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Namibia: Employment in industry

16.55percent · 2025-2.7% 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 Namibia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.547
202416.472
202316.392
202216.281
202116.166
202016.033
201916.216
201816.221
201717.627
201619.334
201517.003
201414.832
201314.443
201213.884
201113.716
201013.551
200913.857
200814.307
200714.629
200614.94
200515.23
200415.68
200314.893
200214.239
200113.587
200013.094
199913.751
199814.434
199715.157
199615.03
199514.881
199414.776
199315.182
199215.811
199116.164

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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