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Ghana: Employment in services

47.17percent · 2025+20.3% 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 Ghana from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202547.171
202446.934
202346.357
202245.972
202149.651
202047.376
201946.263
201843.33
201740.478
201639.848
201539.223
201438.694
201338.242
201237.495
201136.777
201035.996
200933.089
200830.371
200727.8
200625.288
200524.857
200424.363
200323.974
200223.59
200123.193
200022.811
199922.39
199821.977
199721.573
199621.023
199520.66
199420.23
199319.867
199219.642
199119.25

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

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