Data · Prices, labour & income
Employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate): Vietnam, 1991–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 40.1 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.SRV.EMPL.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The services sector consists of wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social, and personal services, in accordance with divisions 6-9 (ISIC 2) or categories G-Q (ISIC 3) or categories G-U (ISIC 4).
What the series shows
The series runs from 1991 to 2025 (35 years of data). It moved from 18.7 to 40.1 %, a change of 114.4%. The highest value was 40.1 in 2025 and the lowest 18.7 in 1991. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.1 |
| 2024 | 39.8 |
| 2023 | 39.5 |
| 2022 | 35.9 |
| 2021 | 37.8 |
| 2020 | 36.3 |
| 2019 | 35.9 |
| 2018 | 35.6 |
| 2017 | 34.1 |
| 2016 | 33.4 |
| 2015 | 33.2 |
| 2014 | 32.2 |
| 2013 | 32.0 |
| 2012 | 31.4 |
| 2011 | 30.4 |
| 2010 | 29.6 |
| 2009 | 30.6 |
| 2008 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 30.3 |
| 2006 | 29.9 |
| 2005 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 26.3 |
| 2003 | 25.4 |
| 2002 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 23.5 |
| 2000 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 25.1 |
| 1997 | 23.5 |
| 1996 | 20.8 |
| 1995 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 19.6 |
| 1992 | 19.2 |
| 1991 | 18.7 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 40.1 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 49.2 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 50.2 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 64.9 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 59.5 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 85.9 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 37.7 |
| Laos | 2025 | 24.0 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 36.9 |
| China | 2025 | 46.5 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Employment in services (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.SRV.EMPL.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sl_srv_empl_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.