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Annex 8: Agricultural Population (Thousands)
AreaName 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2012
African Group 131,713 142,798 152,570 163,463 174,412 178,952
Benin 3,019 3,318 3,517 3,750 3,920 3,964
Burkina Faso 8,616 9,871 11,339 13,083 15,160 16,087
Cameroon 7,854 8,206 8,338 8,263 8,018 7,875
Chad 4,981 5,579 6,197 6,955 7,372 7,499
Côte d'Ivoire 7,437 7,939 8,085 7,798 7,484 7,380
Gabon 479 484 466 433 387 387
Gambia 792 907 1,026 1,166 1,314 1,375
Guinea 5,019 6,474 6,996 7,405 7,964 8,267
Guinea-Bissau 867 946 1,024 1,108 1,202 1,243
Mali 7,378 8,155 9,112 10,276 11,516 12,011
Mozambique 10,907 12,682 14,296 16,074 17,781 18,462
Niger 6,888 8,000 9,365 10,963 12,859 13,695
Nigeria 41,925 41,791 41,133 40,364 39,405 38,977
Senegal 5,535 6,274 6,986 7,817 8,734 9,117
Sierra Leone 2,819 2,647 2,692 3,235 3,522 3,610
Togo 2,404 2,561 2,860 3,059 3,220 3,276
Uganda 14,793 16,964 19,138 21,714 24,554 25,727
Arab Group 87,617 89,447 89,970 90,647 90,589 90,228
Algeria 6,749 7,215 7,376 7,408 7,404 7,352
Bahrain 10 8 7 6 8 8
Comoros 339 374 414 460 510 529
Djibouti 461 502 573 616 658 675
Egypt 24,516 23,852 23,446 23,280 22,664 22,325
Iraq 2,674 2,426 2,213 1,963 1,742 1,662
Jordan 465 492 441 409 390 374
Kuwait 24 19 21 24 28 29
Lebanon 211 177 136 104 77 68
Libya 449 367 302 240 193 175
Mauritania 1,096 1,236 1,393 1,570 1,741 1,807
Morocco 10,408 10,118 9,696 8,980 8,260 8,000
Oman 817 906 815 776 804 801
Palestine 382 385 380 346 322 313
Qatar 13 10 8 8 13 13
Saudi Arabia 3,085 2,609 2,027 1,743 1,400 1,270
Somalia 4,889 4,715 5,190 5,681 6,121 6,331
Sudan 18,214 19,618 20,825 21,602 22,443 22,664
Syrian Arab Republic 3,732 4,048 3,810 4,005 4,080 4,062
Tunisia 2,195 2,270 2,253 2,202 2,154 2,131
United Arab Emirates 143 147 151 159 234 230
Yemen 6,745 7,953 8,493 9,065 9,343 9,409
Asian Group 273,000 301,054 305,025 304,749 300,331 298,408
Afghanistan 8,855 13,018 14,550 17,051 18,768 19,695
Albania 1,805 1,616 1,482 1,414 1,339 1,307
Azerbaijan 2,255 2,181 2,128 2,091 2,071
Bangladesh 68,375 70,331 71,073 70,341 67,445 66,240
Brunei Darussalam 5 4 2 2 1 1
Indonesia 93,867 94,619 93,918 92,351 89,554 88,244
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 17,638 17,524 17,361 16,637 15,929 15,635
Kazakhstan 3,493 2,910 2,640 2,502 2,450
Kyrgyzstan 1,326 1,285 1,175 1,111 1,084
Malaysia 4,745 4,491 4,183 3,836 3,409 3,243
Maldives 87 83 76 67 58 55
Pakistan 58,217 63,101 68,479 71,513 74,189 75,146
Tajikistan 2,160 2,095 1,976 1,888 1,858
Turkey 19,164 18,179 16,857 15,581 14,472 13,983
Turkmenistan 1,480 1,504 1,496 1,497 1,498
Uzbekistan 7,146 6,853 6,332 5,880 5,704
Guyana 157 141 128 120 110 106
Suriname 85 87 88 89 88 88
OIC 492,330 533,299 547,565 558,859 565,332 567,588
Source: SESRIC Online Database