Employment in industry in Mali

8.6% of employed people in Mali worked in industry in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest since 2018.

Measure: Employment in industry Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Mali, 2025 8.6% % of total employment
Change from 2024 −0.1percentage points 2024: 8.7%
World, 2025 23.7% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 166th of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in industry in Mali 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 industry (% of total employment), 2001 to 2025
Period MaliWorld
2025 8.6% 23.7%
2024 8.7% 23.6%
2023 8.6% 23.5%
2022 8.6% 23.6%
2021 8.8% 23.6%
2020 9.3% 23.3%
2019 8.8% 23.5%
2018 7.7% 23.5%
2017 8.2% 23.4%
2016 6.7% 23.3%
2015 8.3% 23.3%
2014 8.0% 23.5%
2013 8.0% 23.5%
2012 8.0% 23.6%
2011 8.1% 23.2%
2010 8.1% 22.9%
2009 8.1% 22.5%
2008 9.6% 22.6%
2007 11.5% 22.5%
2006 13.8% 21.9%
2005 15.3% 21.4%
2004 16.8% 21.0%
2003 17.5% 20.6%
2002 18.0% 20.6%
2001 18.4% 20.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 8.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 8.3%, the figure has changed by +0.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Mali has the 166th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 23.7%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Labour Organization, ILO Modelled Estimates
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SL.IND.EMPL.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1991 to 2025 for Mali
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