Employment in agriculture in European Union
3.2% of employed people in the European Union worked in agriculture in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1991.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
3.2%
Change from 2024
−0.1percentage points
World, 2025
25.8%
Employment in agriculture in European Union over time
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% of total employment. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.2% | 25.8% |
| 2024 | 3.3% | 26.1% |
| 2023 | 3.7% | 26.6% |
| 2022 | 3.8% | 26.9% |
| 2021 | 3.9% | 26.9% |
| 2020 | 3.9% | 27.2% |
| 2019 | 3.9% | 26.3% |
| 2018 | 4.0% | 26.8% |
| 2017 | 4.2% | 27.5% |
| 2016 | 4.3% | 28.0% |
| 2015 | 4.5% | 28.5% |
| 2014 | 4.7% | 29.2% |
| 2013 | 4.9% | 30.1% |
| 2012 | 5.0% | 30.9% |
| 2011 | 5.0% | 31.7% |
| 2010 | 5.2% | 32.6% |
| 2009 | 5.1% | 33.2% |
| 2008 | 5.1% | 33.7% |
| 2007 | 5.6% | 34.3% |
| 2006 | 6.0% | 35.2% |
| 2005 | 6.2% | 36.3% |
| 2004 | 6.4% | 37.2% |
| 2003 | 6.9% | 38.2% |
| 2002 | 7.0% | 38.7% |
| 2001 | 7.5% | 39.0% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 3.3% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 4.5%, the figure has changed by −1.3 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 25.8%.
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