World Bank Group · Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP)
Agriculture share of GDP by country
How much of the economy comes from farming, forestry and fishing?
Of the 158 countries compared in 2025, Niger had the highest reading, 47.589%, and Singapore had the lowest reading, 0.025%. In the middle country the figure was 6.572%. Among the 70 countries measured in every edition since 1975, the middle one moved from 25.865% to 9.109%.
Share
Agriculture share of GDP · 2025
Context statistic
Highest of 158Niger
47.589%012025 · position · derived
The highest and the lowest
The three countries with the highest values of 158 compared, the three with the lowest, and the highest on each continent. This statistic has no better end, so no country is shown as leading.
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Lowest in 2025
- 158
Singapore0.025% - 157
Luxembourg0.232% - 156
Bahrain0.241%
Positions out of 158. This statistic has no better end: the two ends describe size, not success.
02Every measured country
Agriculture share of GDP on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value. This statistic has no better end, so the shades describe size, not success.
- 0.025–1.960%
- 2.065–4.356%
- 4.403–8.939%
- 9.090–17.084%
- 19.943–47.589%
- No reading in 2025 (48 measured in an earlier edition)
- Africa
19.953%
the middle country, of 51 measured · 55 members
Niger47.589%
Libya1.501%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Asia
7.999%
the middle country, of 37 measured · 52 members
Myanmar25.300%Singapore0.025%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Americas
5.533%
the middle country, of 25 measured · 48 members
Haiti15.807%
Puerto Rico0.686%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Europe
2.271%
the middle country, of 41 measured · 49 members
Albania14.797%Luxembourg0.232%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Oceania
4 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, Fiji, Micronesia, Samoa.
Micronesia24.163%
Australia2.267%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
21 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Western Africa
22.949%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Niger47.589%
Cabo Verde5.037%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Eastern Africa
22.909%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Comoros36.578%
Djibouti2.272%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Asia
12.552%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Pakistan23.021%
Maldives4.591%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Northern Africa
12.529%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
Sudan29.357%Libya1.501%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Middle Africa
12.190%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Chad36.337%
Equatorial Guinea3.207%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- South-eastern Asia
10.195%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 11 members
Myanmar25.300%Singapore0.025%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- South America
7.057%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 12 members
Paraguay11.641%
Chile3.453%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Southern Africa
6.408%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Namibia6.989%
Botswana1.781%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Central America
4.403%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 8 members
Nicaragua14.477%
Panama2.618%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Western Asia
3.111%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 19 members
Armenia7.935%Bahrain0.241%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Southern Europe
3.058%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 17 members
Albania14.797%
Malta0.469%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Caribbean
2.988%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 24 members
Haiti15.807%Puerto Rico0.686%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Eastern Europe
2.828%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Ukraine7.573%
Slovakia1.593%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Northern Europe
1.644%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Latvia4.010%
United Kingdom0.640%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Western Europe
0.871%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Netherlands1.683%Luxembourg0.232%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Australia and New Zealand
1 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia.
Australia2.267%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Central Asia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan16.560%
Kazakhstan3.744%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Eastern Asia
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: China, Mongolia, South Korea.
Mongolia8.939%
South Korea1.464%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Melanesia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji.
Fiji14.046%Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Micronesia.
Micronesia24.163%Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Polynesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa.
Samoa9.090%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
158 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 6.572%; a quarter are above 15.555%, and a quarter below 2.594%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
Log scale: each gridline is ten times the one before, so countries of very different sizes can be seen on one line.
04All 206 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. Neither end is better, and the usual development-economics reading of a high share — “not yet industrialised” — is an opinion, and wrong about the countries that farm because they are good at it. A low share is equally the signature of a rich diversified economy and of a city-state with no farmland: Singapore and Aruba both read 0.0.
Showing 25 of 206 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
051975–2025 · 51 reference years
Over time
Each point is one reference year from 1975.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 70 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | 6.572% | 2.594% – 15.555% | 9.109% |
| 2024 | 187 | 6.559% | 2.372% – 15.963% | 8.990% |
| 2023 | 194 | 6.310% | 2.138% – 16.240% | 8.874% |
| 2022 | 196 | 6.663% | 1.957% – 16.545% | 8.897% |
| 2021 | 197 | 6.770% | 1.944% – 16.068% | 9.135% |
| 2020 | 198 | 7.154% | 2.158% – 16.088% | 9.316% |
| 2019 | 199 | 6.411% | 1.997% – 15.609% | 7.958% |
| 2018 | 199 | 6.004% | 2.064% – 16.156% | 7.619% |
| 2017 | 200 | 6.056% | 2.005% – 16.289% | 8.261% |
| 2016 | 200 | 6.290% | 2.069% – 16.445% | 8.260% |
| 2015 | 200 | 6.346% | 2.059% – 16.344% | 8.254% |
| 2014 | 199 | 6.735% | 2.222% – 16.750% | 8.527% |
| 2013 | 200 | 6.825% | 2.129% – 16.335% | 8.575% |
| 2012 | 199 | 6.788% | 2.072% – 16.656% | 8.703% |
| 2011 | 197 | 7.084% | 2.153% – 16.565% | 9.126% |
| 2010 | 196 | 6.914% | 2.191% – 16.987% | 9.274% |
| 2009 | 196 | 7.240% | 2.291% – 16.367% | 9.630% |
| 2008 | 195 | 7.161% | 2.323% – 16.784% | 10.041% |
| 2007 | 192 | 7.265% | 2.320% – 17.921% | 9.931% |
| 2006 | 192 | 7.479% | 2.360% – 17.234% | 9.939% |
| 2005 | 188 | 8.392% | 2.753% – 18.039% | 9.947% |
| 2004 | 188 | 8.851% | 3.077% – 18.407% | 10.886% |
| 2003 | 188 | 9.194% | 2.815% – 19.374% | 10.971% |
| 2002 | 186 | 8.929% | 2.988% – 19.707% | 10.668% |
| 2001 | 183 | 9.095% | 3.207% – 20.923% | 10.922% |
| 2000 | 184 | 9.610% | 3.147% – 21.478% | 11.565% |
| 1999 | 175 | 10.842% | 3.423% – 23.009% | 13.491% |
| 1998 | 174 | 11.290% | 3.895% – 23.995% | 14.429% |
| 1997 | 173 | 11.328% | 3.907% – 23.246% | 14.308% |
| 1996 | 170 | 12.151% | 4.579% – 23.496% | 16.321% |
| 1995 | 168 | 12.470% | 4.742% – 24.102% | 14.054% |
| 1994 | 145 | 14.832% | 6.086% – 27.428% | 15.589% |
| 1993 | 138 | 14.838% | 5.787% – 27.268% | 15.459% |
| 1992 | 136 | 14.886% | 6.636% – 27.732% | 15.517% |
| 1991 | 134 | 15.463% | 6.748% – 28.359% | 15.908% |
| 1990 | 133 | 15.787% | 6.881% – 27.889% | 16.540% |
| 1989 | 119 | 16.211% | 8.364% – 27.977% | 18.196% |
| 1988 | 116 | 17.072% | 8.819% – 28.162% | 17.790% |
| 1987 | 115 | 17.646% | 7.763% – 27.237% | 18.263% |
| 1986 | 112 | 17.150% | 7.335% – 27.707% | 19.188% |
| 1985 | 110 | 16.393% | 6.986% – 26.818% | 17.923% |
| 1984 | 109 | 17.201% | 6.917% – 28.005% | 18.268% |
| 1983 | 109 | 16.259% | 7.435% – 28.476% | 18.669% |
| 1982 | 106 | 16.538% | 7.328% – 27.391% | 18.672% |
| 1981 | 106 | 17.206% | 7.391% – 27.847% | 20.179% |
| 1980 | 102 | 17.746% | 7.422% – 27.811% | 20.020% |
| 1979 | 95 | 18.501% | 8.050% – 28.959% | 21.623% |
| 1978 | 93 | 20.094% | 8.253% – 30.785% | 23.218% |
| 1977 | 92 | 21.422% | 9.039% – 31.544% | 24.524% |
| 1976 | 87 | 21.025% | 8.526% – 32.413% | 24.147% |
| 1975 | 84 | 23.679% | 8.172% – 31.013% | 25.865% |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Rose most
before → after158 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 187 to 158 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Agriculture share of GDP in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
79.042%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added (% of GDP)
Lowest reading on record
0.011%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added (% of GDP)
Biggest rise between editions
+29.416
9.507% → 38.922%
Biggest fall between editions
−23.282
56.544% → 33.262%
Biggest change since first measured
+15.854
9.387% → 25.241%
Highest most often
10 of 51
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About Agriculture share of GDP
This is how much of a country’s output comes from farming, forestry and fishing, as a share of GDP. It says what an economy is made of — not how well it is doing.
What the number is: Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added (% of GDP).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Economy & Innovation and Food & Agriculture, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Economy & InnovationFood & AgricultureWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where Agriculture share of GDP is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Employment in AgricultureILO · 148 countries in commonρ 0.88
- Vulnerable EmploymentKeyILO · 148 countries in commonρ 0.87
- Self-Employment RateILO · 148 countries in commonρ 0.87
Moves against
Where Agriculture share of GDP is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)GGDC · 145 countries in commonρ −0.88
- Labour Productivity per Hour WorkedILO · 148 countries in commonρ −0.87
- GDP per Person EmployedWorld Bank Group · 148 countries in commonρ −0.87
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 369 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
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The subject
The countries at either end
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11Questions
Agriculture share of GDP: questions and answers
Which country has the highest Agriculture share of GDP?
Niger, at 47.589%, among the 158 countries compared in 2025.
Which country has the lowest Agriculture share of GDP?
Singapore, at 0.025%, among the 158 countries compared in 2025.
How many countries does the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) cover?
158 in 2025, and 206 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 84 to 200 between editions.
What is the world average Agriculture share of GDP?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 158 compared in 2025, the figure was 6.572%.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No. World Bank Group publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) published?
This site holds 51 reference years, 1975–2025, all recalculated in World Bank Group’s 2026 report on one method — not 51 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS). 42 country-years recorded as exactly 0 are treated as missing; the 0.0 values that remain are real figures rounded to one decimal by the Bank. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) — World Bank Group
Pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS). 42 country-years recorded as exactly 0 are treated as missing; the 0.0 values that remain are real figures rounded to one decimal by the Bank.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-06.
How this page reads the numbers
- World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- This statistic has no better end, so the page describes higher and lower values and never calls a country a leader.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Agriculture share of GDP by country: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/agriculture-value-added