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Benin: Employment in services

41.44percent · 2025+2.4% 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 Benin from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202541.442
202440.667
202339.84
202239.016
202138.523
202038.766
201940.245
201840.3
201740.064
201640.044
201540.491
201441.057
201340.986
201239.377
201137.913
201037.505
200937.31
200837.075
200736.52
200635.944
200535.676
200435.664
200335.449
200235.221
200134.999
200034.67
199934.246
199833.995
199733.83
199633.485
199533.335
199432.809
199332.875
199232.673
199132.561

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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