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Malaysia: Employment in services

64.86percent · 2025+8.1% 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 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 Malaysia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202564.862
202464.561
202364.254
202263.918
202163.781
202063.363
201961.852
201862.262
201760.989
201661.146
201560.012
201459.683
201359.364
201259.174
201159.677
201059.085
200959.492
200857.368
200756.808
200655.109
200555.633
200455.318
200353.709
200253.089
200151.761
200051.296
199951.764
199851.302
199750.787
199650.32
199549.599
199449.205
199348.797
199248.616
199148.282

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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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