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Dataset · ILO
35 years, 1991–2025 · 182 countries
Employment in services is the share of a country’s working people employed in everything that is neither farming nor industry — trade, transport, finance, health, education and public administration. It is the largest of the three sectors almost everywhere.
This site holds every year from 1991 to 2025, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Employment in Services · the file
0135 years
Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment in Services, 2025Newest | 182 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2024 | 182 | −2 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2023 | 184 | −2 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2022 | 186 | −1 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2021 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2020 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2019 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2018 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2017 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2016 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2015 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
| Employment in Services, 2014 | 187 | ±0 | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: services-employment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 182 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 182 | 0 | |
Employment in services (% of total employment)services_employmentHeadline | The headline figure: Employment in services (% of total employment). | Number · up to 13 decimals | 11.556 | 182 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03187 countries across every year
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 52 | 51 | 51 |
| Americas | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
| Asia | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 48 |
| Europe | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| All | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 186 | 184 | 182 | 182 |
The newest 12 of 35 years.
ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
2 · Their file
Employment in Services 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
4 · Stored as
35 files, one per year
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
An ILO modelled estimate, pulled through the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.SRV.EMPL.ZS). Modelled rather than measured so that one definition applies to every country.
05Reuse
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Employment in Services, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
International Labour Organization (ILO). Employment in Services, 1991–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/services-employment
The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST). Geneva: ILOSTAT.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Employment in Services by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
07Questions
Employment in services is the share of a country’s working people employed in everything that is neither farming nor industry — trade, transport, finance, health, education and public administration. It is the largest of the three sectors almost everywhere.
All 35, from 1991 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.