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Nepal: Employment in industry

31.28percent · 2025+7.6% 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 Nepal from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202531.279
202431.027
202330.849
202230.62
202130.391
202030.238
201930.13
201829.876
201729.533
201629.246
201529.068
201428.765
201328.422
201228.246
201128.135
201027.893
200927.465
200827.092
200726.922
200626.761
200526.553
200426.42
200326.217
200226.086
200126.11
200026.047
199925.942
199825.866
199725.95
199626.028
199525.686
199425.378
199325.03
199224.742
199124.938

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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