Data · Growth & economic structure
Services, value added (% of GDP): Vietnam, 1986–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 42.74 % GDP
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Services industries correspond to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 45-99 and includes wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, real estate, renting and business activities, public administration and defence, compulsory social security, education, health and social work, other community, social and personal service activities, private households with employed persons, and extra-territorial organizations and bodies. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1986 to 2025 (40 years of data). It moved from 33.06 to 42.74 % GDP, a change of 29.3%. The highest value was 44.06 in 1995 and the lowest 29.74 in 1988. 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 (% GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.74 |
| 2024 | 42.35 |
| 2023 | 42.28 |
| 2022 | 41.14 |
| 2021 | 41.26 |
| 2020 | 41.83 |
| 2019 | 42.47 |
| 2018 | 42.17 |
| 2017 | 42.58 |
| 2016 | 42.85 |
| 2015 | 42.19 |
| 2014 | 40.92 |
| 2013 | 40.54 |
| 2012 | 39.12 |
| 2011 | 38.91 |
| 2010 | 40.63 |
| 2009 | 43.44 |
| 2008 | 42.51 |
| 2007 | 42.83 |
| 2006 | 42.69 |
| 2005 | 42.57 |
| 2004 | 37.98 |
| 2003 | 37.99 |
| 2002 | 38.48 |
| 2001 | 38.63 |
| 2000 | 38.73 |
| 1999 | 40.07 |
| 1998 | 41.73 |
| 1997 | 42.15 |
| 1996 | 42.51 |
| 1995 | 44.06 |
| 1994 | 43.70 |
| 1993 | 41.23 |
| 1992 | 38.80 |
| 1991 | 35.72 |
| 1990 | 38.59 |
| 1989 | 34.99 |
| 1988 | 29.74 |
| 1987 | 31.08 |
| 1986 | 33.06 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 42.74 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 60.18 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 43.94 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 54.83 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 64.42 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 71.59 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 34.98 |
| Laos | 2025 | 43.57 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 38.50 |
| China | 2025 | 57.70 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Services, value added (% of GDP), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.SRV.TOTL.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 nv_srv_totl_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.