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Australia: Employment in services

78.53percent · 2025+1.6% since 2015

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). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Australia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202578.531
202478.41
202378.17
202278.553
202178.001
202078.043
201978.383
201877.496
201777.974
201677.391
201577.298
201476.221
201376.013
201275.55
201175.384
201074.766
200974.57
200874.302
200774.683
200674.494
200574.51
200474.166
200374.296
200273.749
200173.5
200072.504
199972.756
199872.549
199772.134
199671.975
199571.55
199470.907
199370.553
199270.643
199170.132

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Employment in services. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-services (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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