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Botswana: Employment in industry

15.77percent · 2025-2.9% 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 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). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Botswana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202515.773
202415.749
202315.79
202215.7
202115.952
202015.04
201916.509
201816.423
201716.389
201616.344
201516.236
201416.276
201316.177
201216.03
201116.021
201015.807
200915.555
200814.868
200714.169
200613.502
200515.414
200417.509
200319.847
200220.801
200121.778
200018.596
199919.205
199819.911
199720.758
199621.86
199521.852
199421.708
199321.506
199221.392
199121.271

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Employment in industry. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-industry (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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