FCV Countries, 2000–19

TABLE 2.2 Agricultural Employment as a Percentage of Total

Employment in African FCV Countries, 2000–19

Country

Burkina Faso

Burundi 2000

2019 Male Female Male Female

83.9 76.3 30.1 21.4

86.4 96.6 78.1 93.7

Cameroon 63.1 70.0 39.8 47.7 Central African Republic 71.7 79.9 67.5 72.6 Chad 80.9 83.9 76.5 73.4 Comoros 52.8 66.1 36.3 31.6 Congo, Dem. Rep. 65.5 81.3 57.4 71.5 Congo, Rep. 40.4 44.3 35.0 32.0 Eritrea 61.4 75.9 58.7 68.3 Gambia, The 28.0 46.6 22.6 33.1 Guinea-Bissau 61.2 74.9 57.1 64.1 Liberia 50.0 54.1 44.7 40.3 Mali 71.3 74.3 62.3 62.6 Mozambique 70.8 91.3 59.8 79.8 Niger 77.4 75.7 74.8 69.5 Nigeria 53.8 42.9 44.5 23.6 Somalia 81.6 88.8 79.2 83.9 South Sudan 52.6 80.0 48.2 73.2 Sudan 46.8 65.1 33.6 51.8 Zimbabwe 52.1 69.9 62.8 69.5

Source: Compilation for this publication, using data from World Bank 2020. Note: FCV = fragility, conflict, and violence.

On average, fishing, forestry, and agriculture contribute more to the economies of African FCV countries than to those of African non-FCV countries. Liberia, which is still largely an agriculture-based economy, experienced the largest decline in the share of value added in agriculture, forestry, and fishing in GDP, dropping from 76.1 percent in 2000 to 39.1 percent in 2019, a 37.0-percentage-point decline in the contribution of agriculture to GDP (table 2.3). The contribution of agriculture to GDP also declined significantly in Sudan (from 40.7 percent in 2000 to 11.6 percent in 2019), Burundi (from 44.1 percent in 2000 to 28.9 percent in 2019), and the Democratic Republic of Congo (from 32.0 percent in 2000 to 20.0 percent in 2019).