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Employment in industry as a share of total employment (ILO modeled estimates).

📅 2025📏 % of employment181 entries
39.4% – 26.0%25.9% – 20.6%20.4% – 17.8%17.7% – 14.2%14.0% – 3.1%No data
1
🇴🇲Oman
39.4%
2
🇶🇦Qatar
38.0%
3
🇧🇭Bahrain
34.9%
4
🇨🇿Czechia
34.9%
5
🇻🇳Vietnam
34.8%
6
🇮🇷Iran
34.7%
7
🇸🇰Slovakia
34.5%
8
🇹🇳Tunisia
33.3%
9
🇱🇸Lesotho
33.0%
10
🇷🇴Romania
32.6%
11
🇩🇿Algeria
32.3%
12
🇸🇮Slovenia
32.0%
13
🇨🇳China
31.8%
14
🇳🇵Nepal
31.3%
15
🇬🇾Guyana
31.1%
16
🇧🇾Belarus
31.1%
17
🇲🇰North Macedonia
30.6%
18
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
30.6%
19
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
30.6%
20
🇭🇺Hungary
30.5%
21
🇵🇱Poland
30.0%
22
🇪🇬Egypt
29.4%
23
🇰🇭Cambodia
28.9%
24
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
28.6%
25
🇧🇬Bulgaria
27.9%
26
🇹🇷Türkiye
27.3%
27
🇷🇸Serbia
27.1%
28
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
26.8%
29
🇸🇿Eswatini
26.7%
30
🇮🇶Iraq
26.5%
31
🇮🇹Italy
26.4%
32
🇭🇷Croatia
26.4%
33
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
26.3%
34
🇸🇷Suriname
26.1%
35
🇪🇪Estonia
26.0%
36
🇩🇪Germany
26.0%
37
🇲🇾Malaysia
26.0%
38
🇱🇹Lithuania
25.9%
39
🇷🇺Russia
25.8%
40
🇮🇳India
25.8%
41
🇵🇰Pakistan
25.3%
42
🇸🇾Syria
25.2%
43
🇦🇹Austria
24.6%
44
🇰🇼Kuwait
24.6%
45
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
24.6%
46
🇵🇹Portugal
24.6%
47
🇲🇽Mexico
24.5%
48
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
24.2%
49
🇲🇦Morocco
23.8%
50
🇰🇷South Korea
23.4%

Highlights

As of 2025, Oman ranks first with 39.4%, followed by Qatar (38.0%) and Bahrain (34.9%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 39.4% (Oman) to 3.1% (Burundi), with a median of 18.9%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 3 from Europe and 2 from Africa.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in industry (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: % of employment.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Employment in industry (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026