ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — 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
175
Highest
246,243 1000 No
India
Lowest
0.54 1000 No
United States Virgin Islands
Median
424.6 1000 No
Years covered
35
1991–2025
Data points
7,893
What the numbers show
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO modelled estimates — Value is currently reported for 175 countries. The highest value is 246,243 1000 No in India; the lowest is 0.54 1000 No in United States Virgin Islands.
The median across all reporting countries is 424.6 1000 No, and the mean is 5,701 1000 No.
Over the past decade 80 countries rose and 95 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 73.1%), and the largest decrease in Barbados (down 54.3%).
ILO - ILO Modelled Estimates — Employment in agriculture - ILO: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 246,243 1000 No | 2025 | up 20.3% | rising |
| 2 | China | 160,415 1000 No | 2025 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 3 | China, mainland | 159,883 1000 No | 2025 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 4 | Indonesia | 38,855 1000 No | 2025 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 5 | Nigeria | 37,896 1000 No | 2025 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 6 | Ethiopia | 33,014 1000 No | 2025 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 31,830 1000 No | 2025 | up 23.5% | flat |
| 8 | Pakistan | 29,180 1000 No | 2025 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 9 | Uganda | 14,755 1000 No | 2025 | up 43.4% | rising |
| 10 | Thailand | 11,580 1000 No | 2025 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 11 | Madagascar | 11,470 1000 No | 2025 | up 23.2% | rising |
| 12 | Kenya | 10,699 1000 No | 2025 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 13 | Mozambique | 10,674 1000 No | 2025 | up 34.5% | rising |
| 14 | Philippines | 10,456 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.9% | rising |
| 15 | Myanmar | 9,999 1000 No | 2025 | down 19.8% | falling |
| 16 | Niger | 8,704 1000 No | 2025 | up 58.1% | rising |
| 17 | Brazil | 7,769 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 18 | Angola | 7,283 1000 No | 2025 | up 40.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Mexico | 6,847 1000 No | 2025 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 20 | Egypt | 5,898 1000 No | 2025 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 21 | Mali | 5,607 1000 No | 2025 | up 33.8% | rising |
| 22 | Burundi | 5,334 1000 No | 2025 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 23 | Malawi | 5,134 1000 No | 2025 | up 32.4% | rising |
| 24 | Burkina Faso | 4,955 1000 No | 2025 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 25 | Chad | 4,788 1000 No | 2025 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 26 | Cameroon | 4,626 1000 No | 2025 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 27 | Ghana | 4,445 1000 No | 2025 | down 10.0% | flat |
| 28 | Peru | 4,224 1000 No | 2025 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 29 | Afghanistan | 4,220 1000 No | 2025 | up 23.9% | rising |
| 30 | Zambia | 4,110 1000 No | 2025 | up 34.9% | rising |
| 31 | Sudan | 4,027 1000 No | 2022 | up 18.3% | rising |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 3,651 1000 No | 2025 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 33 | Colombia | 3,519 1000 No | 2025 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 34 | Uzbekistan | 3,518 1000 No | 2025 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 35 | Cambodia | 3,454 1000 No | 2025 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 36 | Zimbabwe | 3,377 1000 No | 2025 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 37 | Morocco | 3,206 1000 No | 2025 | down 16.9% | falling |
| 38 | South Sudan | 2,833 1000 No | 2023 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 39 | Ecuador | 2,819 1000 No | 2025 | up 41.3% | rising |
| 40 | Benin | 2,631 1000 No | 2025 | up 31.3% | rising |
| 41 | Ukraine | 2,614 1000 No | 2021 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 42 | Sri Lanka | 2,190 1000 No | 2025 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 43 | Guatemala | 2,174 1000 No | 2025 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 44 | Yemen | 2,132 1000 No | 2025 | up 46.7% | falling |
| 45 | Guinea | 2,121 1000 No | 2025 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 46 | Haiti | 2,089 1000 No | 2025 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 47 | Japan | 1,903 1000 No | 2025 | down 21.1% | falling |
| 48 | Rwanda | 1,815 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.4% | rising |
| 49 | Senegal | 1,764 1000 No | 2025 | up 48.3% | rising |
| 50 | Nepal | 1,716 1000 No | 2025 | down 2.7% | flat |
| 51 | Azerbaijan | 1,678 1000 No | 2025 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 52 | Malaysia | 1,654 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.4% | rising |
| 53 | Republic of Korea | 1,483 1000 No | 2025 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 54 | Argentina | 1,458 1000 No | 2025 | up 2.2% | falling |
| 55 | Papua New Guinea | 1,346 1000 No | 2025 | up 69.5% | rising |
| 56 | Central African Republic | 1,286 1000 No | 2025 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 57 | Sierra Leone | 1,265 1000 No | 2025 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 58 | Togo | 1,261 1000 No | 2025 | up 42.8% | rising |
| 59 | Poland | 1,149 1000 No | 2025 | down 42.0% | falling |
| 60 | Algeria | 1,136 1000 No | 2025 | up 19.9% | falling |
| 61 | Kazakhstan | 1,079 1000 No | 2025 | down 31.6% | falling |
| 62 | Liberia | 1,068 1000 No | 2025 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 63 | Tajikistan | 1,066 1000 No | 2025 | up 7.3% | flat |
| 64 | South Africa | 977.23 1000 No | 2025 | up 5.5% | falling |
| 65 | Nicaragua | 929.72 1000 No | 2022 | up 20.4% | rising |
| 66 | Honduras | 925.47 1000 No | 2025 | up 21.6% | rising |
| 67 | Eritrea | 919.94 1000 No | 2025 | up 19.5% | rising |
| 68 | Somalia | 865.35 1000 No | 2025 | up 45.6% | rising |
| 69 | Iraq | 862.53 1000 No | 2025 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 70 | Romania | 843.36 1000 No | 2025 | down 34.2% | falling |
| 71 | Italy | 807.16 1000 No | 2025 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 72 | Congo | 769.34 1000 No | 2025 | up 39.3% | rising |
| 73 | Cuba | 740.86 1000 No | 2025 | down 21.3% | falling |
| 74 | Spain | 726.55 1000 No | 2025 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 75 | France | 685.11 1000 No | 2025 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 76 | Georgia | 580.94 1000 No | 2025 | down 26.6% | falling |
| 77 | Chile | 570.12 1000 No | 2025 | down 8.9% | falling |
| 78 | Serbia | 567.93 1000 No | 2025 | down 13.5% | falling |
| 79 | Paraguay | 536.32 1000 No | 2025 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 80 | Guinea-Bissau | 534.5 1000 No | 2025 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 81 | China, Taiwan Province of | 523.49 1000 No | 2025 | down 10.9% | falling |
| 82 | Australia and New Zealand | 464.42 1000 No | 2025 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 83 | Turkmenistan | 462.49 1000 No | 2025 | down 2.5% | falling |
| 84 | Germany | 452.26 1000 No | 2025 | down 21.0% | falling |
| 85 | Tunisia | 451.43 1000 No | 2025 | down 11.5% | falling |
| 86 | Greece | 439.5 1000 No | 2025 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 87 | Belarus | 434.88 1000 No | 2025 | down 7.2% | falling |
| 88 | Kyrgyzstan | 424.6 1000 No | 2025 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 89 | Saudi Arabia | 416.39 1000 No | 2025 | down 20.6% | rising |
| 90 | Albania | 407.12 1000 No | 2025 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 91 | El Salvador | 400.43 1000 No | 2025 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 92 | Equatorial Guinea | 374.24 1000 No | 2025 | up 33.9% | rising |
| 93 | Mongolia | 367.68 1000 No | 2025 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 94 | Dominican Republic | 366.71 1000 No | 2025 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 95 | Mauritania | 359.68 1000 No | 2025 | up 18.5% | rising |
| 96 | Panama | 336.25 1000 No | 2025 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 97 | Armenia | 333.8 1000 No | 2025 | down 19.5% | falling |
| 98 | Australia | 308.36 1000 No | 2025 | down 1.5% | falling |
| 99 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 287.38 1000 No | 2025 | down 20.5% | falling |
| 100 | Costa Rica | 259.78 1000 No | 2025 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 101 | Lesotho | 229.84 1000 No | 2025 | up 9.6% | falling |
| 102 | Canada | 226.35 1000 No | 2025 | down 25.5% | falling |
| 103 | Jamaica | 217.45 1000 No | 2025 | down 4.4% | falling |
| 104 | Libya | 212.55 1000 No | 2025 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 105 | Gambia | 207.93 1000 No | 2025 | up 22.0% | rising |
| 106 | Namibia | 207.84 1000 No | 2025 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 107 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 199.29 1000 No | 2025 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 108 | Hungary | 196.29 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 109 | Gabon | 194.56 1000 No | 2025 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 110 | Solomon Islands | 187.74 1000 No | 2025 | up 39.9% | rising |
| 111 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 171.93 1000 No | 2025 | down 12.9% | falling |
| 112 | Bhutan | 168.63 1000 No | 2025 | down 12.7% | rising |
| 113 | Oman | 163.62 1000 No | 2025 | up 41.9% | rising |
| 114 | Botswana | 163.3 1000 No | 2025 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 115 | New Zealand | 156.06 1000 No | 2025 | up 6.7% | flat |
| 116 | Bulgaria | 145.9 1000 No | 2025 | down 29.6% | falling |
| 117 | Czechia | 143.1 1000 No | 2025 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 118 | Portugal | 137.7 1000 No | 2025 | down 23.6% | falling |
| 119 | Uruguay | 134.81 1000 No | 2025 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 120 | Fiji | 131.66 1000 No | 2025 | down 8.9% | rising |
| 121 | Austria | 122.88 1000 No | 2025 | down 35.5% | falling |
| 122 | Switzerland | 108.64 1000 No | 2025 | down 30.0% | falling |
| 123 | United Arab Emirates | 105.39 1000 No | 2025 | down 31.4% | rising |
| 124 | Ireland | 103.59 1000 No | 2025 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 125 | Comoros | 100.33 1000 No | 2025 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 126 | Sweden | 92.5 1000 No | 2025 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 127 | Finland | 90.94 1000 No | 2025 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 128 | Jordan | 83.76 1000 No | 2025 | up 19.6% | rising |
| 129 | Norway | 73.96 1000 No | 2025 | up 32.5% | falling |
| 130 | Croatia | 71.19 1000 No | 2025 | down 50.7% | falling |
| 131 | Palestine, State of | 70.16 1000 No | 2022 | down 27.6% | rising |
| 132 | Lithuania | 66.21 1000 No | 2025 | down 45.3% | volatile |
| 133 | Latvia | 59.23 1000 No | 2025 | down 17.9% | falling |
| 134 | North Macedonia | 58.66 1000 No | 2025 | down 49.0% | falling |
| 135 | Lebanon | 57.45 1000 No | 2023 | down 15.5% | flat |
| 136 | Slovak Republic | 57.18 1000 No | 2025 | down 39.4% | falling |
| 137 | Kuwait | 55.96 1000 No | 2025 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 138 | Vanuatu | 51.07 1000 No | 2025 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 139 | Denmark | 50.38 1000 No | 2025 | down 25.6% | falling |
| 140 | Belgium | 49.85 1000 No | 2025 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 141 | Western Sahara | 44.83 1000 No | 2025 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 142 | Eswatini | 41.24 1000 No | 2025 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 143 | Qatar | 37.29 1000 No | 2025 | up 66.2% | rising |
| 144 | Slovenia | 36.91 1000 No | 2025 | down 43.5% | falling |
| 145 | Guyana | 35.13 1000 No | 2025 | down 20.8% | falling |
| 146 | Israel | 33.28 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.2% | falling |
| 147 | Trinidad and Tobago | 31.29 1000 No | 2025 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 148 | Maldives | 29.4 1000 No | 2025 | up 73.1% | rising |
| 149 | Mauritius | 28.21 1000 No | 2025 | down 32.4% | falling |
| 150 | Belize | 27.1 1000 No | 2025 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 151 | Estonia | 20.11 1000 No | 2025 | down 21.9% | volatile |
| 152 | Suriname | 16.53 1000 No | 2025 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 153 | Cyprus | 15.78 1000 No | 2025 | down 29.3% | falling |
| 154 | Samoa | 14.75 1000 No | 2025 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 155 | Puerto Rico | 13.15 1000 No | 2025 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 156 | Montenegro | 10.91 1000 No | 2025 | down 36.0% | falling |
| 157 | Iceland | 8.56 1000 No | 2025 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 158 | Bahrain | 7.79 1000 No | 2025 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 159 | Tonga | 7.78 1000 No | 2025 | down 32.9% | falling |
| 160 | Saint Lucia | 6.89 1000 No | 2025 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 161 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 6.63 1000 No | 2025 | down 22.8% | falling |
| 162 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4 1000 No | 2025 | down 21.1% | falling |
| 163 | Sao Tome and Principe | 3.84 1000 No | 2025 | up 14.6% | flat |
| 164 | Singapore | 3.35 1000 No | 2025 | down 14.5% | falling |
| 165 | Luxembourg | 2.9 1000 No | 2025 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 166 | Brunei Darussalam | 2.7 1000 No | 2025 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 167 | Malta | 2.59 1000 No | 2025 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 168 | Djibouti | 2.28 1000 No | 2025 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 169 | New Caledonia | 2.08 1000 No | 2025 | up 14.3% | falling |
| 170 | French Polynesia | 2.04 1000 No | 2025 | down 23.6% | flat |
| 171 | Barbados | 1.76 1000 No | 2025 | down 54.3% | falling |
| 172 | Bahamas | 1.72 1000 No | 2025 | down 53.6% | falling |
| 173 | China, Macao SAR | 1.54 1000 No | 2025 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 174 | Guam | 1.15 1000 No | 2025 | down 19.6% | falling |
| 175 | United States Virgin Islands | 0.54 1000 No | 2025 | down 37.2% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 927,678 1000 No
- Southern Asia 319,264 1000 No
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 307,563 1000 No
- Africa 263,328 1000 No
- Sub-Saharan Africa 248,519 1000 No
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 187,655 1000 No
- Eastern Asia 173,399 1000 No
- Eastern Africa 127,014 1000 No
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 117,032 1000 No
- Türkiye 4,899 1000 No
- South-Eastern Asia 92,835 1000 No
- Western Africa 78,627 1000 No
About this data
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.