Employment in services in Chad

19.8% of employed people in Chad worked in services in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 2019.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Chad, 2025 19.8% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.2percentage points 2024: 19.6%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 180th of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Chad 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 ChadWorld
2025 19.8% 50.6%
2024 19.6% 50.3%
2023 19.4% 49.9%
2022 19.1% 49.5%
2021 19.3% 49.6%
2020 19.5% 49.5%
2019 20.9% 50.2%
2018 20.7% 49.7%
2017 20.4% 49.1%
2016 20.1% 48.6%
2015 19.7% 48.1%
2014 19.4% 47.3%
2013 19.2% 46.4%
2012 18.7% 45.6%
2011 18.6% 45.1%
2010 18.3% 44.6%
2009 18.3% 44.2%
2008 17.9% 43.7%
2007 17.6% 43.2%
2006 17.4% 42.9%
2005 17.2% 42.3%
2004 17.0% 41.8%
2003 16.9% 41.1%
2002 16.7% 40.7%
2001 16.5% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 19.6% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 19.7%, the figure has changed by +0.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Chad has the 180th 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 Chad
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