Employment in industry
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.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 186
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
International Labour Organization
ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
declared by worldbank in source
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2025 | 18.90 | percent |
| Albania | 2025 | 21.98 | percent |
| Algeria | 2025 | 32.26 | percent |
| Angola | 2025 | 7.20 | percent |
| Argentina | 2025 | 21.18 | percent |
| Armenia | 2025 | 21.30 | percent |
| Australia | 2025 | 19.29 | percent |
| Austria | 2025 | 24.65 | percent |
| Azerbaijan | 2025 | 15.54 | percent |
| Bahamas | 2025 | 14.79 | percent |
Open in the terminal to chart this series, compare it against other publishers, or export it with its provenance.