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Denmark: Employment in industry

18.80percent · 2025-3.2% 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 Denmark from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202518.805
202419.003
202319.258
202219.074
202119.361
202018.886
201918.546
201818.91
201718.938
201619.048
201519.424
201419.37
201319.641
201219.769
201120.035
201019.866
200920.571
200823.255
200723.507
200623.331
200523.892
200423.692
200323.146
200223.486
200125.391
200025.338
199926.925
199826.452
199726.238
199626.394
199527.077
199426.514
199326.124
199226.612
199126.838

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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