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Spain: Employment in industry

19.85percent · 2025-2.2% 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 Spain from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202519.851
202420.092
202320.027
202220.461
202120.672
202020.808
201920.464
201820.271
201720.037
201619.693
201520.306
201419.191
201320.118
201220.635
201121.43
201023.191
200924.487
200827.622
200729.112
200629.235
200529.57
200430.207
200330.714
200231.039
200131.46
200030.828
199930.678
199830.509
199729.913
199629.467
199530.204
199430.259
199330.992
199231.708
199132.042

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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