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Uruguay: Employment in services

73.15percent · 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 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 Uruguay from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202573.151
202472.918
202372.64
202273.33
202173.155
202073.497
201973.627
201873.289
201772.369
201672.611
201571.588
201470.738
201370.043
201271.187
201170.25
201067.752
200968.825
200868.652
200768.424
200668.838
200568.424
200468.066
200369.016
200268.781
200167.622
200066.979
199966.503
199866.271
199765.944
199665.487
199564.969
199464.83
199364.27
199262.932
199162.476

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 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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