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Employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Name: Employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, labor-jobs-occupational-safety, employment, services, total, modeled, estimate

Compare employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ilo estimate) across 181 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•181 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

58.4%

Median: 59.5%

Countries Covered

181

with available data

Highest

Djibouti

92.2%

Lowest

Burundi

11.6%

Top 5 Countries

1Djibouti92.2%

2Luxembourg91.5%

3Macao88.6%

4Singapore85.9%

5Hong Kong85.8%

By Region

Oceania76.6%(2 countries)

Europe73.1%(31 countries)

North America68.0%(4 countries)

South America66.6%(7 countries)

Asia59.9%(25 countries)

Key Findings

•181 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Djibouti has the highest published value (92.1663 %).
•Burundi has the lowest published value (11.5557 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (11.6%)High (92.2%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 58.4%)

Oceania (2)

Europe (31)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Asia (25)

Other (103)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The services sector consists of wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social, and personal services, in accordance with divisions 6-9 (ISIC 2) or categories G-Q (ISIC 3) or categories G-U (ISIC 4).

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series SL.SRV.EMPL.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The services sector consists of wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social, and personal services, in accordance with divisions 6-9 (ISIC 2) or categories G-Q (ISIC 3) or categories G-U (ISIC 4).

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Djibouti	92.2%
2	Luxembourg	91.5%
3	Macao	88.6%
4	Singapore	85.9%
5	Hong Kong	85.8%
6	Netherlands	84.5%
7	Bahamas	84.4%
8	Puerto Rico	84.1%
9	Israel	84.1%
10	French Polynesia	83.7%
11	United Kingdom	83.2%
12	Barbados	82.6%
13	Virgin Islands, U.S.	81.9%
14	Cyprus	81.6%
15	Sweden	81.4%
16	Malta	81.4%
17	Jordan	80.8%
18	Canada	80.1%
19	Belgium	79.8%
20	Norway	79.7%
21	Denmark	79.6%
22	United States of America	79.6%
23	Guam	79.2%
24	Australia	78.5%
25	Brunei Darussalam	78.4%
26	France	78.3%
27	Switzerland	78.2%
28	Iceland	78.1%
29	Ireland	77.9%
30	Montenegro	77.6%
31	New Caledonia	77.6%
32	Spain	76.8%
33	Saint Lucia	76.3%
34	Finland	75.7%
35	Mauritius	74.7%
36	New Zealand	74.6%
37	Saudi Arabia	74.4%
38	Venezuela	74.4%
39	Dominican Republic	74.0%
40	Japan	74.0%
41	South Africa	73.8%
42	Kuwait	73.5%
43	Uruguay	73.2%
44	Greece	73.0%
45	Germany	73.0%
46	Portugal	72.7%
47	Austria	72.6%
48	Chile	72.4%
49	Brazil	72.2%
50	Argentina	71.8%
51	Maldives	71.8%
52	South Korea	71.5%
53	Latvia	71.5%
54	Libya	71.4%
55	Trinidad and Tobago	71.3%
56	Estonia	71.0%
57	Italy	70.2%
58	Costa Rica	70.0%
59	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	69.8%
60	Lithuania	69.4%
61	Croatia	69.3%
62	Russian Federation	69.1%
63	Jamaica	68.9%
64	Kazakhstan	68.8%
65	Belize	68.5%
66	United Arab Emirates	68.0%
67	Cape Verde	67.7%
68	Cuba	67.6%
69	Bulgaria	67.4%
70	Panama	67.0%
71	Suriname	66.9%
72	Botswana	66.2%
73	Colombia	65.8%
74	Sao Tome and Principe	65.4%
75	Hungary	65.4%
76	Iraq	65.3%
77	Paraguay	65.1%
78	Malaysia	64.9%
79	Slovenia	64.4%
80	Bahrain	64.3%
81	Mexico	64.1%
82	Poland	63.8%
83	Slovakia	63.3%
84	El Salvador	63.0%
85	Czech Republic	62.4%
86	Namibia	61.1%
87	The Republic of North Macedonia	60.9%
88	Qatar	60.4%
89	Peru	60.1%
90	Philippines	59.5%
91	Belarus	59.5%
92	Eswatini	58.7%
93	Syrian Arab Republic	58.5%
94	Türkiye	58.5%
95	Algeria	58.3%
96	Kyrgyzstan	57.7%
97	Yemen	57.3%
98	Samoa	57.2%
99	Guyana	56.7%
100	Romania	56.5%
101	Honduras	55.9%
102	Bolivia	55.5%
103	Papua New Guinea	55.3%
104	Serbia	54.9%
105	Oman	54.6%
106	Tunisia	54.3%
107	Republic of The Gambia	53.6%
108	Egypt	53.1%
109	Tonga	53.0%
110	Mauritania	52.8%
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.7%
112	Nicaragua	52.6%
113	Gabon	52.3%
114	Somalia	52.2%
115	Armenia	51.7%
116	Fiji	51.7%
117	Islamic Republic of Iran	51.7%
118	Comoros	51.6%
119	Ecuador	50.9%
120	Liberia	50.5%
121	Azerbaijan	50.2%
122	Uzbekistan	50.2%
123	Timor-Leste	50.2%
124	Indonesia	50.2%
125	Solomon Islands	50.0%
126	Mongolia	49.9%
127	Turkmenistan	49.5%
128	Georgia	49.5%
129	Nigeria	49.5%
130	Thailand	49.2%
131	Morocco	48.3%
132	Guatemala	48.2%
133	Senegal	47.9%
134	Sri Lanka	47.8%
135	Albania	47.2%
136	Ghana	47.2%
137	Rwanda	46.5%
138	People's Republic of China	46.5%
139	Nepal	45.8%
140	Vanuatu	45.4%
141	Haiti	44.6%
142	Togo	44.2%
143	Republic of the Congo	44.2%
144	Sierra Leone	44.0%
145	Cameroon	43.5%
146	Bhutan	41.8%
147	Kenya	41.7%
148	Benin	41.4%
149	Angola	40.9%
150	Cote d'Ivoire	40.3%
151	Vietnam	40.1%
152	Tajikistan	39.1%
153	Pakistan	38.5%
154	Guinea	38.5%
155	Cambodia	37.7%
156	Bangladesh	37.7%
157	Moldova, Republic of	36.9%
158	Myanmar	36.9%
159	Lesotho	36.1%
160	Zambia	35.2%
161	Equatorial Guinea	34.7%
162	Zimbabwe	34.2%
163	Democratic Republic of the Congo	33.5%
164	Ethiopia	33.4%
165	India	32.6%
166	Eritrea	31.8%
167	Burkina Faso	31.6%
168	Afghanistan	29.5%
169	Guinea-Bissau	29.2%
170	Mali	28.4%
171	Uganda	27.9%
172	Malawi	27.7%
173	United Republic of Tanzania	27.3%
174	Lao People's Democratic Republic	24.0%
175	North Korea	23.5%
176	Madagascar	20.9%
177	Mozambique	20.6%
178	Central African Republic	20.5%
179	Chad	19.8%
180	Niger	17.7%
181	Burundi	11.6%

Showing 181 of 181 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #labor-jobs-occupational-safety #employment #services #total #modeled #estimate

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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