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Uruguay: Employment in industry

18.78percent · 2025+0.0% 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 Uruguay from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202518.778
202418.772
202318.793
202217.984
202117.851
202017.406
201917.435
201817.582
201718.084
201618.401
201518.774
201419.28
201319.81
201219.404
201119.071
201019.67
200919.257
200819.823
200719.951
200619.472
200519.424
200419.058
200319.008
200219.956
200121.185
200022.099
199922.256
199822.272
199722.215
199622.13
199522.159
199423.44
199324.857
199224.823
199124.712

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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