Agricultural quota

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The agricultural quota is an economic indicator that relates to the primary economic sector , i.e. agriculture , forestry and fishing . It can reflect the share of those in employment in this sector in relation to the total number of the economically active population, or it can also include inactive workers such as family workers. Optionally, the agricultural quota can also mean the proportion of the population dependent on the primary sector ( agricultural population ) in relation to the total population.

Situation in Germany

In Germany, the number of people employed in agriculture predominates within the primary sector. In 2009, the agricultural workforce in Germany was 2.1 percent nationwide. At the federal state level, the sparsely populated states Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (3.9 percent), Brandenburg (3.6 percent) and Lower Saxony (3.3 percent) have the highest agricultural quotas, while in the city states of Berlin , Bremen and Hamburg only one in 200 Employed in agricultural production works.

In absolute numbers (as of 2009/2010) Bavaria has the highest number of people employed in agriculture (190,400), followed by North Rhine-Westphalia (130,500) and Lower Saxony (120,400).

At the local level, the differences are sometimes even greater. So the value nationwide z. B. 2.3% in 2013, but in a number of counties it was more than 6%. At the top (also due to the labor-intensive viticulture in this region) was the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis with 13.6%. It was followed by the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen with 8.7%, the Lower Saxony districts of Lüchow-Dannenberg with 8.5% and Cloppenburg with 8.4% and the districts of Ammerland, Cuxhaven and Vechta with more than 7% each.

Situation in other countries

Monaco

In the densely populated Principality of Monaco , only 6 out of 52,177 employees work in the primary sector. This corresponds to an agricultural quota of 0.01 percent.

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  • Workers in German agriculture , Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, N aktuell 6, November 2012
  • Monthly reports of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Volume 69 (1996), page 605.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agrarian population , Spektrum.de
  2. ↑ Significance of agriculture in the country overall declining , topagrar.com