• Employment figures by region and sector 2020

The sector employing the largest number of people was the services sector for most of the presented regions in 2020. Only in Southern, South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific as well as Sub-Saharan Africa the agriculture industry was the main employer. In 2020, 270.3 million people in Southern Asia worked in the agriculture sector.

Number of employees worldwide in 2020, by region and sector (in millions)

Characteristic	Agriculture	Industry	Services
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-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-

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Release date

2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

The source does not mention a release date. The date of access was taken as the release date.

Employed is defined as all people of working age who during a specified period were in the following categories: a) paid employment, or b) self-employment.

To access the data, select Employment by sector under Select an indicator, Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Arab States, Central and Western Africa, Eastern Asia, South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific, Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe under Location, Total under Gender, and 2017 under From and To.