Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — Male — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems 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: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — Male — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 94.65 % in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the lowest is 10.2 % in Senegal.
The median across all reporting countries is 46.5 %, and the mean is 45.98 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9.
Over the past decade 17 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Bangladesh (up 83.6%), and the largest decrease in Uganda (down 64.7%).
Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 94.65 % | 2024 | up 26.6% | flat |
| 1 | Türkiye | 78.71 % | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 2 | South Africa | 91.24 % | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 51.05 % | 2022 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 3 | North Macedonia | 90.44 % | 2024 | up 18.1% | flat |
| 3 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 22.02 % | 2024 | up 7.5% | falling |
| 4 | Mongolia | 86.61 % | 2024 | up 66.2% | rising |
| 5 | Mauritius | 81.34 % | 2024 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 6 | Uruguay | 74.16 % | 2024 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 7 | Costa Rica | 68.09 % | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 8 | Georgia | 67.93 % | 2024 | down 4.0% | flat |
| 9 | Brazil | 66.01 % | 2024 | down 28.5% | falling |
| 10 | Serbia | 60.89 % | 2019 | down 37.3% | falling |
| 11 | Dominican Republic | 60.47 % | 2024 | down 33.3% | flat |
| 12 | Grenada | 60.44 % | 2023 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 13 | Panama | 56.27 % | 2024 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 14 | Jordan | 53.1 % | 2023 | up 36.6% | rising |
| 15 | Thailand | 50.46 % | 2024 | up 53.3% | rising |
| 16 | El Salvador | 50.09 % | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 17 | Colombia | 48.15 % | 2024 | down 38.4% | falling |
| 18 | Brunei Darussalam | 48.14 % | 2023 | up 62.0% | rising |
| 19 | Ecuador | 47.64 % | 2024 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 20 | Mexico | 45.35 % | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 21 | Honduras | 42.46 % | 2017 | down 45.9% | falling |
| 22 | Namibia | 41.46 % | 2018 | down 14.0% | falling |
| 23 | Zambia | 40.09 % | 2023 | up 14.1% | flat |
| 24 | Guatemala | 37.2 % | 2023 | down 21.2% | falling |
| 25 | Palestine, State of | 33.68 % | 2024 | up 38.6% | falling |
| 26 | Peru | 33.47 % | 2024 | down 17.7% | falling |
| 27 | Sri Lanka | 29.19 % | 2023 | up 10.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Zimbabwe | 28.51 % | 2024 | down 42.6% | falling |
| 29 | Egypt | 25.44 % | 2024 | down 45.5% | falling |
| 30 | Rwanda | 22.62 % | 2024 | down 19.4% | falling |
| 31 | Botswana | 19.87 % | 2024 | down 49.0% | falling |
| 32 | Bangladesh | 18.98 % | 2024 | up 83.6% | rising |
| 33 | Kyrgyzstan | 18.88 % | 2023 | down 3.3% | falling |
| 34 | India | 18.58 % | 2024 | up 36.5% | volatile |
| 35 | Myanmar | 18.4 % | 2020 | up 49.2% | rising |
| 36 | Pakistan | 13.81 % | 2025 | down 50.6% | falling |
| 37 | Uganda | 13.8 % | 2021 | down 64.7% | volatile |
| 38 | Mali | 11.1 % | 2023 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 39 | Senegal | 10.2 % | 2024 | down 0.5% | falling |
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.