ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO in Malawi
Malawi: ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO was 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre in 2023. ▲ Rising
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO in Malawi, 1991–2023
Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in 1000 No per square kilometre.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre for ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo in 2023. That is the highest value across all 33 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.4% on the previous year and up 25.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo in Malawi peaked at 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.0318 1000 No per square kilometre, in 1991.
That places Malawi 9th out of 164 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 33 years of available data.
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO in Malawi, year by year
| Year | 1000 No per square kilometre | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 0.0318 1000 No per square kilometre | — |
| 1992 | 0.033 1000 No per square kilometre | +3.8% |
| 1993 | 0.0331 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 0.0325 1000 No per square kilometre | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 0.0321 1000 No per square kilometre | -1.2% |
| 1996 | 0.0325 1000 No per square kilometre | +1.3% |
| 1997 | 0.0331 1000 No per square kilometre | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 0.0337 1000 No per square kilometre | +1.7% |
| 1999 | 0.0344 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.2% |
| 2000 | 0.0353 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.6% |
| 2001 | 0.0365 1000 No per square kilometre | +3.3% |
| 2002 | 0.0374 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.5% |
| 2003 | 0.0381 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 0.039 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 0.0399 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 0.0402 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 0.0402 1000 No per square kilometre | -0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.0403 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 0.0403 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.0404 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 0.0405 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 0.0408 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 0.0409 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 0.0409 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 0.0411 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 0.0413 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 0.0414 1000 No per square kilometre | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 0.0425 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.7% |
| 2019 | 0.0437 1000 No per square kilometre | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 0.0492 1000 No per square kilometre | +12.8% |
| 2021 | 0.0473 1000 No per square kilometre | -3.9% |
| 2022 | 0.0496 1000 No per square kilometre | +4.9% |
| 2023 | 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre | +3.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.0329 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0318 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0344 1000 No per square kilometre | 9 |
| 2000s | 0.0387 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0353 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0403 1000 No per square kilometre | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0414 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0404 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0437 1000 No per square kilometre | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.0494 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0473 1000 No per square kilometre | 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre | 4 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 6 Haiti 0.0744 1000 No per square kilometre compare
- 7 Uganda 0.0697 1000 No per square kilometre compare
- 8 Comoros 0.0528 1000 No per square kilometre compare
- 10 Nigeria 0.0407 1000 No per square kilometre compare
- 11 Pakistan 0.0369 1000 No per square kilometre compare
- 12 Philippines 0.0364 1000 No per square kilometre compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 30.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo in Malawi?
- Ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo in Malawi was 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre in 2023, according to Statizoid (derived).
- What is the highest ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0513 1000 No per square kilometre in 2023.
- What is the lowest ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0318 1000 No per square kilometre in 1991.
- How does Malawi rank for ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo?
- Malawi ranks 9th out of 164 countries with data for 2023.
- Is ilo - ilo modelled estimates — employment in agriculture - ilo rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 25.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — Value, per square kilometre. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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How this figure is calculated
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — Value divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — Value ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — Value divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.