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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682
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Arab Region | Employment in services, percent of total employment, modeled ILO estimate (Arab countries, 1991–2021)
47.99 Palestine 1994
48.86 Palestine 1998
63.51 Palestine 2010
61.58 Palestine 2014
62.41 Palestine 2016
55.59 Yemen 2008
56.86 Yemen 2010
57.93 Yemen 2016
46.51 Somalia 1991
46.15 Somalia 1993
44.9 Somalia 1995
45.79 Somalia 2002
46.32 Somalia 2004
46.57 Somalia 2005
52.3 Somalia 2015
34.39 Sudan 2001
34.65 Sudan 2002
36.95 Sudan 2007
39.65 Syria 1994
52.55 Syria 2006
51.8 Syria 2007
52.58 Syria 2008
60.9 Syria 2013
65.44 Syria 2018
61.9 United Arab Emirates 1992
62.61 United Arab Emirates 1995
63.97 United Arab Emirates 2001
39.23 Mauritania 1992
39.61 Mauritania 1994
40.49 Mauritania 1997
45.44 Mauritania 2007
46.34 Mauritania 2009
50.25 Mauritania 2017
51.45 Mauritania 2020
35.38 Morocco 2001
35.92 Morocco 2003
38.36 Morocco 2011
41.26 Morocco 2015
41.95 Morocco 2016
83.3 Oman 1999
82.42 Oman 2000
73.14 Oman 2005
70.65 Oman 2006
65.2 Oman 2008
57.37 Oman 2014
48.06 Oman 2020
59.31 Qatar 2001
55.96 Qatar 2005
42.15 Qatar 2010
44.25 Qatar 2017
69.06 Saudi Arabia 2002
69.08 Saudi Arabia 2004
69.75 Saudi Arabia 2017
51.44 Algeria 1995
52.37 Algeria 1998
56.88 Algeria 2009
69.04 Bahrain 1991
70.02 Bahrain 1997
64.32 Bahrain 2009
63.8 Bahrain 2013
63.73 Bahrain 2016
64.11 Bahrain 2020
27.11 Comoros 1992
92.18 Djibouti 1995
92.83 Djibouti 2001
92.98 Djibouti 2004
93.02 Djibouti 2006
93.07 Djibouti 2016
43.02 Egypt 1993
50.19 Egypt 2001
47.93 Egypt 2013
48.39 Egypt 2017
50.24 Egypt 2019
48.03 Iraq 1994
52.69 Iraq 2004
53.6 Iraq 2006
73.87 Jordan 1991
74.53 Jordan 1995
75.03 Jordan 1997
75.2 Jordan 1998
70.07 Jordan 2004
73.99 Jordan 2012
76.6 Jordan 2018
79.12 Jordan 2021
74.38 Kuwait 1994
78.18 Kuwait 2000
78.77 Kuwait 2001
77.43 Kuwait 2004
72.82 Kuwait 2014
72.89 Kuwait 2020
67.97 Lebanon 1992
72.23 Lebanon 2009
73.57 Lebanon 2014
57 Libya 2002
58.29 Libya 2005
58.62 Libya 2006
60.25 Libya 2009
60.7 Libya 2010
61.71 Libya 2011
63.15 Libya 2015
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
Source