Arab Region | Employment in services, 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 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).
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Arab Development Portal
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Arab Region
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Arab Region | Employment in services, percent of total employment, modeled ILO estimate (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
1994 Palestine 47.99
1998 Palestine 48.86
2010 Palestine 63.51
2014 Palestine 61.58
2016 Palestine 62.41
2008 Yemen 55.59
2010 Yemen 56.86
2016 Yemen 57.93
1991 Somalia 46.51
1993 Somalia 46.15
1995 Somalia 44.9
2002 Somalia 45.79
2004 Somalia 46.32
2005 Somalia 46.57
2015 Somalia 52.3
2001 Sudan 34.39
2002 Sudan 34.65
2007 Sudan 36.95
1994 Syria 39.65
2006 Syria 52.55
2007 Syria 51.8
2008 Syria 52.58
2013 Syria 60.9
2018 Syria 65.44
1992 United Arab Emirates 61.9
1995 United Arab Emirates 62.61
2001 United Arab Emirates 63.97
1992 Mauritania 39.23
1994 Mauritania 39.61
1997 Mauritania 40.49
2007 Mauritania 45.44
2009 Mauritania 46.34
2017 Mauritania 50.25
2020 Mauritania 51.45
2001 Morocco 35.38
2003 Morocco 35.92
2011 Morocco 38.36
2015 Morocco 41.26
2016 Morocco 41.95
1999 Oman 83.3
2000 Oman 82.42
2005 Oman 73.14
2006 Oman 70.65
2008 Oman 65.2
2014 Oman 57.37
2020 Oman 48.06
2001 Qatar 59.31
2005 Qatar 55.96
2010 Qatar 42.15
2017 Qatar 44.25
2002 Saudi Arabia 69.06
2004 Saudi Arabia 69.08
2017 Saudi Arabia 69.75
1995 Algeria 51.44
1998 Algeria 52.37
2009 Algeria 56.88
1991 Bahrain 69.04
1997 Bahrain 70.02
2009 Bahrain 64.32
2013 Bahrain 63.8
2016 Bahrain 63.73
2020 Bahrain 64.11
1992 Comoros 27.11
1995 Djibouti 92.18
2001 Djibouti 92.83
2004 Djibouti 92.98
2006 Djibouti 93.02
2016 Djibouti 93.07
1993 Egypt 43.02
2001 Egypt 50.19
2013 Egypt 47.93
2017 Egypt 48.39
2019 Egypt 50.24
1994 Iraq 48.03
2004 Iraq 52.69
2006 Iraq 53.6
1991 Jordan 73.87
1995 Jordan 74.53
1997 Jordan 75.03
1998 Jordan 75.2
2004 Jordan 70.07
2012 Jordan 73.99
2018 Jordan 76.6
2021 Jordan 79.12
1994 Kuwait 74.38
2000 Kuwait 78.18
2001 Kuwait 78.77
2004 Kuwait 77.43
2014 Kuwait 72.82
2020 Kuwait 72.89
1992 Lebanon 67.97
2009 Lebanon 72.23
2014 Lebanon 73.57
2002 Libya 57
2005 Libya 58.29
2006 Libya 58.62
2009 Libya 60.25
2010 Libya 60.7
2011 Libya 61.71
2015 Libya 63.15

Arab Region | Employment in services, 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 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).
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
682
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