Dataset · FAO

Agriculture Orientation Index

24 years, 2001–2024 · 132 countries · 3 measures

This compares how much of its budget a government spends on agriculture with how big agriculture actually is in its economy. A value of 1.0 means the two match; below 1.0 means farming gets less public money than its share of the economy would suggest.

This site holds every year from 2001 to 2024, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Agriculture Orientation Index, 2024
Held: 24 years · 3,901 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

24years held
2001–2024years
3,901rows across every year
132countries in the newest188 across every year
3measures per country
CC BY 4.0licence

0124 years

Every year

Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2001bar height: countries covered, up to 1832024

Every year of Agriculture Orientation Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2024Newest	132	−34	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2023	166	−7	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2022	173	−2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2021	175	−3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2020	178	−4	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2019	182	+1 −2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2018	183	+2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2017	181	+3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2016	178	+4 −2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2015	176	+3 −2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2014	175	+3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2013	172	+3 −3	September 11, 2026	CSV

Show all 24 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2012	172	+6 −1	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2011	167	+3	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2010	164	+5	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2009	159	+4	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2008	155	+4 −2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2007	153	+1	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2006	152	+2	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2005	150	+3 −1	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2004	148	+6	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2003	142	+6	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2002	136	+9 −5	September 11, 2026	CSV
Agriculture Orientation Index, 2001	132	—	September 11, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: agriculture-orientation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Agriculture Orientation Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	132
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	132
Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size)`agriculture_orientation`Headline	The headline figure: Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.03Ghana5.38Singaporemiddle 0.31	73
Agriculture share of government spending (%)`spending_share`Measure	Share of total government spending that goes to agriculture, forestry and fishing, in %.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.14Belgium9.98Bhutanmiddle 1.62	113
Agriculture share of GDP (%)`gdp_share`Measure	Size of agriculture, forestry and fishing in the economy, as value added in % of GDP.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.03Singapore49.73Nigermiddle 5.52	129

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03188 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Agriculture Orientation Index, by continent.
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Africa	46	47	47	46	49	50	49	48	48	48	45	33
Americas	29	30	31	33	33	33	33	32	32	32	32	28
Asia	44	45	45	46	46	46	46	46	44	42	39	27
Europe	39	39	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	37
Oceania	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	12	11	11	10	7
All	172	175	176	178	181	183	182	178	175	173	166	132

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Who joined and who left

2024
− Afghanistan− Andorra− Burundi− Bahrain− Belarus− Switzerland− Cabo Verde− Djibouti− Dominica− Fiji− Gabon− Guinea− Equatorial Guinea− Guyana− Hong Kong− Haiti− India− Jordan− Japan− Cambodia− Kiribati− South Korea− Laos− Lebanon− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mali− Mauritania− Nicaragua− Papua New Guinea− Somalia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Vietnam
2023
− Cameroon− Gambia− Kuwait− South Sudan− Syria− Timor-Leste− Tuvalu
2022
− Iran− Iraq
2021
− Micronesia− Myanmar− Qatar
2020
− Comoros− Cuba− Marshall Islands− Palau
2019
+ Comoros− Republic of the Congo− Sudan
2018
+ Andorra+ Sudan
2017
+ Guinea-Bissau+ Liberia+ Somalia

Not in this dataset · 37 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
fao.org
2 · Their file
Agriculture Orientation Index 2024
SDG_BulkDownloads_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip
3 · Read by this site
September 11, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
24 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as agriculture-orientation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/agriculture-orientationA key for Food & Agriculture in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

SDG indicator 2.a.1, from FAOSTAT's SDG Indicators domain.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 11, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
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Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Agriculture Orientation Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Agriculture Orientation Index, 2001–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-orientation

The publisher’s own citation: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions