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Mauritania: Employment in services

52.83percent · 2025+6.0% 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 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 Mauritania from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202552.835
202452.281
202351.768
202251.029
202150.43
202050.591
201951.831
201851.213
201750.75
201650.206
201549.854
201449.32
201348.706
201248.202
201147.636
201047.067
200946.48
200845.89
200745.372
200644.883
200544.169
200443.471
200342.889
200242.281
200141.772
200041.415
199941.03
199840.728
199740.326
199639.993
199539.601
199439.232
199339.04
199238.793
199138.516

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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