Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Agriculture — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Agriculture by country
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and...
What the numbers show
Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Agriculture — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Agriculture is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 64.56 % in South Africa; the lowest is 0.81 % in Uganda.
The median across all reporting countries is 7.58 %, and the mean is 15.7 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 80.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Mongolia (up 1,584.0%), and the largest decrease in Botswana (down 79.0%).
Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Agriculture — Value: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 64.56 % | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 1 | Türkiye | 14.24 % | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 2 | Uruguay | 56.16 % | 2024 | down 19.2% | rising |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 1.07 % | 2022 | up 28.9% | flat |
| 3 | Serbia | 51.51 % | 2019 | up 44.9% | rising |
| 3 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 0.56 % | 2024 | up 21.7% | volatile |
| 4 | North Macedonia | 50.74 % | 2024 | up 310.5% | rising |
| 5 | Mauritius | 42.84 % | 2024 | up 101.1% | rising |
| 6 | Brunei Darussalam | 42.14 % | 2023 | up 1,032.8% | rising |
| 7 | Costa Rica | 41.27 % | 2024 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 8 | Mongolia | 39.91 % | 2024 | up 1,584.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Kyrgyzstan | 34.05 % | 2023 | down 8.3% | falling |
| 10 | Brazil | 26.14 % | 2024 | up 19.8% | rising |
| 11 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22.61 % | 2024 | up 123.6% | rising |
| 12 | Myanmar | 17.8 % | 2020 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 13 | Egypt | 16.45 % | 2024 | up 275.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Colombia | 12.92 % | 2024 | down 14.0% | flat |
| 15 | Namibia | 12.74 % | 2018 | down 31.3% | falling |
| 16 | Grenada | 12.65 % | 2023 | down 27.6% | falling |
| 17 | Mexico | 10.58 % | 2024 | up 65.6% | rising |
| 18 | Dominican Republic | 9.73 % | 2024 | down 49.0% | falling |
| 19 | Panama | 8.48 % | 2024 | down 37.8% | falling |
| 20 | Sri Lanka | 7.6 % | 2023 | down 30.1% | falling |
| 21 | Ecuador | 7.56 % | 2024 | down 69.5% | rising |
| 22 | Jordan | 6.37 % | 2023 | down 33.5% | falling |
| 23 | Peru | 6.26 % | 2024 | up 16.1% | rising |
| 24 | Guatemala | 5.92 % | 2023 | up 69.1% | falling |
| 25 | Palestine, State of | 4.8 % | 2024 | up 64.9% | volatile |
| 26 | El Salvador | 4.15 % | 2024 | up 56.6% | rising |
| 27 | Thailand | 4.1 % | 2024 | down 33.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Zimbabwe | 3.68 % | 2024 | up 53.3% | falling |
| 29 | Senegal | 3.53 % | 2024 | down 30.2% | volatile |
| 30 | Bangladesh | 3.12 % | 2024 | up 37.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Zambia | 2.52 % | 2023 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 32 | Honduras | 2.39 % | 2017 | down 73.5% | volatile |
| 33 | Mali | 1.66 % | 2023 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 34 | Georgia | 1.46 % | 2024 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 35 | India | 1.26 % | 2024 | up 162.5% | rising |
| 36 | Pakistan | 1.05 % | 2025 | up 34.6% | falling |
| 37 | Rwanda | 1.01 % | 2024 | down 37.7% | volatile |
| 38 | Botswana | 0.92 % | 2024 | down 79.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Uganda | 0.81 % | 2021 | up 138.2% | volatile |
About this data
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and on the recommendations of an expert consultation held in December 2023, and covers key dimensions including economic participation, governance, agency, social norms, assets and services, education, health, and nutrition. Indicator selection was informed by expert judgment and by the availability of data with sufficient geographic and temporal coverage to enable meaningful comparisons across regions and over time. While most indicators are produced and published by FAO and other international organizations, the objective of this domain is to provide a one-stop shop for sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems.