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Lesotho: Employment in industry

33.04percent · 2025+1.0% 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 Lesotho from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202533.037
202433.108
202332.975
202233.087
202133.025
202033.278
201934.374
201833.507
201733.273
201633.451
201532.72
201431.805
201331.009
201230.411
201129.02
201027.839
200926.483
200826.334
200725.032
200623.938
200522.708
200421.591
200320.865
200219.741
200119.18
200018.376
199917.415
199816.994
199716.538
199615.897
199515.265
199414.999
199314.499
199214.262
199113.841

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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