Labour force in agriculture (%)

LABOUR FORCE IN AGRICULTURE (%)

	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982
WORLD TOTAL	57.39	56.90	56.42	5596	55.50	55.06	54.62	54.19	53.77	53.36	53.49	53.0	52.53
ASIA-PACI (APFSOS)
ASIA
Bangladesh	81.43	80.50	79.58	78.67	77.77	76.89	76.01	75.14	74.28	73.43	73.87	72.81	71.76
Bhutan	94.57	94.56	94.55	94.53	94.52	94.51	94.50	94.49	94.48	94.47
Brunei	12.68	11.55	10.52	9.58	8.73	7.95	7.24	6.60	6.01	5.47	5.10	4.66	4.25
Cambodia	79.01	78.67	78.34	78.01	77.68	77.35	77.03	76.70	76.38	76.06	75.73	75.54	75.35
China	78.33	77.92	77.50	77.08	76.67	76.26	75.85	75.44	75.04	74.64	75.58	75.37	75.16
Hong Kong	4.35	3.86	3.43	3.04	2.70	2.40	2.13	1.89	1.68	1.49	1.32	1.27	1.22
India	70.63	70.52	70.41	70.30	70.19	70.08	69.97	69.86	69.75	69.64	69.70	69.11	68.54
Indonesia	66.29	65.39	64.50	63.63	62.77	61.91	61.07	60.24	59.43	58.62	58.86	58.63	58.40
Japan	19.64	18.53	17.47	16.48	15.55	14.67	13.83	13.05	12.31	11.61	10.95	10.52	10.09
Korea, D. P. Rep.	54.78	53.70	52.65	51.61	50.60	49.61	48.63	47.68	46.74	45.82	44.91	44.18	43.46
Korea, Rep.	49.14	47.78	46.45	45.17	43.92	42.70	41.52	40.37	39.26	38.17	37.11	34.54	32.15
Laos	80.95	80.81	80.66	80.52	80.37	80.23	80.08	79.94	79.79	79.65	79.61	79.47	79.32
Malaysia	53.74	52.28	50.86	49.48	48.13	46.82	45.55	44.31	43.11	41.93	40.80	39.20	37.66
Maldives	66.65	64.64	62.69	60.80	58.96	57.19	55.46	53.79	52.17	50.60	50.43	48.29	46.23
Mongolia	47.83	46.96	46.10	45.26	44.44	43.63	42.84	42.06	41.29	40.54	39.83	38.94	38.07
Myanmar	78.40	78.14	77.88	77.61	77.35	77.09	76.84	76.58	76.32	76.07	75.81	75.55	75.29
Nepal	94.43	94.36	94.30	94.23	94.17	94.10	94.04	93.97	93.90	93.84	95.28	95.27	95.27
Pakistan	58.84	58.94	59.04	59.14	59.24	59.34	59.44	59.54	59.64	59.74	61.80	61.22	60.64
Philippines	57.90	57.31	56.73	56.16	55.59	55.03	54.47	53.92	53.38	52.84	52.30	51.55	50.80
Singapore	3.43	3.17	2.93	2.71	2.50	2.31	2.14	1.98	1.83	1.69	1.65	1.42	1.22
Sri Lanka	55.25	54.90	54.56	54.22	53.88	53.54	53.20	52.87	52.54	52.21	52.15	51.84	51.54
Thailand	79.81	78.87	77.95	77.03	76.12	75.23	74.34	73.47	72.60	71.75	70.91	70.16	69.43
Vietnam	76.60	76.25	75.90	75.56	75.22	74.87	74.53	74.20	73.86	73.52	73.22	73.07	72.93
OCEANIA
American Samoa
Australia	8.05	7.88	7.71	7.55	7.39	7.23	7.08	6.93	6.78	6.64	6.44	6.33	6.23
Fiji	51.86	51.38	50.89	50.42	49.95	49.48	49.02	48.56	48.11	47.66	47.15	46.96	46.77
French Polynesia
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia. Fed. Sts.	43.22	42.40	41.60	40.81	40.04	39.28	38.53	37.80	37.09	36.39
New Caledonia
New Zealand	11.86	11.80	11.73	11.67	11.61	11.54	11.48	11.42	11.36	11.29	11.23	11.14	11.05
Northern Mariana Islands
Papua New Guinea	86.20	85.80	85.41	85.01	84.62	84.23	83.85	83.46	83.08	82.70	82.83	82.46	82.09
Solomon Islands	79.78	79.71	79.64	79.57	79.50	79.42	79.35	79.28	79.21	79.14	75.80	76.82	76.84
Tonga
Vanuatu
Western Samoa

LABOUR FORCE IN AGRICULTURE (%) (cont.)

	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
WORLD TOTAL	52.07	51.62	51.18	50.75	50.33	43.91	49.51	49.12
ASIA-PACI (APFSOS)
ASIA
Bangladesh	70.73	69.71	68.71	67.72	60.75	65.79	64.84	63.91
Bhutan
Brunei	3.88	3.54	3.23	2.95	2.69	2.45	2.24	2.04
Cambodia	75.16	74.97	74.79	74.60	74.41	74.23	74.04	73.85
China	74.96	74.75	74.54	74.34	74.13	73.93	73.72	73.52
Hong Kong	1.17	1.13	1.09	1.04	1.0	0.96	0.93	0.89
India	67.97	67.40	66.84	66.28	65.73	65.18	64.64	64.10
Indonesia	58.17	57.95	57.72	57.49	57.27	57.05	56.82	56.60
Japan	9.69	9.30	8.93	8.57	8.23	7.90	7.58	7.28
Korea, D. P. Rep.	42.75	42.05	41.36	40.69	40.02	39.37	38.73	38.09
Korea, Rep.	29.93	27.85	25.92	24.13	22.46	20.90	19.46	18.11
Laos	79.18	79.04	78.90	78.76	78.61	78.47	78.33	78.19
Malaysia	36.19	34.77	33.40	32.09	30.83	29.63	28.46	27.35
Maldives	44.26	42.38	40.58	38.85	37.20	35.61	34.10	32.65
Mongolia	37.23	36.40	35.58	34.79	34.02	33.26	32.52	31.79
Myanmar	75.04	74.78	74.53	74.27	74.02	73.77	73.51	73.26
Nepal	95.27	95.26	95.26	95.25	95.25	95.25	95.24	95.24
Pakistan	60.07	59.51	58.95	58.39	57.84	57.30	56.76	56.22
Philippines	50.07	49.35	48.64	47.94	47.25	46.56	45.89	45.23
Singapore	1.05	0.91	0.78	0.67	0.58	0.50	0.43	0.37
Sri Lanka	51.23	50.93	50.63	50.33	50.04	49.74	49.45	49.16
Thailand	68.70	67.97	67.26	66.55	65.85	65.16	64.48	63.80
Vietnam	72.78	72.64	72.50	72.35	72.21	72.07	71.92	71.78
OCEANIA
American Samoa
Australia	6.13	6.03	5.93	5.83	5.74	5.64	5.55	5.46
Fiji	46.59	46.40	46.21	46.03	45.84	45.66	45.48	45.29
French Polynesia
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
New Caledonia
New Zealand	10.96	10.87	10.79	10.70	10.61	10.53	10.44	10.36
Northern Mariana Islands
Papua New Guinea	81.72	81.36	80.99	80.63	80.27	79.91	79.55	79.19
Solomon Islands	76.86	76.88	76.90	76.92	76.94	76.96	76.98	77.0
Tonga
Vanuatu
Western Samoa

Source : World Development Indicators 1997, World Bank