Employment in services in Equatorial Guinea

34.7% of employed people in Equatorial Guinea worked in services in 2025.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Equatorial Guinea, 2025 34.7% % of total employment
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 34.8%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 162nd of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Equatorial Guinea 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 Equatorial GuineaWorld
2025 34.7% 50.6%
2024 34.8% 50.3%
2023 34.4% 49.9%
2022 34.3% 49.5%
2021 34.2% 49.6%
2020 33.7% 49.5%
2019 33.9% 50.2%
2018 34.0% 49.7%
2017 32.9% 49.1%
2016 33.3% 48.6%
2015 33.4% 48.1%
2014 33.5% 47.3%
2013 33.4% 46.4%
2012 33.5% 45.6%
2011 33.4% 45.1%
2010 33.6% 44.6%
2009 34.7% 44.2%
2008 35.1% 43.7%
2007 34.8% 43.2%
2006 34.4% 42.9%
2005 34.5% 42.3%
2004 34.1% 41.8%
2003 33.3% 41.1%
2002 33.1% 40.7%
2001 32.7% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of 0 percentage points from 34.8% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 33.4%, the figure has changed by +1.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Equatorial Guinea has the 162nd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 50.6%.

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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 Equatorial Guinea
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