Employment in services in Guinea

38.5% of employed people in Guinea worked in services in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1991.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Guinea, 2025 38.5% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.8percentage points 2024: 37.7%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 155th of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in 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 GuineaWorld
2025 38.5% 50.6%
2024 37.7% 50.3%
2023 37.0% 49.9%
2022 36.6% 49.5%
2021 36.2% 49.6%
2020 36.2% 49.5%
2019 37.6% 50.2%
2018 37.2% 49.7%
2017 36.6% 49.1%
2016 35.8% 48.6%
2015 34.7% 48.1%
2014 34.2% 47.3%
2013 33.3% 46.4%
2012 32.3% 45.6%
2011 31.3% 45.1%
2010 30.1% 44.6%
2009 29.2% 44.2%
2008 28.8% 43.7%
2007 28.0% 43.2%
2006 26.9% 42.9%
2005 26.4% 42.3%
2004 25.7% 41.8%
2003 25.1% 41.1%
2002 24.1% 40.7%
2001 23.7% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.8 percentage points from 37.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 34.7%, the figure has changed by +3.8 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Guinea has the 155th 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 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