Economy Sectors
Compare value added and employment across sectors, countries and years.
About this tool
Choose a country or World and a year from the 2019–2023 snapshot. The three broad sectors follow World Bank definitions: agriculture includes forestry and fishing; industry includes mining, manufacturing, utilities and construction; services covers the remaining service activities. The World row uses the published global aggregate, not the sum of these countries.
GDP share is sector value added divided by the source’s GDP denominator. Value added deducts intermediate consumption from output; it is not revenue or gross production. The shares need not sum to 100%, for example because of product taxes/subsidies or differences in accounting coverage. Some source definitions use value added at factor cost as denominator. Values are not normalized. Employment shares are ILO modeled estimates, not observed headcounts. The two percentage columns have different denominators.
Dollar amounts are value added in current US dollars, displayed in billions. They are neither inflation-adjusted nor purchasing-power adjusted; dollar changes alone do not establish real growth. Missing values remain missing, with no substitution from adjacent years. Zero remains zero. Percent bars use a fixed 0–100 scale; dollar bars use the largest displayed value. Header sorting changes table order independently of the chosen chart measure.
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators and ILO modeled employment estimates, CC BY 4.0. This is an archived snapshot, not a live feed; source revisions may change values later. Sector names link to the selected GDP-share series. Employment series: agriculture, industry, services. Current-dollar value added: agriculture, industry, services.
Only country, year and chart measure are saved on this device. Reset selects the world and the newest year in this snapshot, with GDP share. The open chart and table sort are not saved.
The ILO series combines reported and estimated observations. Imputed values can have substantial uncertainty and should not be used to construct country league tables. This snapshot does not identify each observation’s estimation status; use it for broad sector structure and consult the original methodology.