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)
34.86 1993 Palestine
35.96 1995 Palestine
36.21 1997 Palestine
24.1 2009 Palestine
30.65 2020 Palestine
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 Yemen
16.58 1998 Somalia
16.38 2002 Somalia
16.35 2009 Somalia
16.73 2014 Somalia
14.13 1999 Sudan
14.42 2001 Sudan
14.7 2012 Sudan
24.7 2013 Syria
32.57 1995 Tunisia
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 United Arab Emirates
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 Mauritania
22.11 1998 Morocco
20.18 2003 Morocco
19.51 2005 Morocco
21.38 2012 Morocco
21.14 2006 Oman
37.34 2014 Oman
40.93 2016 Oman
48.28 2021 Oman
34.71 1998 Qatar
41.57 2006 Qatar
54.1 2011 Qatar
51.78 2012 Qatar
54.23 2018 Qatar
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 Saudi Arabia
25.52 1992 Algeria
27.56 2005 Algeria
29.8 2009 Algeria
30.98 2017 Algeria
30.68 2018 Algeria
28.38 1995 Bahrain
28.13 1997 Bahrain
28.57 2001 Bahrain
35.29 2017 Bahrain
34.92 2021 Bahrain
14.49 1992 Comoros
14.13 2002 Comoros
18.51 2013 Comoros
19.14 2015 Comoros
5.42 1994 Djibouti
4.82 2000 Djibouti
5.55 2016 Djibouti
5.64 2017 Djibouti
23.62 1996 Egypt
22.26 1998 Egypt
19.96 2004 Egypt
22.16 2007 Egypt
26.87 2018 Egypt
28.5 2020 Egypt
20.16 1992 Iraq
19.93 1996 Iraq
20.8 2012 Iraq
20.9 2016 Iraq
20.92 1995 Jordan
25.14 2008 Kuwait
24.34 2010 Kuwait
25.29 2021 Kuwait
25.54 1997 Lebanon
23.3 2007 Lebanon
23.6 2010 Lebanon
23.09 2012 Lebanon
22.87 2013 Lebanon
20.77 2021 Lebanon
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 Libya
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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