Employment indicators 2000–2021

19/12/2022

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agriculture and rural areas. The data provides information on the status in employment, divisions of agriculture and hours worked of the people employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing and in rural areas by sex and age whenever possible. 

FAOSTAT updates the employment indicators yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics.

The latest analytical brief presents the latest data update for the period 2000-2021. According to the available data, the agricultural sector employed 866 million people worldwide in 2021, down from 1 billion in 2000. 

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FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain