Agricultural sector's employment share in Paraguay 2022

The employment in the agricultural sector as share of total employment in Paraguay decreased to 17.41 percent since the previous year. The share thereby reached its lowest value in recent years. Notably, the share is continuously decreasing over the last years.
Employment in agriculture is the number of people performing activities in agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing that provide a service or produces goods to make a profit or get paid as a share of the total employed. This includes individuals attending work, or not working due to being temporarily absent from a job, or in a working-time arrangement.

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Employment in the agricultural sector in Paraguay from 2013 to 2022, as share of total employment

Characteristic	Share of total employment
2022	17.41%
2021	19.71%
2020	21.27%
2019	18.72%
2018	20.08%
2017	20.18%
2016	21.04%
2015	21.82%
2014	22.08%
2013	22.93%

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Release date

May 2024

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Region

Paraguay

Survey time period

2013 to 2022

Special properties

*As of September

Supplementary notes

The agricultural sector includes forestry, hunting, and fishing, as well as cultivation of crops and livestock production.
Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement.

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