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Vanuatu: Employment in industry

10.05percent · 2025+4.9% 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 Vanuatu from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202510.045
202410.259
202310.569
202210.657
202110.81
202010.653
201910.789
201810.623
201710.476
20169.896
20159.577
20149.752
20139.718
201210.012
201110.284
201010.351
200910.019
20089.975
20079.645
20069.529
20058.916
20048.632
20038.515
20028.357
20019.005
20009.487
19999.202
19989.348
19979.42
19969.224
19959.233
19949.375
19938.879
19929.054
19919.065

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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