Employment in services in Senegal

47.9% of employed people in Senegal worked in services in 2025.

Measure: Employment in services Unit: % of total employment Data: 1991 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Senegal, 2025 47.9% % of total employment
Change from 2024 +0.8percentage points 2024: 47.1%
World, 2025 50.6% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 134th of 182 See the full ranking

Employment in services in Senegal 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 SenegalWorld
2025 47.9% 50.6%
2024 47.1% 50.3%
2023 46.3% 49.9%
2022 45.9% 49.5%
2021 48.7% 49.6%
2020 52.0% 49.5%
2019 55.9% 50.2%
2018 54.8% 49.7%
2017 53.1% 49.1%
2016 51.0% 48.6%
2015 53.7% 48.1%
2014 51.9% 47.3%
2013 49.8% 46.4%
2012 48.6% 45.6%
2011 47.2% 45.1%
2010 46.1% 44.6%
2009 44.9% 44.2%
2008 44.1% 43.7%
2007 43.4% 43.2%
2006 42.6% 42.9%
2005 41.8% 42.3%
2004 41.0% 41.8%
2003 39.9% 41.1%
2002 39.0% 40.7%
2001 38.4% 40.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.8 percentage points from 47.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 53.7%, the figure has changed by −5.8 percentage points.
  • Among the 182 countries with data for 2025, Senegal has the 134th 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 Senegal
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