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Kuwait: Employment in industry

24.61percent · 2025-1.1% 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 Kuwait from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202524.612
202424.721
202325.204
202225.565
202125.322
202024.812
201925.531
201824.928
201725.113
201625.041
201524.892
201424.729
201324.81
201224.763
201124.42
201024.15
200924.331
200825.142
200723.317
200621.935
200520.694
200419.049
200317.841
200218.296
200118.778
200019.487
199919.971
199820.764
199721.579
199622.306
199523.071
199422.89
199322.455
199221.79
199121.264

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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