Arab Region | Employment in industry, percent of total employment, modeled ILO estimate (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
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 industry sector consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, and public utilities (electricity, gas, and water), in accordance with divisions 2-5 (ISIC 2) or categories C-F (ISIC 3) or categories B-F (ISIC 4).
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Arab Development Portal
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Arab Region
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Arab Region | Employment in industry, percent of total employment, modeled ILO estimate (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
Palestine 34.86 1993
Palestine 35.96 1995
Palestine 36.21 1997
Palestine 24.1 2009
Palestine 30.65 2020
Yemen 11.62 1992
Yemen 11.25 1993
Yemen 10.82 1997
Yemen 19.03 2010
Yemen 15.49 2013
Yemen 12.71 2015
Yemen 11.1 2017
Somalia 16.58 1998
Somalia 16.38 2002
Somalia 16.35 2009
Somalia 16.73 2014
Sudan 14.13 1999
Sudan 14.42 2001
Sudan 14.7 2012
Syria 24.7 2013
Tunisia 32.57 1995
United Arab Emirates 25.92 2009
United Arab Emirates 27.65 2011
United Arab Emirates 29.93 2013
United Arab Emirates 34.4 2017
United Arab Emirates 27.58 2020
United Arab Emirates 27.17 2021
Mauritania 17 1994
Mauritania 16.54 1999
Mauritania 16.23 2000
Mauritania 16.08 2001
Mauritania 16.26 2003
Mauritania 16.5 2004
Mauritania 16.77 2005
Mauritania 17.44 2013
Mauritania 17.65 2016
Morocco 22.11 1998
Morocco 20.18 2003
Morocco 19.51 2005
Morocco 21.38 2012
Oman 21.14 2006
Oman 37.34 2014
Oman 40.93 2016
Oman 48.28 2021
Qatar 34.71 1998
Qatar 41.57 2006
Qatar 54.1 2011
Qatar 51.78 2012
Qatar 54.23 2018
Saudi Arabia 25.17 1996
Saudi Arabia 25.02 1998
Saudi Arabia 23.77 2015
Saudi Arabia 25.68 2016
Saudi Arabia 25.66 2018
Saudi Arabia 22.9 2020
Algeria 25.52 1992
Algeria 27.56 2005
Algeria 29.8 2009
Algeria 30.98 2017
Algeria 30.68 2018
Bahrain 28.38 1995
Bahrain 28.13 1997
Bahrain 28.57 2001
Bahrain 35.29 2017
Bahrain 34.92 2021
Comoros 14.49 1992
Comoros 14.13 2002
Comoros 18.51 2013
Comoros 19.14 2015
Djibouti 5.42 1994
Djibouti 4.82 2000
Djibouti 5.55 2016
Djibouti 5.64 2017
Egypt 23.62 1996
Egypt 22.26 1998
Egypt 19.96 2004
Egypt 22.16 2007
Egypt 26.87 2018
Egypt 28.5 2020
Iraq 20.16 1992
Iraq 19.93 1996
Iraq 20.8 2012
Iraq 20.9 2016
Jordan 20.92 1995
Kuwait 25.14 2008
Kuwait 24.34 2010
Kuwait 25.29 2021
Lebanon 25.54 1997
Lebanon 23.3 2007
Lebanon 23.6 2010
Lebanon 23.09 2012
Lebanon 22.87 2013
Lebanon 20.77 2021
Libya 23.44 1993
Libya 22.73 1996
Libya 22.04 2000
Libya 21.39 2002
Libya 21.73 2003
Libya 20.87 2011
Libya 20.41 2012
Arab Region | Employment in industry, percent of total employment, modeled ILO estimate (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
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 industry sector consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, and public utilities (electricity, gas, and water), in accordance with divisions 2-5 (ISIC 2) or categories C-F (ISIC 3) or categories B-F (ISIC 4).
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
682
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