Yemen, Rep.: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2018, Yemen, Rep.'s agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) rose 1.78 percentage points on 2017 (from 26.96% to 28.75%).

Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2017), the average change was −0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.65 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 7.24 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 5 percentage points in 1995. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2009 to 2018 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.27 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 95% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

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.

Limitations: Among the difficulties faced by compilers of national accounts is the extent of unreported economic activity in the informal or secondary economy. In developing countries a large share of agricultural output is either not exchanged (because it is consumed within the household) or not exchanged for money. Agricultural production often must be estimated indirectly, using a combination of methods involving estimates of inputs, yields, and area under cultivation. This approach sometimes leads to crude approximations that can differ from the true values over time and across crops for reasons other than climate conditions or farming techniques.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 29 values

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

• Afghanistan — 34.29% (2024)
• Algeria — 14.51% (2025)
• Bahrain — 0.24% (2025)
• Djibouti — 2.27% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 16.55% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 10.59% (2025)
• Iraq — 3.41% (2025)
• Israel — 1.29% (2024)
• Jordan — 5.56% (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Yemen, Rep.

• Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$4.05 billion (2023)
• Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$198.89 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, United Kingdom (current US$) — US$122.16 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$1.82 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$4.15 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$4.15 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$4.15 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Yemen, Rep.'s agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)?

28.75% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is up 1.35 percentage points from 27.39% in 1990. The highest value was 28.75% in 2018 and the lowest 9.75% in 2011.

Is the latest change in agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) unusual for Yemen, Rep.?

In 2018, Yemen, Rep.'s agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) rose 1.78 percentage points on 2017 (from 26.96% to 28.75%). Across the 27 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2017), the average change was −0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.65 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: 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) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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