Employment in services in European Union
72.9% of employed people in the European Union worked in services in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1991.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
72.9%
Change from 2024
+0.4percentage points
World, 2025
50.6%
Employment in services in European Union 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.
| Period | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.9% | 50.6% |
| 2024 | 72.5% | 50.3% |
| 2023 | 72.1% | 49.9% |
| 2022 | 71.6% | 49.5% |
| 2021 | 71.3% | 49.6% |
| 2020 | 71.1% | 49.5% |
| 2019 | 71.0% | 50.2% |
| 2018 | 70.9% | 49.7% |
| 2017 | 70.7% | 49.1% |
| 2016 | 70.7% | 48.6% |
| 2015 | 70.4% | 48.1% |
| 2014 | 70.1% | 47.3% |
| 2013 | 69.9% | 46.4% |
| 2012 | 69.3% | 45.6% |
| 2011 | 69.0% | 45.1% |
| 2010 | 68.4% | 44.6% |
| 2009 | 67.8% | 44.2% |
| 2008 | 66.6% | 43.7% |
| 2007 | 65.7% | 43.2% |
| 2006 | 65.4% | 42.9% |
| 2005 | 65.0% | 42.3% |
| 2004 | 64.5% | 41.8% |
| 2003 | 63.8% | 41.1% |
| 2002 | 63.2% | 40.7% |
| 2001 | 62.4% | 40.2% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.4 percentage points from 72.5% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 70.4%, the figure has changed by +2.4 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 50.6%.
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