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)
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Palestine | 34.86 |
| 1995 | Palestine | 35.96 |
| 1997 | Palestine | 36.21 |
| 2009 | Palestine | 24.1 |
| 2020 | Palestine | 30.65 |
| 1992 | Yemen | 11.62 |
| 1993 | Yemen | 11.25 |
| 1997 | Yemen | 10.82 |
| 2010 | Yemen | 19.03 |
| 2013 | Yemen | 15.49 |
| 2015 | Yemen | 12.71 |
| 2017 | Yemen | 11.1 |
| 1998 | Somalia | 16.58 |
| 2002 | Somalia | 16.38 |
| 2009 | Somalia | 16.35 |
| 2014 | Somalia | 16.73 |
| 1999 | Sudan | 14.13 |
| 2001 | Sudan | 14.42 |
| 2012 | Sudan | 14.7 |
| 2013 | Syria | 24.7 |
| 1995 | Tunisia | 32.57 |
| 2009 | United Arab Emirates | 25.92 |
| 2011 | United Arab Emirates | 27.65 |
| 2013 | United Arab Emirates | 29.93 |
| 2017 | United Arab Emirates | 34.4 |
| 2020 | United Arab Emirates | 27.58 |
| 2021 | United Arab Emirates | 27.17 |
| 1994 | Mauritania | 17 |
| 1999 | Mauritania | 16.54 |
| 2000 | Mauritania | 16.23 |
| 2001 | Mauritania | 16.08 |
| 2003 | Mauritania | 16.26 |
| 2004 | Mauritania | 16.5 |
| 2005 | Mauritania | 16.77 |
| 2013 | Mauritania | 17.44 |
| 2016 | Mauritania | 17.65 |
| 1998 | Morocco | 22.11 |
| 2003 | Morocco | 20.18 |
| 2005 | Morocco | 19.51 |
| 2012 | Morocco | 21.38 |
| 2006 | Oman | 21.14 |
| 2014 | Oman | 37.34 |
| 2016 | Oman | 40.93 |
| 2021 | Oman | 48.28 |
| 1998 | Qatar | 34.71 |
| 2006 | Qatar | 41.57 |
| 2011 | Qatar | 54.1 |
| 2012 | Qatar | 51.78 |
| 2018 | Qatar | 54.23 |
| 1996 | Saudi Arabia | 25.17 |
| 1998 | Saudi Arabia | 25.02 |
| 2015 | Saudi Arabia | 23.77 |
| 2016 | Saudi Arabia | 25.68 |
| 2018 | Saudi Arabia | 25.66 |
| 2020 | Saudi Arabia | 22.9 |
| 1992 | Algeria | 25.52 |
| 2005 | Algeria | 27.56 |
| 2009 | Algeria | 29.8 |
| 2017 | Algeria | 30.98 |
| 2018 | Algeria | 30.68 |
| 1995 | Bahrain | 28.38 |
| 1997 | Bahrain | 28.13 |
| 2001 | Bahrain | 28.57 |
| 2017 | Bahrain | 35.29 |
| 2021 | Bahrain | 34.92 |
| 1992 | Comoros | 14.49 |
| 2002 | Comoros | 14.13 |
| 2013 | Comoros | 18.51 |
| 2015 | Comoros | 19.14 |
| 1994 | Djibouti | 5.42 |
| 2000 | Djibouti | 4.82 |
| 2016 | Djibouti | 5.55 |
| 2017 | Djibouti | 5.64 |
| 1996 | Egypt | 23.62 |
| 1998 | Egypt | 22.26 |
| 2004 | Egypt | 19.96 |
| 2007 | Egypt | 22.16 |
| 2018 | Egypt | 26.87 |
| 2020 | Egypt | 28.5 |
| 1992 | Iraq | 20.16 |
| 1996 | Iraq | 19.93 |
| 2012 | Iraq | 20.8 |
| 2016 | Iraq | 20.9 |
| 1995 | Jordan | 20.92 |
| 2008 | Kuwait | 25.14 |
| 2010 | Kuwait | 24.34 |
| 2021 | Kuwait | 25.29 |
| 1997 | Lebanon | 25.54 |
| 2007 | Lebanon | 23.3 |
| 2010 | Lebanon | 23.6 |
| 2012 | Lebanon | 23.09 |
| 2013 | Lebanon | 22.87 |
| 2021 | Lebanon | 20.77 |
| 1993 | Libya | 23.44 |
| 1996 | Libya | 22.73 |
| 2000 | Libya | 22.04 |
| 2002 | Libya | 21.39 |
| 2003 | Libya | 21.73 |
| 2011 | Libya | 20.87 |
| 2012 | Libya | 20.41 |
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
Source