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🧑‍💼 Largest Service-Sector Workforces

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

📅 2025📏 % of employment181 entries
92.2% – 74.4%74.4% – 65.8%65.4% – 53.0%52.8% – 43.5%41.8% – 11.6%No data
1
🇩🇯Djibouti
92.2%
2
🇱🇺Luxembourg
91.5%
3
🇲🇴Macau
88.6%
4
🇸🇬Singapore
85.9%
5
🇭🇰Hong Kong
85.8%
6
🇳🇱Netherlands
84.5%
7
🇧🇸Bahamas
84.4%
8
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
84.1%
9
🇮🇱Israel
84.1%
10
🇵🇫French Polynesia
83.7%
11
🇬🇧United Kingdom
83.2%
12
🇧🇧Barbados
82.6%
13
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
81.9%
14
🇨🇾Cyprus
81.6%
15
🇸🇪Sweden
81.4%
16
🇲🇹Malta
81.4%
17
🇯🇴Jordan
80.8%
18
🇨🇦Canada
80.1%
19
🇧🇪Belgium
79.8%
20
🇳🇴Norway
79.7%
21
🇩🇰Denmark
79.6%
22
🇺🇸United States
79.6%
23
🇬🇺Guam
79.2%
24
🇦🇺Australia
78.5%
25
🇧🇳Brunei
78.4%
26
🇫🇷France
78.3%
27
🇨🇭Switzerland
78.2%
28
🇮🇸Iceland
78.1%
29
🇮🇪Ireland
77.9%
30
🇲🇪Montenegro
77.6%
31
🇳🇨New Caledonia
77.6%
32
🇪🇸Spain
76.8%
33
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
76.3%
34
🇫🇮Finland
75.7%
35
🇲🇺Mauritius
74.7%
36
🇳🇿New Zealand
74.6%
37
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
74.4%
38
🇻🇪Venezuela
74.4%
39
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
74.0%
40
🇯🇵Japan
74.0%
41
🇿🇦South Africa
73.8%
42
🇰🇼Kuwait
73.5%
43
🇺🇾Uruguay
73.2%
44
🇬🇷Greece
73.0%
45
🇩🇪Germany
73.0%
46
🇵🇹Portugal
72.7%
47
🇦🇹Austria
72.6%
48
🇨🇱Chile
72.4%
49
🇧🇷Brazil
72.2%
50
🇦🇷Argentina
71.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Djibouti ranks first with 92.2%, followed by Luxembourg (91.5%) and Macau (88.6%).

The top two are virtually level: Djibouti and Luxembourg differ by less than 1%.

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 92.2% (Djibouti) to 11.6% (Burundi), with a median of 59.5%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Asia, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Europe, 1 from Africa and 1 from Oceania.

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

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