Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — Female — 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 — Female — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 95.77 % in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the lowest is 1 % in Mali.
The median across all reporting countries is 22.7 %, and the mean is 33.2 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 96.
Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 364.9%), and the largest decrease in Honduras (down 82.8%).
Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 95.77 % | 2024 | up 18.4% | flat |
| 1 | Türkiye | 69.18 % | 2024 | up 26.5% | rising |
| 2 | North Macedonia | 94.92 % | 2024 | up 6.9% | flat |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 42.44 % | 2022 | up 39.7% | rising |
| 3 | South Africa | 89.96 % | 2024 | down 0.9% | rising |
| 3 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 4.32 % | 2024 | down 28.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Mongolia | 73.67 % | 2024 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 5 | Mauritius | 68.5 % | 2024 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 6 | Grenada | 62.23 % | 2023 | up 20.4% | rising |
| 7 | Serbia | 58.94 % | 2019 | down 39.7% | falling |
| 8 | Jordan | 58.6 % | 2023 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 9 | Uruguay | 57.59 % | 2024 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 10 | Georgia | 56.65 % | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 11 | Brazil | 51.58 % | 2024 | down 37.1% | falling |
| 12 | Costa Rica | 45.49 % | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 13 | Brunei Darussalam | 44.28 % | 2023 | down 23.9% | falling |
| 14 | Thailand | 36.47 % | 2024 | up 36.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Dominican Republic | 36.22 % | 2024 | down 61.6% | falling |
| 16 | Namibia | 25.52 % | 2018 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 17 | Panama | 25.33 % | 2024 | down 42.4% | falling |
| 18 | Mexico | 24.73 % | 2024 | up 5.2% | flat |
| 19 | Colombia | 23.06 % | 2024 | down 71.4% | falling |
| 20 | Zambia | 22.34 % | 2023 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 21 | Ecuador | 21.5 % | 2024 | down 54.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Palestine, State of | 20.96 % | 2024 | up 158.1% | volatile |
| 23 | Egypt | 20.12 % | 2024 | down 42.0% | falling |
| 24 | Botswana | 19.6 % | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Rwanda | 19.05 % | 2024 | down 26.3% | falling |
| 26 | El Salvador | 18.19 % | 2024 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 27 | Sri Lanka | 15.8 % | 2023 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 28 | Myanmar | 13.13 % | 2020 | up 46.5% | rising |
| 29 | Zimbabwe | 13.1 % | 2024 | down 17.4% | falling |
| 30 | Kyrgyzstan | 12.69 % | 2023 | down 4.7% | falling |
| 31 | Peru | 12.44 % | 2024 | down 26.2% | volatile |
| 32 | Honduras | 9.31 % | 2017 | down 82.8% | falling |
| 33 | Guatemala | 7.05 % | 2023 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 34 | India | 6.57 % | 2024 | up 1.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Bangladesh | 6.45 % | 2024 | up 108.1% | flat |
| 36 | Senegal | 4.61 % | 2024 | down 45.7% | rising |
| 37 | Uganda | 3.44 % | 2021 | up 364.9% | volatile |
| 38 | Pakistan | 1.8 % | 2025 | unchanged | volatile |
| 39 | Mali | 1 % | 2023 | down 81.6% | 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.