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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998

1998, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 covers 174 countries. Sierra Leone is highest, at 59.4021; Singapore is lowest, at 0.1114. The middle country reads 11.2897. Against 1997, 173 values changed (72 up, 101 down), 1 country joined.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1998

HighestSierra Leone

59.4021

LowestSingapore

0.1114

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), 1998, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa59.4021
2EthiopiaETHEastern Africa47.8676
3DR CongoCODMiddle Africa46.5000
4RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.5175
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa44.5387
6CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia44.4800
7SudanSDNNorthern Africa44.3946
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa39.0049
9UgandaUGAEastern Africa38.2510
10NepalNPLSouthern Asia37.3930
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa37.0560
12Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia36.6954
13BeninBENWestern Africa36.5766
14Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa36.5636
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia36.0553
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa36.0141
17NigerNERWestern Africa35.4138
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia33.9388
19GuyanaGUYSouth America33.9059
20Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia33.6921
21MadagascarMDGEastern Africa33.2428
22MongoliaMNGEastern Asia32.4334
23SyriaSYRWestern Asia29.3864
24ComorosCOMEastern Africa29.3758
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa27.9084

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sierra Leone59.4021
  2. 2Ethiopia47.8676
  3. 3DR Congo46.5000
  4. 4Rwanda45.5175
  5. 5Burundi44.5387

Lowest

  1. 174Singapore0.1114
  2. 173Aruba0.4079
  3. 172Kuwait0.4465
  4. 171Qatar0.6858
  5. 170Bermuda0.7000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 11.2897. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 173values changed, of 173 in both
  • 72 · 101rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Faroe Islands

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 1998.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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 (1998). Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/agriculture-value-added/1998

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07Questions

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Agriculture share of GDP in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998?

Sierra Leone, at 59.4021, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 cover?

174.

Where can I download Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998?

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), 1998 the newest?

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

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