Services now employ twice as many Ghanaian women as farms
Share of employed women in farming and in services, %, 2025 modelled estimates, five countries that switched.
- 1. By 2100, more than 1 in 3 people will be African
- 2. Nearly half the world's under-25s will be African by 2100
- 3. DR Congo is projected to outgrow the US by 2100
- 4. Kinshasa will soon be bigger than Paris and London combined
- 5. Two-thirds of the world's mobile money moves in Africa
- 6. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
- 7. Africa's solar imports more than doubled since early 2024
- 8. DR Congo mines three-quarters of the world's cobalt
- 9. Nearly two in three people in Africa are still offline
- 10. Africa formally recycles less than 1% of its e-waste
- 11. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
- 12. Nigeria's cities now hold more people than Japan's
- 13. Sudan now has the world's most people displaced at home
- 14. Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil
- 15. Six of the ten fastest-growing big cities are African
- 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
- 17. Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa
- 18. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
- 19. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
- 20. More sub-Saharan Africans now have mobile money than bank accounts
- 21. Sub-Saharan Africa's cities now hold more people than Latin America's
- 22. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
- 23. Nitrogen dioxide over Khartoum fell 39% after war began
- 24. Countries mostly without electricity fell from 33 to 15
- 25. Seven in ten West African mobile money accounts sit idle
- 26. Nigeria became the third-biggest sender of students abroad
- 27. Guinea overtook Australia as the world's biggest bauxite miner
- 28. DR Congo passed Chile in refined copper
- 29. Burkina Faso now sends half its exports to the UAE
- 30. Nouakchott's mobile internet sped from Africa's slowest to top 30
- 31. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
- 32. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
- 33. Services now employ twice as many Ghanaian women as farms
of Ghana's employed women work in services, against 28.6% on farms.
the year services overtook farming for Ghanaian women; farming's share has fallen every year since 2000, from 61%.
countries shown made the same switch since 2009, from Sri Lanka to Myanmar.
the numbers & method
| farming (%) | services (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 29 | 56 |
| Sri Lanka | 26 | 50 |
| Nepal | 36 | 47 |
| Viet Nam | 24 | 45 |
| Myanmar | 38 | 44 |
Claim types Estimate
World Bank API (last updated 8 Oct 2026), ILO modelled estimates of employment in agriculture and in services, female, % of female employment. 2025: Ghana 28.55 / 55.95; Sri Lanka 25.97 / 49.89; Nepal 35.86 / 46.55; Viet Nam 24.42 / 44.65; Myanmar 37.84 / 44.41. First year services exceeded agriculture: Sri Lanka 2009, Ghana 2014, Nepal 2015, Viet Nam 2019, Myanmar 2020. Somalia left out (model swings on thin survey data). Modelled values, not survey readings.
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