Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — 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 — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 94.83 % in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the lowest is 4.31 % in Mali.
The median across all reporting countries is 32.8 %, and the mean is 38.87 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 22.
Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 26 fell. The largest increase was in Bangladesh (up 123.3%), and the largest decrease in Honduras (down 70.4%).
Share of formal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 94.83 % | 2024 | up 23.9% | flat |
| 1 | Türkiye | 75.76 % | 2024 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 2 | North Macedonia | 92.23 % | 2024 | up 13.4% | flat |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 45.66 % | 2022 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 3 | South Africa | 90.45 % | 2024 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 3 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 9.7 % | 2024 | down 12.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Mongolia | 78.93 % | 2024 | up 41.3% | rising |
| 5 | Mauritius | 74.91 % | 2024 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 6 | Uruguay | 66.49 % | 2024 | down 11.2% | falling |
| 7 | Georgia | 61.57 % | 2024 | down 2.9% | flat |
| 8 | Serbia | 59.79 % | 2019 | down 38.6% | falling |
| 9 | Brazil | 59.02 % | 2024 | down 32.4% | falling |
| 10 | Grenada | 58.88 % | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 11 | Costa Rica | 55.96 % | 2024 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 12 | Jordan | 53.4 % | 2023 | up 34.2% | rising |
| 13 | Dominican Republic | 47.38 % | 2024 | down 48.5% | falling |
| 14 | Brunei Darussalam | 45.57 % | 2023 | up 12.0% | flat |
| 15 | Thailand | 41.92 % | 2024 | up 43.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Panama | 37.98 % | 2024 | down 30.7% | falling |
| 17 | Mexico | 34.11 % | 2024 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 18 | Colombia | 33.27 % | 2024 | down 58.2% | falling |
| 19 | Ecuador | 33.2 % | 2024 | down 39.7% | falling |
| 20 | Zambia | 32.41 % | 2023 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 21 | Palestine, State of | 32.37 % | 2024 | up 45.6% | falling |
| 22 | Namibia | 29.79 % | 2018 | down 25.1% | falling |
| 23 | El Salvador | 28.66 % | 2024 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 24 | Egypt | 25.04 % | 2024 | down 45.5% | falling |
| 25 | Sri Lanka | 23.34 % | 2023 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 26 | Zimbabwe | 21.45 % | 2024 | down 46.8% | falling |
| 27 | Rwanda | 20.98 % | 2024 | down 22.3% | falling |
| 28 | Botswana | 20.1 % | 2024 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 29 | Peru | 19.86 % | 2024 | down 21.7% | volatile |
| 30 | Honduras | 18.61 % | 2017 | down 70.4% | falling |
| 31 | Bangladesh | 16.68 % | 2024 | up 123.3% | rising |
| 32 | Guatemala | 16.52 % | 2023 | down 24.9% | falling |
| 33 | Kyrgyzstan | 16 % | 2023 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 34 | Myanmar | 15.3 % | 2020 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 35 | India | 14.39 % | 2024 | up 28.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Pakistan | 11.95 % | 2025 | down 49.6% | volatile |
| 37 | Senegal | 7.12 % | 2024 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 38 | Uganda | 6.65 % | 2021 | down 56.1% | falling |
| 39 | Mali | 4.31 % | 2023 | down 45.0% | 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.