Employment in services by country, 2025
People working in trade, transport, hospitality, finance, public administration and other services as a share of all employed people. ILO modelled estimates.
182 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Djibouti (92.2%). Lowest: Burundi (11.6%). The median is 59.5%.
Highest 10
- 1. Djibouti 92.2%
- 2. Luxembourg 91.5%
- 3. Macao SAR, China 88.6%
- 4. Singapore 85.9%
- 5. Hong Kong SAR, China 85.8%
- 6. Channel Islands 85.3%
- 7. Netherlands 84.5%
- 8. Bahamas 84.4%
- 9. Puerto Rico (US) 84.1%
- 10. Israel 84.1%
Lowest 10
- 182. Burundi 11.6%
- 181. Niger 17.7%
- 180. Chad 19.8%
- 179. Central African Republic 20.5%
- 178. Mozambique 20.6%
- 177. Madagascar 20.9%
- 176. North Korea 23.5%
- 175. Laos 24.0%
- 174. Tanzania 27.3%
- 173. Malawi 27.7%
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 182. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
In short
- Among the 182 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Djibouti (92.2%) and the lowest Burundi (11.6%).
- Half of the countries are above 59.5% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 176 countries and fell in 6.
- The figure for the world was 50.6% in 2025, against 49.5% in 2020 (+1.1 percentage points).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Djibouti | 92.2% | 2025 | |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 91.5% | 2025 | |
| 3 | Macao SAR, China | 88.6% | 2025 | |
| 4 | Singapore | 85.9% | 2025 | |
| 5 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 85.8% | 2025 | |
| 6 | Channel Islands | 85.3% | 2025 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 84.5% | 2025 | |
| 8 | Bahamas | 84.4% | 2025 | |
| 9 | Puerto Rico (US) | 84.1% | 2025 | |
| 10 | Israel | 84.1% | 2025 | |
| 11 | French Polynesia | 83.7% | 2025 | |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 83.2% | 2025 | |
| 13 | Barbados | 82.6% | 2025 | |
| 14 | US Virgin Islands | 81.9% | 2025 | |
| 15 | Cyprus | 81.6% | 2025 | |
| 16 | Sweden | 81.4% | 2025 | |
| 17 | Malta | 81.4% | 2025 | |
| 18 | Jordan | 80.8% | 2025 | |
| 19 | Canada | 80.1% | 2025 | |
| 20 | Belgium | 79.8% | 2025 | |
| 21 | Norway | 79.7% | 2025 | |
| 22 | Denmark | 79.6% | 2025 | |
| 23 | United States | 79.6% | 2025 | |
| 24 | Guam | 79.2% | 2025 | |
| 25 | Australia | 78.5% | 2025 | |
| 26 | Brunei | 78.4% | 2025 | |
| 27 | France | 78.3% | 2025 | |
| 28 | Switzerland | 78.2% | 2025 | |
| 29 | Iceland | 78.1% | 2025 | |
| 30 | Ireland | 77.9% | 2025 | |
| 31 | Montenegro | 77.6% | 2025 | |
| 32 | New Caledonia | 77.6% | 2025 | |
| 33 | Spain | 76.8% | 2025 | |
| 34 | Saint Lucia | 76.3% | 2025 | |
| 35 | Finland | 75.7% | 2025 | |
| 36 | Mauritius | 74.7% | 2025 | |
| 37 | New Zealand | 74.6% | 2025 | |
| 38 | Saudi Arabia | 74.4% | 2025 | |
| 39 | Venezuela | 74.4% | 2025 | |
| 40 | Dominican Republic | 74.0% | 2025 | |
| 41 | Japan | 74.0% | 2025 | |
| 42 | South Africa | 73.8% | 2025 | |
| 43 | Kuwait | 73.5% | 2025 | |
| 44 | Uruguay | 73.2% | 2025 | |
| 45 | Greece | 73.0% | 2025 | |
| 46 | Germany | 73.0% | 2025 | |
| 47 | Portugal | 72.7% | 2025 | |
| 48 | Austria | 72.6% | 2025 | |
| 49 | Chile | 72.4% | 2025 | |
| 50 | Brazil | 72.2% | 2025 | |
| 51 | Argentina | 71.8% | 2025 | |
| 52 | Maldives | 71.8% | 2025 | |
| 53 | South Korea | 71.5% | 2025 | |
| 54 | Latvia | 71.5% | 2025 | |
| 55 | Libya | 71.4% | 2025 | |
| 56 | Trinidad and Tobago | 71.3% | 2025 | |
| 57 | Estonia | 71.0% | 2025 | |
| 58 | Italy | 70.2% | 2025 | |
| 59 | Costa Rica | 70.0% | 2025 | |
| 60 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 69.8% | 2025 | |
| 61 | Lithuania | 69.4% | 2025 | |
| 62 | Croatia | 69.3% | 2025 | |
| 63 | Russia | 69.1% | 2025 | |
| 64 | Jamaica | 68.9% | 2025 | |
| 65 | Kazakhstan | 68.8% | 2025 | |
| 66 | Belize | 68.5% | 2025 | |
| 67 | United Arab Emirates | 68.0% | 2025 | |
| 68 | Cabo Verde | 67.7% | 2025 | |
| 69 | Cuba | 67.6% | 2025 | |
| 70 | Bulgaria | 67.4% | 2025 | |
| 71 | Panama | 67.0% | 2025 | |
| 72 | Suriname | 66.9% | 2025 | |
| 73 | Botswana | 66.2% | 2025 | |
| 74 | Colombia | 65.8% | 2025 | |
| 75 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 65.4% | 2025 | |
| 76 | Hungary | 65.4% | 2025 | |
| 77 | Iraq | 65.3% | 2025 | |
| 78 | Paraguay | 65.1% | 2025 | |
| 79 | Malaysia | 64.9% | 2025 | |
| 80 | Slovenia | 64.4% | 2025 | |
| 81 | Bahrain | 64.3% | 2025 | |
| 82 | Mexico | 64.1% | 2025 | |
| 83 | Poland | 63.8% | 2025 | |
| 84 | Slovakia | 63.3% | 2025 | |
| 85 | El Salvador | 63.0% | 2025 | |
| 86 | Czechia | 62.4% | 2025 | |
| 87 | Namibia | 61.1% | 2025 | |
| 88 | North Macedonia | 60.9% | 2025 | |
| 89 | Qatar | 60.4% | 2025 | |
| 90 | Peru | 60.1% | 2025 | |
| 91 | Philippines | 59.5% | 2025 | |
| 92 | Belarus | 59.5% | 2025 | |
| 93 | Eswatini | 58.7% | 2025 | |
| 94 | Syria | 58.5% | 2025 | |
| 95 | Türkiye | 58.5% | 2025 | |
| 96 | Algeria | 58.3% | 2025 | |
| 97 | Kyrgyzstan | 57.7% | 2025 | |
| 98 | Yemen | 57.3% | 2025 | |
| 99 | Samoa | 57.2% | 2025 | |
| 100 | Guyana | 56.7% | 2025 | |
| 101 | Romania | 56.5% | 2025 | |
| 102 | Honduras | 55.9% | 2025 | |
| 103 | Bolivia | 55.5% | 2025 | |
| 104 | Papua New Guinea | 55.3% | 2025 | |
| 105 | Serbia | 54.9% | 2025 | |
| 106 | Oman | 54.6% | 2025 | |
| 107 | Tunisia | 54.3% | 2025 | |
| 108 | Gambia | 53.6% | 2025 | |
| 109 | Egypt | 53.1% | 2025 | |
| 110 | Tonga | 53.0% | 2025 | |
| 111 | Mauritania | 52.8% | 2025 | |
| 112 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 52.7% | 2025 | |
| 113 | Nicaragua | 52.6% | 2025 | |
| 114 | Gabon | 52.3% | 2025 | |
| 115 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 52.2% | 2025 | |
| 116 | Armenia | 51.7% | 2025 | |
| 117 | Fiji | 51.7% | 2025 | |
| 118 | Iran | 51.7% | 2025 | |
| 119 | Comoros | 51.6% | 2025 | |
| 120 | Ecuador | 50.9% | 2025 | |
| 121 | Liberia | 50.5% | 2025 | |
| 122 | Azerbaijan | 50.2% | 2025 | |
| 123 | Uzbekistan | 50.2% | 2025 | |
| 124 | Timor-Leste | 50.2% | 2025 | |
| 125 | Indonesia | 50.2% | 2025 | |
| 126 | Solomon Islands | 50.0% | 2025 | |
| 127 | Mongolia | 49.9% | 2025 | |
| 128 | Turkmenistan | 49.5% | 2025 | |
| 129 | Georgia | 49.5% | 2025 | |
| 130 | Nigeria | 49.5% | 2025 | |
| 131 | Thailand | 49.2% | 2025 | |
| 132 | Morocco | 48.3% | 2025 | |
| 133 | Guatemala | 48.2% | 2025 | |
| 134 | Senegal | 47.9% | 2025 | |
| 135 | Sri Lanka | 47.8% | 2025 | |
| 136 | Albania | 47.2% | 2025 | |
| 137 | Ghana | 47.2% | 2025 | |
| 138 | Rwanda | 46.5% | 2025 | |
| 139 | China | 46.5% | 2025 | |
| 140 | Nepal | 45.8% | 2025 | |
| 141 | Vanuatu | 45.4% | 2025 | |
| 142 | Haiti | 44.6% | 2025 | |
| 143 | Togo | 44.2% | 2025 | |
| 144 | Republic of the Congo | 44.2% | 2025 | |
| 145 | Sierra Leone | 44.0% | 2025 | |
| 146 | Cameroon | 43.5% | 2025 | |
| 147 | Bhutan | 41.8% | 2025 | |
| 148 | Kenya | 41.7% | 2025 | |
| 149 | Benin | 41.4% | 2025 | |
| 150 | Angola | 40.9% | 2025 | |
| 151 | Côte d'Ivoire | 40.3% | 2025 | |
| 152 | Viet Nam | 40.1% | 2025 | |
| 153 | Tajikistan | 39.1% | 2025 | |
| 154 | Pakistan | 38.5% | 2025 | |
| 155 | Guinea | 38.5% | 2025 | |
| 156 | Cambodia | 37.7% | 2025 | |
| 157 | Bangladesh | 37.7% | 2025 | |
| 158 | Moldova | 36.9% | 2025 | |
| 159 | Myanmar | 36.9% | 2025 | |
| 160 | Lesotho | 36.1% | 2025 | |
| 161 | Zambia | 35.2% | 2025 | |
| 162 | Equatorial Guinea | 34.7% | 2025 | |
| 163 | Zimbabwe | 34.2% | 2025 | |
| 164 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 33.5% | 2025 | |
| 165 | Ethiopia | 33.4% | 2025 | |
| 166 | India | 32.6% | 2025 | |
| 167 | Eritrea | 31.8% | 2025 | |
| 168 | Burkina Faso | 31.6% | 2025 | |
| 169 | Afghanistan | 29.5% | 2025 | |
| 170 | Guinea-Bissau | 29.2% | 2025 | |
| 171 | Mali | 28.4% | 2025 | |
| 172 | Uganda | 27.9% | 2025 | |
| 173 | Malawi | 27.7% | 2025 | |
| 174 | Tanzania | 27.3% | 2025 | |
| 175 | Laos | 24.0% | 2025 | |
| 176 | North Korea | 23.5% | 2025 | |
| 177 | Madagascar | 20.9% | 2025 | |
| 178 | Mozambique | 20.6% | 2025 | |
| 179 | Central African Republic | 20.5% | 2025 | |
| 180 | Chad | 19.8% | 2025 | |
| 181 | Niger | 17.7% | 2025 | |
| 182 | Burundi | 11.6% | 2025 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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