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Kuwait: Employment in services

73.50percent · 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 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 Kuwait from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202573.497
202473.352
202372.845
202272.468
202172.687
202073.172
201972.429
201872.978
201772.778
201672.81
201572.909
201473.006
201372.879
201272.881
201173.176
201073.409
200973.2
200872.345
200774.103
200675.42
200576.603
200478.347
200379.655
200279.238
200178.803
200078.147
199977.731
199877.015
199776.24
199675.56
199574.85
199474.948
199375.278
199275.835
199176.304

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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