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Germany: Employment in services

72.95percent · 2025+2.8% 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 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 Germany from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202572.955
202472.616
202372.393
202271.953
202171.407
202071.656
201971.663
201871.385
201771.314
201671.356
201570.976
201470.477
201370.815
201270.229
201170.614
201069.625
200969.532
200869.045
200767.348
200667.635
200567.835
200466.392
200366.198
200265.146
200164.602
200063.831
199963.301
199862.83
199762.384
199661.793
199560.825
199460.251
199359.155
199258.42
199157.924

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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