Agriculture GDP share falls as female 70-74 population rises
Comparing Share of GDP from agriculture with Population ages 70-74, female, per capita across 197 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- -0.63
- Holding size constant
- -0.51
- Countries compared
- 197
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The link between these indicators might be due to demographic and economic shifts, where countries with aging populations tend to have more service-oriented economies. A careful reader should consider urbanization as a likely confounder, as it can influence both the age distribution and the sectoral composition of the economy. The relationship could be driven by broader structural changes in societies.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. This correlation could mislead by implying a direct relationship between aging female population and agricultural sector size, when in fact it may be driven by other underlying factors.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.