Employment in primary, secondary and tertiary sectors; share of total, 2024.
Portugal’s employment is divided among primary, secondary and tertiary sectors for 2024. Shares use the published total of 5.112 million employed people, with a 0.1-thousand difference caused by source rounding. The tertiary sector was largest at 72.4% of employment. The secondary sector accounted for 24.7%, while the primary sector represented 2.9%.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tertiary sector | 72.4% | 2024 |
| 2 | Secondary sector | 24.7% | 2024 |
| 3 | Primary sector | 2.9% | 2024 |
Source 1: Employment: total and by large sectors of economic activity
Publisher: PORDATA
Dataset/table: PORDATA Labour Statistics
Units: thousand persons
Date checked: 2026-07-17
Evidence: Supports Portugal’s 2024 employment total and the primary, secondary and tertiary sector components.
Values are Labour Force Survey estimates in thousands of people. Sector components and the total differ by 0.1 thousand because of source rounding.
Each broad-sector estimate is divided by the published total employment estimate. The published total is retained as denominator rather than replacing it with the rounded component sum.
All three sectors and the total use the same Statistics Portugal survey, 2024 period and thousand-person unit.
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