Employment in services in Cambodia

37.7% of employed people in Cambodia worked in services in 2025.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Cambodia, 2025 37.7% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.3percentage points 2024: 37.4%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 156th of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Cambodia 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 CambodiaWorld
2025 37.7% 50.6%
2024 37.4% 50.3%
2023 37.1% 49.9%
2022 36.8% 49.5%
2021 36.5% 49.6%
2020 38.0% 49.5%
2019 35.7% 50.2%
2018 36.0% 49.7%
2017 36.3% 49.1%
2016 36.7% 48.6%
2015 32.6% 48.1%
2014 30.2% 47.3%
2013 31.2% 46.4%
2012 29.0% 45.6%
2011 27.0% 45.1%
2010 29.2% 44.6%
2009 26.3% 44.2%
2008 28.4% 43.7%
2007 27.2% 43.2%
2006 25.9% 42.9%
2005 24.7% 42.3%
2004 23.6% 41.8%
2003 22.3% 41.1%
2002 21.3% 40.7%
2001 20.1% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 37.4% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 32.6%, the figure has changed by +5.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Cambodia has the 156th 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 Cambodia
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