Agriculture Value Added - Ranking 2019

By 2025, the countries at the top of the agriculture value-added ranking share a common profile of low industrial diversification and high reliance on primary production. Syria leads at 43.1 percent, reflecting a war-shattered economy where agriculture has become a survival sector, while Afghanistan, at 40.2 percent, similarly depends on farming in a context of fragile state capacity and limited manufacturing. These figures underscore that extreme agrarian dependency often correlates with conflict or weak institutional development. At the bottom, Lebanon’s negative value of -0.6 percent signals a structural anomaly: its agricultural sector is so diminished relative to a large services-based economy that net subsidies or statistical adjustments produce a negative figure, while Hong Kong and Malta, with values near zero, have essentially abandoned primary production for finance and trade. The 2025 data captures a polarized global economy. A major climate shock or a shift in global food trade policy could reshuffle the leaderboard by forcing even industrialised nations to reinvest in domestic agriculture.