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Peru: Employment in industry

16.79percent · 2025-1.7% 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 Peru from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.787
202416.782
202316.358
202216.699
202116.7
202015.629
201915.958
201815.966
201716.073
201616.645
201517.071
201416.97
201317.428
201217.388
201116.787
201017.003
200916.585
200816.488
200716.355
200616.16
200515.996
200415.924
200315.886
200215.903
200115.845
200016.005
199916.094
199816.248
199716.444
199616.372
199516.469
199416.374
199316.103
199216.04
199116.217

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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