Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)

Dataset NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer
World Bank and OECD national accounts data, from national statistical offices
Code
NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS
Last update by provider
8 October 2026
Last checked here
9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata)
CC BY-4.0
Source note
Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

Definition published with the series

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing corresponds to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 01-03 and includes the exploitation of vegetal and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing of crops, raising and breeding of animals, harvesting of timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural habitats.Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. Note: For VAB countries, gross value added at factor cost is used as the denominator.

Measures taken from this dataset

MeasureFixed selectionUnit
Agriculture, forestry and fishing as a share of GDP NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS % of GDP