Employment in services in Guatemala

48.2% of employed people in Guatemala worked in services in 2025.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Guatemala, 2025 48.2% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.2percentage points 2024: 48.0%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 133rd of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Guatemala 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 GuatemalaWorld
2025 48.2% 50.6%
2024 48.0% 50.3%
2023 47.7% 49.9%
2022 50.8% 49.5%
2021 48.8% 49.6%
2020 49.1% 49.5%
2019 49.9% 50.2%
2018 48.0% 49.7%
2017 49.2% 49.1%
2016 49.6% 48.6%
2015 49.2% 48.1%
2014 49.0% 47.3%
2013 48.7% 46.4%
2012 48.4% 45.6%
2011 42.7% 45.1%
2010 44.5% 44.6%
2009 44.2% 44.2%
2008 43.9% 43.7%
2007 43.6% 43.2%
2006 43.3% 42.9%
2005 43.1% 42.3%
2004 42.9% 41.8%
2003 42.7% 41.1%
2002 42.3% 40.7%
2001 42.0% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 48.0% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 49.2%, the figure has changed by −1.0 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Guatemala has the 133rd 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 Guatemala
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