Post-demographic dividend: Services, value added (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Post-demographic dividend's services, value added (% of GDP) fell 0.71 percentage points on 2020 (from 71.56% to 70.85%).

Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2020), the average change was +0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.58 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2.05 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.71 percentage points in 2021. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.13 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 60% 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.

How it compares

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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 25 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)
• Israel — 72.85% (2024)
• Jordan — 56.77% (2025)
• Kuwait — 59.63% (2025)
• Lebanon — 35.73% (2024)

More economic policy & debt data for Post-demographic dividend

• Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$1.47 trillion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$67.38 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$53.76 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$59,490 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$47,462 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$67.55 trillion (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 1.65% (2025)
• GDP per capita (annual % growth) — 1.27% (2025)
• GNI, Atlas method (current US$) — US$66.49 trillion (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Post-demographic dividend's services, value added (% of GDP)?

70.85% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1997?

It is up 4.95 percentage points from 65.9% in 1997. The highest value was 71.56% in 2020 and the lowest 65.9% in 1997.

Is the latest change in services, value added (% of GDP) unusual for Post-demographic dividend?

In 2021, Post-demographic dividend's services, value added (% of GDP) fell 0.71 percentage points on 2020 (from 71.56% to 70.85%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1998 to 2020), the average change was +0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.58 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Where does this data come from?

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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