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Labour Productivity in Agriculture in the Region

 

Asia Pacific

Analytical
Grouping /
Country

Arable Land 
Hectare/Capita
Agricultural Value Added/Per Unit of Labour in 1995 ($)
  1979-81 1994-96 1979-81 1995-97
High Income
Australia 2.97 2.68 20,880 29,044
Japan 0.04 0.03 15,698 28,665
New Zealand 0.80 0.43 ... ...

High Growth

Hong Kong, China ... ... ... ...
Indonesia 0.12 0.09 610 745
Korea, Republic of 0.05 0.04 3,957 10,962
Malaysia 0.07 0.09 3,279 6,267
Philippines 0.09 0.07 1,347 1,379
Singapore 0.00 0.00 13,937 39,851
Thailand 0.35 0.29 630 928
Transition
Cambodia 0.30 0.37 ... 407
China 0.10 0.10 162 296
Lao, PDR 0.21 0.17 ... 526
Mongolia 0.71 0.54 32 22
Myanmar 0.28 0.22 ... ...
Viet Nam 0.11 0.07 ... 226
Low Income
Afghanistan ... ... ... ...
Bangladesh 0.10 0.07 181 221
India 0.24 0.17 253 343
Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.36 0.30 2,533 3,831
Nepal 0.16 0.13 162 187
Pakistan 0.24 0.17 392 585
Sri Lanka 0.06 0.05 648 732
Island
Fiji 0.44 0.37 ... ...
Kiribati ... ... ... ...
Papua New Guinea 0.01 0.01 717 827
Solomon Islands ... ... ... ...

 

Arab States

Analytical
Grouping /
Country

Arable Land
Hectare/Capita
Agricultural Value Added /Per Unit of Labour in 1995 ($)
 

1979-81

1994-96 1979-81 1995-97
Low to Middle Income
Iraq (1990) 0.40 0.24 ... ...
Jordan (1993) 0.14 0.06 1,176 1,431
Lebanon (1990) 0.07 0.04 ... 27,409
Syrian Arab Republic (1991) 0.60 0.32 ... ...
West Bank & Gaza ... ... ... ...
Yemen (1990) 0.16 0.09 ... 302
High Income
Bahrain ... ... ... ...
Kuwait ... ... ... ...
Oman 0.01 0.01 ... ...
Qatar ... ... ... ...
Saudi Arabia 0.20 0.19 2,167 10,742
United Arab Emirates 0.01 0.02 ... ...

The years indicated are the latest for which data is available.

Source

Updated by CHW. Compiled by MM. Approved by RD. Last update: 17 August 2001.