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China: Employment in services

46.53percent · 2025+9.7% 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 China from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202546.531
202446.151
202345.772
202244.989
202145.597
202045.268
201944.519
201843.885
201743.346
201642.933
201542.4
201440.599
201338.5
201236.1
201135.7
201034.6
200934.1
200833.2
200732.4
200632.2
200531.4
200430.6
200329.3
200228.6
200127.7
200025.313
199926.9
199826.7
199726.4
199626
199524.8
199423.001
199321.2
199219.8
199118.928

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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