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Sierra Leone: Employment in services

44.04percent · 2025+20.3% 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 Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202544.037
202443.573
202343.234
202242.593
202142.153
202042.31
201943.89
201843.227
201741.675
201639.265
201536.597
201436.28
201334.98
201232.901
201131.014
201029.992
200928.868
200828.251
200727.326
200626.23
200525.572
200425.031
200327.2
200226.645
200125.103
200026.312
199925.691
199825.783
199725.587
199626.197
199525.955
199426.605
199326.708
199226.462
199127.562

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 services. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-services (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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