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that agricultural activities play a pivotal role in the OIC Member Countries and they have a
noteworthy contribution to the agricultural employment in the world.
Figure 7 illustrates the developments in agricultural and total employment in the OIC
Member Countries. In 1990, OIC agriculture sector employed almost 182 million people, where
total employment was 344 million. Up to 2013, 58 million agricultural labor was added, and
the number of people employed in agriculture sector reached to 240 million people. In the
same year, total employment in the OIC Member countries was realized as nearly 670 million
people.
Figure 7. Agricultural and Total Employment in the OIC
Source: Calculated by using FAOSTAT
Even though the number of agriculture sector employment is getting higher, the
proportion employed in agriculture is decreasing over time. Figure 8 shows the share of
agricultural employment in total employment in the OIC and world. In 1990 Agriculture
accounted for almost 52.8 percent of total employment in the OIC, which is higher than the
share of World’s agricultural employment. At the beginning of the 2000s, the contribution of
agriculture sector to the total employment decreased to around 44 percent both in the OIC and
world. After that, the share of agriculture sector in the OIC total employment is getting lower
than the world. In 2013, the proportion of agricultural employment realized as 35.8 percent
in the OIC and 38.7 percent in the world.
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