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Malawi: Employment in services

27.68percent · 2025+1.8% 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 Malawi from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202527.679
202427.435
202327.372
202227.267
202127.395
202027.667
201928.591
201828.135
201727.716
201627.368
201527.196
201426.949
201326.509
201226.004
201125.936
201025.521
200924.899
200824.095
200723.405
200622.465
200522.05
200421.765
200321.284
200220.828
200120.799
200021.401
199921.436
199821.339
199721.168
199620.759
199520.32
199419.275
199318.973
199218.33
199119.167

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 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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