Employment in services in OECD members
74.0% of employed people in OECD member countries worked in services in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1991.
OECD members is a group: OECD member countries as grouped by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
OECD members, 2025
74.0%
Change from 2024
+0.2percentage points
World, 2025
50.6%
Employment in services in OECD members over time
View
OECD members
World
×
The chart loads when you scroll to it. The table below shows the same data.
The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of total employment. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | OECD members | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74.0% | 50.6% |
| 2024 | 73.8% | 50.3% |
| 2023 | 73.5% | 49.9% |
| 2022 | 73.2% | 49.5% |
| 2021 | 73.0% | 49.6% |
| 2020 | 72.8% | 49.5% |
| 2019 | 72.7% | 50.2% |
| 2018 | 72.4% | 49.7% |
| 2017 | 72.3% | 49.1% |
| 2016 | 72.3% | 48.6% |
| 2015 | 72.0% | 48.1% |
| 2014 | 71.8% | 47.3% |
| 2013 | 71.7% | 46.4% |
| 2012 | 71.5% | 45.6% |
| 2011 | 71.3% | 45.1% |
| 2010 | 71.2% | 44.6% |
| 2009 | 71.0% | 44.2% |
| 2008 | 69.9% | 43.7% |
| 2007 | 69.3% | 43.2% |
| 2006 | 69.0% | 42.9% |
| 2005 | 68.7% | 42.3% |
| 2004 | 68.3% | 41.8% |
| 2003 | 67.7% | 41.1% |
| 2002 | 67.2% | 40.7% |
| 2001 | 66.6% | 40.2% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 73.8% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 72.0%, the figure has changed by +2.0 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 50.6%.