 No 2023 down 27.5% flat
56 Honduras 1,742 1000 No 2023 up 6.4% rising
57 Australia 1,706 1000 No 2023 down 8.0% flat
58 Chile 1,685 1000 No 2023 down 8.4% flat
59 Liberia 1,525 1000 No 2023 up 41.4% rising
60 Iraq 1,478 1000 No 2023 up 7.5% rising
61 Greece 1,168 1000 No 2023 up 15.5% falling
62 Dominican Republic 1,133 1000 No 2023 up 4.1% rising
63 El Salvador 1,103 1000 No 2023 up 1.2% rising
64 Belarus 1,054 1000 No 2023 up 2.2% falling
65 Tajikistan 1,053 1000 No 2023 down 1.5% falling
66 Serbia 1,026 1000 No 2023 down 2.7% falling
67 Somalia 999.13 1000 No 2023 up 42.0% rising
68 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 934.32 1000 No 2023 up 19.4% falling
69 Tunisia 920.29 1000 No 2023 down 2.7% falling
70 Eritrea 884.12 1000 No 2023 up 14.6% rising
71 Kyrgyzstan 863.71 1000 No 2023 up 3.7% falling
72 Congo 825.87 1000 No 2023 up 34.7% rising
73 Georgia 801.55 1000 No 2023 down 22.2% falling
74 Cuba 785.01 1000 No 2023 down 15.7% falling
75 Portugal 779.2 1000 No 2023 down 11.5% falling
76 Hungary 695.88 1000 No 2023 up 8.5% falling
77 Czechia 649.56 1000 No 2023 up 2.9% falling
78 Albania 649.2 1000 No 2023 up 7.8% flat
79 Guinea-Bissau 637.54 1000 No 2023 up 35.8% rising
80 Panama 609.22 1000 No 2023 up 6.0% rising
81 Costa Rica 596.41 1000 No 2023 up 16.3% rising
82 Bulgaria 592.72 1000 No 2023 down 0.5% falling
83 United Arab Emirates 591.71 1000 No 2023 down 7.3% rising
84 Mauritania 567.6 1000 No 2023 up 23.2% rising
85 Austria 540.23 1000 No 2023 down 8.5% falling
86 Mongolia 536.25 1000 No 2023 down 9.8% falling
87 Armenia 519.33 1000 No 2023 down 8.4% falling
88 Jamaica 449.94 1000 No 2023 up 6.8% falling
89 Belgium 441.62 1000 No 2023 up 7.6% falling
90 Bosnia and Herzegovina 415.69 1000 No 2023 up 2.7% falling
91 Switzerland 411.71 1000 No 2023 down 15.0% falling
92 Gambia 379.81 1000 No 2023 up 54.4% rising
93 Ireland 367.67 1000 No 2023 up 16.6% falling
94 Sweden 354.9 1000 No 2023 down 7.8% falling
95 Namibia 353.1 1000 No 2023 up 3.0% rising
96 Uruguay 335.52 1000 No 2023 down 8.7% flat
97 Finland 304 1000 No 2023 down 1.1% falling
98 Jordan 292.16 1000 No 2023 up 60.7% rising
99 Lesotho 287.46 1000 No 2023 up 5.0% falling
100 Singapore 285.11 1000 No 2023 up 7,267.2% volatile
101 Israel 279.89 1000 No 2023 up 0.5% rising
102 Croatia 276.86 1000 No 2023 down 28.7% falling
103 Denmark 270.54 1000 No 2023 up 4.3% falling
104 Slovakia 252.95 1000 No 2023 down 6.3% falling
105 Norway 246.82 1000 No 2023 up 10.2% falling
106 Botswana 239.52 1000 No 2023 up 33.1% rising
107 Bhutan 226.91 1000 No 2023 down 2.7% rising
108 Lithuania 223.12 1000 No 2023 down 17.9% falling
109 Palestine, State of 194.41 1000 No 2022 up 11.4% rising
110 Solomon Islands 179.14 1000 No 2023 down 1.3% rising
111 Latvia 156.19 1000 No 2023 down 18.6% falling
112 North Macedonia 139.75 1000 No 2023 down 34.0% falling
113 Slovenia 135.11 1000 No 2023 down 21.0% falling
114 Fiji 133.62 1000 No 2023 down 37.6% rising
115 Comoros 124.15 1000 No 2023 up 42.5% rising
116 Eswatini 96.24 1000 No 2023 up 3.8% rising
117 Mauritius 90.69 1000 No 2023 down 9.1% falling
118 Cyprus 89.55 1000 No 2023 up 20.7% falling
119 Estonia 83.5 1000 No 2023 down 16.0% falling
120 Vanuatu 57.59 1000 No 2023 down 3.3% rising
121 Lebanon 57.45 1000 No 2023 down 79.3% flat
122 Guyana 37.07 1000 No 2023 down 59.6% falling
123 Maldives 30.73 1000 No 2023 down 23.1% rising
124 Iceland 29.97 1000 No 2023 up 0.4% falling
125 Malta 26.6 1000 No 2023 up 53.5% falling
126 Brunei Darussalam 25.94 1000 No 2023 up 23.1% rising
127 Kiribati 22.27 1000 No 2023 up 106.4% rising
128 Suriname 19.04 1000 No 2023 up 7.9% rising
129 Samoa 16 1000 No 2023 down 40.6% rising
130 Tonga 14.32 1000 No 2023 up 21.3% rising
131 Puerto Rico 13.64 1000 No 2023 down 5.2% falling
132 Luxembourg 13.27 1000 No 2023 up 1.8% falling
133 Saint Lucia 8.81 1000 No 2023 up 6.5% flat
134 Grenada 7.09 1000 No 2023 down 27.7% volatile
135 Seychelles 5.73 1000 No 2023 down 6.4% rising
136 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.23 1000 No 2023 down 20.3% falling
137 French Polynesia 2.2 1000 No 2023 down 19.7% falling
138 New Caledonia 2.1 1000 No 2023 down 0.5% falling
139 Palau 1.43 1000 No 2020 up 45.9% rising
140 Cook Islands 1.27 1000 No 2023 unchanged flat
141 Guam 1.21 1000 No 2023 down 16.0% falling
142 United States Virgin Islands 0.58 1000 No 2023 down 34.8% falling
143 Tuvalu 0.48 1000 No 2022 down 66.9% volatile
144 Niue 0.17 1000 No 2022 up 54.5% rising
145 Naoero 0.09 1000 No 2021 down 70.0% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
FAO Model — Total employment in agrifood systems (AFS) — Value
Unit
1000 No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
193 places, 4,476 data points, 2000–2023
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics. The indicators published in FAOSTAT are derived from the labour force statistics (LFS) and rural and urban labour markets (RURURB) databases of the ILOSTAT database. In addition, the ILO modelled estimates and projections (ILOEST) are used to provide information on employment in agriculture. FAOSTAT also publishes indicators on employment in agrifood systems (AFS) from 2000 at the national, regional, and global levels, using a methodology developed by the FAO to estimate the number of people employed within these systems.