Countries by Services, value added (% of GDP)

Isle of Man ranks 1st globally with services comprising 95.15% of GDP, the highest share among 203 countries measured. At the opposite end, Guyana ranks 203rd at just 14.46%. The 80-percentage-point gap reflects how differently economies are structured across agriculture, industry, and services.

Economy category

Ranking 2024

Values shown in %.

Countries by Services, value added (% of GDP)
Rank	Country	%
1	Isle of Man	95.15
2	Hong Kong	91.75
3	Bermuda	91.46
4	Macao	90.86
5	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	89.34
6	Monaco	87.20
7	Cayman Islands	85.98
8	Malta	81.77
9	Luxembourg	81.18
10	Sao Tome and Principe	80.34
11	Aruba	79.00
12	United States	77.60
13	Andorra	77.59
14	Bahamas	77.19
15	Cyprus	76.48
16	Djibouti	76.08
17	French Polynesia	75.90
18	Saint Lucia	75.90
19	Barbados	75.53
20	Palau	74.77
21	Cuba	73.39
22	Singapore	73.03
23	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.64
24	Israel	72.54
25	United Kingdom	72.45
26	Curaçao	72.30
27	Maldives	72.10
28	Switzerland	72.03
29	Timor-Leste	71.63
30	Belgium	70.99
31	France	70.91
32	Netherlands	70.49
33	Japan	69.77
34	Samoa	69.36
35	Panama	69.34
36	Antigua and Barbuda	69.06
37	Spain	68.90
38	Costa Rica	68.78
39	Cabo Verde	68.72
40	Greece	68.01
41	Micronesia	67.91
42	New Zealand	67.41
43	Kiribati	67.11
44	Marshall Islands	66.99
45	Sweden	66.43
46	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	66.40
47	Canada	66.39
48	Portugal	66.28
49	Australia	66.14
50	Saint Kitts and Nevis	66.13
51	Seychelles	65.77
52	Grenada	65.71
53	Estonia	65.70
54	Uruguay	65.26
55	New Caledonia	65.19
56	Italy	65.05
57	Iceland	64.89
58	Latvia	64.60
59	Mauritius	64.37
60	Germany	64.05
61	Austria	63.97
62	Montenegro	63.77
63	Bulgaria	63.76
64	Lithuania	63.59
65	Denmark	63.55
66	Botswana	63.49
67	Philippines	63.22
68	South Africa	62.99
69	Tunisia	62.61
70	Romania	62.55
71	Belize	62.44
72	Moldova	62.27
73	Finland	62.21
74	Armenia	61.99
75	Georgia	61.98
76	Guatemala	61.84
77	El Salvador	61.04
78	Greenland	60.99
79	Croatia	60.84
80	Ukraine	60.62
81	Ireland	60.56
82	Jordan	60.39
83	Czechia	60.17
84	Slovakia	59.96
85	Jamaica	59.96
86	Dominican Republic	59.81
87	Hungary	59.52
88	Trinidad and Tobago	59.18
89	Brazil	59.17
90	Thailand	59.15
91	Poland	59.15
92	Vanuatu	59.05
93	Serbia	58.78
94	Palestine	58.53
95	Honduras	58.41
96	Colombia	58.14
97	Mexico	58.10
98	Kazakhstan	57.94
99	Slovenia	57.94
100	Russia	57.53
101	Türkiye	57.52
102	South Korea	57.50
103	Sri Lanka	57.47
104	Liechtenstein	57.43
105	Zambia	57.19
106	Ecuador	57.16
107	Dominica	56.94
108	San Marino	56.90
109	Gambia	56.79
110	China	56.75
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	56.56
112	South Sudan	56.55
113	North Macedonia	56.25
114	Chile	56.08
115	Kuwait	55.85
116	Kenya	55.30
117	Nepal	55.22
118	United Arab Emirates	54.90
119	Sudan	54.67
120	Fiji	54.57
121	Namibia	54.46
122	Faroe Islands	53.83
123	Nigeria	53.73
124	Malaysia	53.72
125	Argentina	53.65
126	Bolivia	53.36
127	Bahrain	53.19
128	Bhutan	52.79
129	Morocco	52.73
130	Kyrgyzstan	52.14
131	Côte d'Ivoire	51.86
132	Puerto Rico	51.81
133	Norway	51.81
134	Bangladesh	51.42
135	Eswatini	51.36
136	Peru	51.29
137	Equatorial Guinea	51.10
138	Suriname	50.85
139	Pakistan	50.73
140	Cameroon	50.72
141	Zimbabwe	50.61
142	Turkmenistan	50.35
143	Comoros	50.07
144	Tonga	49.99
145	India	49.87
146	Iran	49.79
147	Belarus	49.68
148	Togo	49.16
149	Egypt	48.93
150	Benin	48.88
151	Paraguay	48.75
152	Albania	48.69
153	Senegal	48.41
154	Haiti	48.31
155	Lesotho	48.04
156	Madagascar	47.72
157	Rwanda	47.55
158	Saudi Arabia	47.07
159	Solomon Islands	46.92
160	Nicaragua	46.83
161	Algeria	46.79
162	DR Congo	46.57
163	Afghanistan	46.37
164	Qatar	46.07
165	Oman	46.01
166	Iraq	45.77
167	Kosovo	45.68
168	Uzbekistan	45.19
169	Niger	45.03
170	Republic of Congo	45.02
171	Syria	44.94
172	Mongolia	44.34
173	Malawi	44.21
174	Burkina Faso	43.95
175	Indonesia	43.77
176	Laos	43.53
177	Burundi	43.22
178	Uganda	43.14
179	Sierra Leone	42.57
180	Mauritania	42.43
181	Lebanon	42.38
182	Vietnam	42.36
183	Azerbaijan	42.32
184	Central African Republic	42.08
185	Papua New Guinea	42.03
186	Liberia	41.93
187	Yemen	41.81
188	Myanmar	41.35
189	Mozambique	41.10
190	Angola	41.06
191	Ghana	40.94
192	Brunei	38.95
193	Guinea-Bissau	37.88
194	Ethiopia	37.47
195	Gabon	36.82
196	Guinea	36.34
197	Mali	36.31
198	Cambodia	35.59
199	Tajikistan	34.71
200	Chad	29.78
201	Tanzania	29.56
202	Libya	28.34
203	Guyana	14.46

Analysis

This metric measures services, value added as a percentage of GDP, using World Bank World Development Indicators indicator code NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS, expressed in percent, where higher values indicate a greater share of economic output from services. 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 services. The dataset covers 203 countries, with 201 of 203 (99.0%) having data from the last seven years. All 100% of datapoints are classified as official-quality. The 2024 reference year has data for 174 of 203 countries (85.7%), meaning some values are drawn from prior years. Five extreme outliers were identified using a 3-standard-deviation threshold.

The top of the ranking is dominated by offshore financial centers, tourism-dependent territories, and highly developed service economies. Isle of Man (rank 1, 95.15%) and Bermuda (rank 3, 91.46%) derive virtually all output from services, reflecting their roles as financial and insurance jurisdictions. Hong Kong SAR, China (rank 2, 91.75%) and Macao SAR, China (rank 4, 90.86%) similarly show near-total service orientation. Among sovereign nations with large populations, the United States ranks 12th at 77.60% and the United Kingdom ranks 25th at 72.45%, while Luxembourg (rank 9, 81.18%) stands out as the highest-ranked continental European economy.

The middle of the ranking includes major emerging economies clustered between roughly 55% and 65%. China ranks 110th at 56.75%, India ranks 145th at 49.87%, and Indonesia ranks 175th at 43.77%. A notable anomaly is Ireland (rank 81, 60.56%), which ranks lower than might be expected for a high-income European economy, likely reflecting the statistical weight of its large industrial and pharmaceutical sectors. Norway ranks 133rd at 51.81%, an unusually low position for a wealthy nation, consistent with the outsized share of extractive industries in its GDP. At the bottom, Chad (rank 200, 29.78%), Tanzania (rank 201, 29.56%), Libya (rank 202, 28.34%), and Guyana (rank 203, 14.46%) show the lowest services shares, with Guyana's value being a clear statistical outlier driven by the extraordinary weight of its recently expanded extractive sector in GDP.

Because this metric expresses services as a share of GDP, a country's rank can fall not because its services sector is small in absolute terms, but because another sector — such as oil extraction or manufacturing — has grown rapidly, compressing the services percentage. This makes cross-country comparisons sensitive to commodity booms and sectoral composition rather than purely to the size or sophistication of services. The 85.7% consistency rate for the 2024 data year means that approximately 14% of values are drawn from earlier years, introducing temporal inconsistency across the ranking. The ISIC Rev. 4 classification is broad, encompassing both market and non-market services, which limits distinction between private-sector activity and government provision.

Methodology

Data source: World Bank World Development Indicators, indicator code NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS. Unit: percent of GDP. Data year: 2024. The definition applied is: 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 services. Total country coverage: 203 countries. Recency: 201 of 203 countries (99.0%) have data from within the last seven years. Data quality: 100% of datapoints are classified as official. Consistency for 2024 reference year: 174 of 203 countries (85.7%) have data directly from 2024; the remainder use the most recent prior year available. Five extreme outliers were flagged at the 3-standard-deviation threshold. The value range runs from 14.46% (Guyana, rank 203) to 95.15% (Isle of Man, rank 1), a spread of 580 percentage points relative to the minimum. Average year-over-year change across the dataset is 3.2%, well within the 50% volatility threshold.

Sources

World Bank