Israel: Services, value added (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Israel's services, value added (% of GDP) rose 0.39 percentage points on 2023 (from 72.45% to 72.85%).

Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2023), the average change was +0.34 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.95 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.91 percentage points in 2005. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.41 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 84% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 73.65% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.82%, against 1.38% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2024, Israel had the 10th highest value of the 31 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Israel in the 2024 ranking

• Barbados — 7th of 31: 75.84%
• Cuba — 8th of 31: 73.39%
• Palau — 9th of 31: 73.08%
• Turks and Caicos Islands — 11th of 31: 72.64%
• Curaçao — 12th of 31: 72.3%
• Timor-Leste — 13th of 31: 71.63%

What this measures

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.

Limitations: In the services industry the many self-employed workers and one-person businesses are sometimes difficult to locate, and they have little incentive to respond to surveys, let alone to report their full earnings. Compounding these problems are the many forms of economic activity that go unrecorded, including the work that women and children do for little or no pay.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 30 values

Services, value added (% of GDP) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 45.16% (2024)
• Algeria — 45.68% (2025)
• Bahrain — 54.32% (2025)
• Djibouti — 75.66% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 47.31% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 47.09% (2025)
• Iraq — 52.27% (2025)
• Jordan — 56.77% (2025)
• Kuwait — 59.63% (2025)
• Lebanon — 35.73% (2024)
• Libya — 26.91% (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Israel

• Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$4.91 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$229.49 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$229.49 billion (2025)
• Gross fixed capital formation (current US$) — US$145.39 billion (2025)
• Gross fixed capital formation (current LCU) — 501.88 billion (2025)
• Gross fixed capital formation (constant 2015 US$) — US$102.07 billion (2025)
• Gross fixed capital formation (constant LCU) — 412.25 billion (2025)
• Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP) — 23.8% (2025)
• Changes in inventories (current US$) — US$3.31 billion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Israel's services, value added (% of GDP)?

72.85% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1995?

It is up 9.92 percentage points from 62.93% in 1995. The highest value was 72.85% in 2024 and the lowest 62.75% in 1997.

How does Israel rank?

10th highest of 31 economies with data for 2024.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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