Share of informal 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 informal 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 99.44 % in Bolivia (Plurinational State of); the lowest is 35.44 % in South Africa.
The median across all reporting countries is 92.42 %, and the mean is 84.3 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.
Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 26 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 43.7%), and the largest decrease in North Macedonia (down 43.8%).
Share of informal employment by industry and sex: Agriculture — Value: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 99.44 % | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 1 | Uganda | 99.19 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 2 | Botswana | 99.08 % | 2024 | up 3.6% | flat |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 98.93 % | 2022 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 3 | Rwanda | 98.99 % | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 3 | Türkiye | 85.76 % | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 4 | Pakistan | 98.95 % | 2025 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 5 | India | 98.74 % | 2024 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 6 | Georgia | 98.54 % | 2024 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 7 | Mali | 98.34 % | 2023 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 8 | Honduras | 97.61 % | 2017 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 9 | Zambia | 97.48 % | 2023 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 96.88 % | 2024 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 11 | Senegal | 96.47 % | 2024 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 12 | Zimbabwe | 96.32 % | 2024 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 13 | Thailand | 95.9 % | 2024 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 14 | El Salvador | 95.85 % | 2024 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 15 | Palestine, State of | 95.2 % | 2024 | down 1.9% | falling |
| 16 | Guatemala | 94.08 % | 2023 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 17 | Peru | 93.74 % | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 18 | Jordan | 93.63 % | 2023 | up 3.6% | flat |
| 19 | Ecuador | 92.44 % | 2024 | up 23.0% | flat |
| 20 | Sri Lanka | 92.4 % | 2023 | up 3.7% | flat |
| 21 | Panama | 91.52 % | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 22 | Dominican Republic | 90.27 % | 2024 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 23 | Mexico | 89.42 % | 2024 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 24 | Grenada | 87.35 % | 2023 | up 5.9% | flat |
| 25 | Namibia | 87.26 % | 2018 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 26 | Colombia | 87.08 % | 2024 | up 2.5% | flat |
| 27 | Egypt | 83.55 % | 2024 | down 12.6% | flat |
| 28 | Myanmar | 82.2 % | 2020 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 29 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 77.39 % | 2024 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 30 | Brazil | 73.86 % | 2024 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 31 | Kyrgyzstan | 65.95 % | 2023 | up 4.9% | flat |
| 32 | Mongolia | 60.09 % | 2024 | down 38.5% | flat |
| 33 | Costa Rica | 58.73 % | 2024 | down 14.3% | falling |
| 34 | Brunei Darussalam | 57.86 % | 2023 | down 39.9% | falling |
| 35 | Mauritius | 57.16 % | 2024 | down 27.4% | falling |
| 36 | North Macedonia | 49.26 % | 2024 | down 43.8% | falling |
| 37 | Serbia | 48.49 % | 2019 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 38 | Uruguay | 43.84 % | 2024 | up 43.7% | falling |
| 39 | South Africa | 35.44 % | 2024 | down 1.0% | 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.