Employment in services in Bahrain

64.3% of employed people in Bahrain worked in services in 2025.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Bahrain, 2025 64.3% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.2percentage points 2024: 64.1%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 81st of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Bahrain over time

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% of total employment. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Employment in services (% of total employment), 2001 to 2025
Period BahrainWorld
2025 64.3% 50.6%
2024 64.1% 50.3%
2023 64.0% 49.9%
2022 63.9% 49.5%
2021 63.9% 49.6%
2020 64.5% 49.5%
2019 63.9% 50.2%
2018 63.8% 49.7%
2017 63.7% 49.1%
2016 63.6% 48.6%
2015 63.8% 48.1%
2014 63.7% 47.3%
2013 63.8% 46.4%
2012 63.9% 45.6%
2011 63.7% 45.1%
2010 63.2% 44.6%
2009 64.3% 44.2%
2008 64.1% 43.7%
2007 65.2% 43.2%
2006 66.2% 42.9%
2005 67.4% 42.3%
2004 68.4% 41.8%
2003 69.4% 41.1%
2002 69.8% 40.7%
2001 69.9% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 64.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 63.8%, the figure has changed by +0.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Bahrain has the 81st highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 50.6%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SL.SRV.EMPL.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1991 to 2025 for Bahrain
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates