ILO: employment by sex and economic activity (annual)
Employment by sex and broad economic activity sector, annual, for 312 countries, territories and ILO regional aggregates (historical series back to 1947 for China, Japan and the United States; 73,959 observations), from ILOSTAT national labour force surveys and microdata processing — dataflow DF_EMP_TEMP_SEX_ECO_NB. Four sectors per country x sex: total employment plus agriculture, industry and services (the three published sectors sum to the total in the published series). Method: employed persons by ISIC-based economic activity of the main job. Units: thousands of persons, kept verbatim as published (UNIT_MULT=3). Caveats: sector classifications are revised when countries adopt new ISIC revisions, so series carry breaks (OBS_STATUS=B); agriculture includes forestry and fishing; industry includes mining, manufacturing, utilities and construction; country coverage and start years vary widely (Canada: 1969 to 2025); the 2026-2027 rows are modelled regional aggregates, not country data.
- Source
- ILO ILOSTAT
- Rows
- 73,959
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 28, 2026
- Theme
- labor
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Observation year from the ILO SDMX TIME_PERIOD dimension (annual frequency, FREQ=A), stored as January 1 of that year. |
| series_id | string | ILOSTAT dimension codes from the SDMX response as REF_AREA.SEX.ECO, e.g. 'USA.SEX_T.ECO_SECTOR_SER' (United States of America, Total, Services). REF_AREA codes are ISO alpha-3 country codes; SEX is the ILO codelist CL_SEX; ECO is the broad economic activity sector from the ILO codelist CL_ECO. |
| series_label | string | Country name from the ILO codelist CL_AREA, sex label from CL_SEX and sector label from CL_ECO, joined as 'Country — Sex — Sector', e.g. 'United States of America — Total — Services'. |
| value | float | OBS_VALUE from the ILO SDMX response for DF_EMP_TEMP_SEX_ECO_NB, economic activity sector (total; agriculture; industry; services). Unit of measure reported by the ILO as PS (thousands of persons) — thousands of employed persons. (unit: thousands of persons) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.01 |
| 1997-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.049 |
| 2000-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.037 |
| 2007-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.096 |
| 2010-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.074 |
| 2011-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_AGR | Aruba — Female — Agriculture | 0.09 |
| 1994-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_IND | Aruba — Female — Industry | 0.71 |
| 1997-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_IND | Aruba — Female — Industry | 0.832 |
| 2000-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_IND | Aruba — Female — Industry | 0.869 |
| 2007-01-01 | ABW.SEX_F.ECO_SECTOR_IND | Aruba — Female — Industry | 1.507 |
- Current
20260928T115902Z-07143ac49e35 · sha256 07143ac49e35…
73,959 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_employment_by_sector" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_employment_by_sector").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ilostat/ilo_employment_by_sector
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ILO ILOSTAT. (2026). ILO: employment by sex and economic activity (annual) [Data set, snapshot 20260928T115902Z-07143ac49e35, sha256 07143ac49e35]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-28, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ilostat/ilo_employment_by_sector?snapshot=20260928T115902Z-07143ac49e35
@misc{dz_ilostat_ilo_employment_by_sector_07143ac4,
title = {{ILO: employment by sex and economic activity (annual)}},
author = {{ILO ILOSTAT}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ilostat/ilo_employment_by_sector?snapshot=20260928T115902Z-07143ac49e35}},
note = {Snapshot 20260928T115902Z-07143ac49e35, sha256 07143ac49e354367aa8f4547b59bba1d1c9e437c81f65dc7d402c4ffa41d9756; accessed 2026-09-28}
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