Agriculture value added links to imports per capita
Comparing Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant LCU), per unit of GDP with Imports of goods and services (current LCU), per capita across 174 countries, 2011–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.61
- Holding size constant
- +0.66
- Countries compared
- 174
- Period
- 2011–2025
What might link these
The relationship between agriculture's contribution to GDP and imports per capita might be influenced by a country's overall economic development and trade policies. A careful reader should consider that a likely confounder could be the level of industrialization or economic diversification. This could mask the true nature of the relationship.
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 because it may reflect underlying economic structures rather than a direct relationship between the two indicators.
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.