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Employment in Industry, 2021

2021, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Employment in Industry, 2021 covers 187 countries. Qatar is highest, at 40.92005; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.70625. The middle country reads 19.12493. Against 2020, 187 values changed (113 up, 74 down), the same countries are covered.

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Employment in Industry · Data for 2021

HighestQatar

40.92005

LowestSouth Sudan

1.70625

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Employment in Industry, 2021, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Employment in Industry, 2021: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia40.92005
2OmanOMNWestern Asia40.29913
3CzechiaCZEEastern Europe36.82029
4SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe36.48158
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia35.15364
6IranIRNSouthern Asia34.64737
7TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa33.93715
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia33.12557
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa33.02457
10RomaniaROUEastern Europe32.94301
11ChinaCHNEastern Asia31.53424
12AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa31.49645
13HungaryHUNEastern Europe31.38503
14United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia30.87757
15North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe30.86514
16PolandPOLEastern Europe30.69759
17Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe30.59166
18BelarusBLREastern Europe30.45103
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia30.39131
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe30.01679
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe29.99488
22PalestinePSEWestern Asia29.10836
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe29.02043
24TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia28.81957
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe28.52197

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar40.92005
  2. 2Oman40.29913
  3. 3Czechia36.82029
  4. 4Slovakia36.48158
  5. 5Bahrain35.15364

Lowest

  1. 187South Sudan1.70625
  2. 186Burundi3.05983
  3. 185Angola5.71757
  4. 184Djibouti6.06375
  5. 183Ethiopia6.30730

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 19.12493. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 187 in both
  • 113 · 74rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2021). Employment in Industry, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-employment/2021

0635 held

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07Questions

Employment in Industry, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest employment in industry in Employment in Industry, 2021?

Qatar, at 40.92005, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Employment in Industry, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Employment in Industry, 2021 cover?

187.

Where can I download Employment in Industry, 2021?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Employment in Industry, 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Employment in Industry, 2025.

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