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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980

1980, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 covers 102 countries. Uganda is highest, at 71.763; Brunei is lowest, at 0.052. The middle country reads 17.746. Against 1979, 93 values changed (26 up, 67 down), 9 countries joined, 2 left.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1980

HighestUganda

71.763

LowestBrunei

0.052

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 102 countries · select a heading to sort

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa71.763
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa64.477
3GhanaGHAWestern Africa57.920
4NepalNPLSouthern Asia57.899
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa57.572
6MaliMLIWestern Africa46.585
7RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.847
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa45.732
9NigerNERWestern Africa43.057
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa42.195
11BhutanBTNSouthern Asia39.829
12El SalvadorSLVCentral America37.958
13BeninBENWestern Africa35.433
14IndiaINDSouthern Asia34.409
15TongaTONPolynesia33.403
16Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia33.119
17BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia32.824
18MalawiMWIEastern Africa32.629
19Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa30.376
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa29.914
21ChinaCHNEastern Asia29.582
22ParaguayPRYSouth America29.465
23ComorosCOMEastern Africa29.375
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.677
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa28.446

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda71.763
  2. 2Somalia64.477
  3. 3Ghana57.920
  4. 4Nepal57.899
  5. 5Burundi57.572

Lowest

  1. 102Brunei0.052
  2. 101United Arab Emirates0.490
  3. 100Qatar0.523
  4. 99Saudi Arabia0.954
  5. 98Singapore1.509

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.746. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −2countries joined / left
  • 93values changed, of 93 in both
  • 26 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Somalia51.141 → 64.477+13.336
  • Uganda65.218 → 71.763+6.545
  • Chad41.266 → 45.732+4.466
  • Togo22.603 → 26.468+3.865
  • Burundi53.832 → 57.572+3.740

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Bhutan+ Comoros+ Cabo Verde+ Georgia+ Malawi+ Namibia+ Qatar+ Sweden− Madagascar− Peru

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1980.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 102 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1980). Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-value-added/1980

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07Questions

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Agriculture share of GDP in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980?

Uganda, at 71.763, of the 102 countries in the file.

What year does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 cover?

102.

Where can I download Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 2025.

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