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Report year 2003Data year 2003
Agriculture orientation index (1.0 = spending matches sector size)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
24 reference years (2001–2024), covering 132 to 183 countries, SDG indicator 2.a.1 from FAOSTAT's SDG domain, with both components stored beside it. It compares how much of a government's spending goes to agriculture with how much of the economy agriculture actually is: 1.0 means the two match, below 1.0 means agriculture gets less than its economic weight. It is a POLICY measure, not an output measure — nothing else on the site says what a government chooses to spend on. ⚠ IT IS A RATIO OF TWO SHARES, so it rises when farming SHRINKS as well as when spending grows: a country whose agricultural sector contracts can climb this table without spending another penny. That is why both components are stored, and why they should be read together. ⚠ SDG target 2.a asks for this to rise, which is the publisher's own framing and why a higher value sorts first. The FAO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is derived here and labelled as ours.
Agriculture Orientation Index 2003 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Cite as: FAO. FAOSTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
SDG indicator 2.a.1: how much of a government's spending goes to agriculture, measured against how much of the economy agriculture actually is. A value of 1.0 means the two match; below 1.0 means agriculture gets less than its economic weight. The two components are stored beside it. ⚠ IT IS A RATIO OF TWO SHARES, so it rises when farming SHRINKS as well as when spending grows — a country whose agriculture sector contracts can climb this table without spending another penny. Read it with the components. ⚠ SDG target 2.a asks for this to rise, which is why a higher value sorts first. The FAO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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