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Gender Statistics and Maps
The Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Department of FAO provide a host of data relating to gender at the FAOSTAT web site under the Population Domain. The domain provides the long-term series of demographic estimates and projections consisting of (a) Quinquennial series of total population by gender and urban and rural population, and (b) Decennial series of agricultural and non-agricultural population, total economically active population (labour force) by gender and economically active population in agriculture (agricultural labour force) by gender. Some of important facts are given here. Details for the member countries and their groups can be obtained from the web site.
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1950 |
1970 |
1990 |
2000 |
2010 | 1. Agricultural Population in the World (1000) |
1,621,927 |
2,001,885 |
2,465,015 |
2,601,722 |
2,667,219 |
2. Share of Agricultural Population of Developing Countries in the World (%) |
81.39 |
90.28 |
94.50 |
96.09 |
97.12 |
3. Share of Female Labour force of Developing Countries in the World (%) |
68.40 |
69.09 |
73.53 |
75.83 |
78.29 |
4. Female Agriculture Labour Force in the World (1000) |
315,924 |
382,605 |
523,315 |
579,771 |
621,308 |
5. Share of Female Labour Force of Developing Countries in the World |
82.17 |
89.86 |
95.43 |
97.01 |
97.98 |
6. Share of Female in Agriculture Labour Force in Total Agriculture Labour Force (%) |
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6.1 World |
39.01 |
41.13 |
42.69 |
43.55 |
44.16 |
6.2 Developed |
41.07 |
43.77 |
38.38 |
36.13 |
33.73 |
6.3 Developing |
38.59 |
40.85 |
42.93 |
43.83 |
44.44 |
7. Share of Agriculture Labour Force in Total Labour Force (%) |
89.56 |
84.21 |
75.97 |
70.62 |
65.21 |
8. Share of Female Labour Force in Total Agriculture Labour Force (%) |
44.70 |
45.87 |
47.34 |
48.10 |
48.74 |
The Division has also compiled data collected in the agriculture censuses conducted in 80 countries (Statistical Development Series no. 9) during the period 1986 to 1995. Among other details, countries were asked to compile data on holders, farm population and employment by gender. The Division provides guidelines (for details please refer to list of documents) for collection of data to the member countries.
Realising the importance of gender related issues in the process of sustainable agricultural development and the difficulties encountered in the availability and analysis of the data for use of policy makers, the Statistics Division is planning to approach the problem in a more comprehensive manner.
So far the focus of the Division's programme has been on the data derived from agricultural censuses and surveys. While these provide an overview of the structure of gender involvement in the agricultural activity, they do not suffice for providing guidance to policy makers to draft programs for agricultural and rural development. Therefore, in the new approach, it is planned to compile data from all sources (agricultural censuses and surveys as well as household income/expenditure surveys) to understand the role of women in the social, cultural and economic development and their impact on income, consumption, nutritional status etc. Thus, in addition to the traditional focus on the collection and compilation of data on status of holder, employment and population dependent on agriculture by gender, the new approach would attempt cross classifications of the attributes by size of holding, income classes etc. as well as establish linkages with income and consumption levels. In this context it would be necessary to improve the existing concepts for collection of data as well as framing new methods to assess gender contribution in the generation of income. It is also proposed to encourage member countries to re-tabulate existing data from censuses and surveys and to demonstrate their utility in decision making.
Maps
These statistics have been automatically derived from the FAOSTAT database and are under review. The following maps are examples of what will be available soon.
FAOSTAT Gender and Food Security - Subset
DOCUMENTS
1. Statistical Development Series no. 5 (Progamme for the World Census of Agriculture 2000), FAO, Rome 1995;
2. Statistical Development Series no. 6 (Conducting agricultural censuses and surveys), FAO, Rome 1996
3. Statistical Development Series no. 9 (Report on the 1990 World Census of Agriculture, international comparison and primary results by country (1986-1995)), FAO, Rome 1997
4. Statistical Development Series no. 5a (Guidelines on employment - Supplement to the Programme for the WCA 2000), FAO, Rome 1997
5. Guidelines for the improvement of statistics on women, FAO, Rome 1996
6. Improvements of statistics by gender obtained from agricultural surveys: the Latin American and Caribbean experience, International Statistics Institute, 51st Session, Turkey, 1997