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Eritrea: Employment in industry

12.74percent · 2025-0.8% 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 Eritrea from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202512.742
202412.666
202312.605
202212.556
202112.498
202012.547
201912.896
201812.868
201712.749
201612.897
201512.851
201413.075
201312.895
201213.038
201113.07
201012.971
200912.66
200812.661
200712.633
200612.64
200512.72
200412.848
200312.816
200212.881
200112.768
200012.761
199912.739
199812.765
199712.894
199612.851
199512.723
199412.653
199312.598
199212.48
199112.741

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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