The private sector employs 6.95 million workers, 63% of the total employed population in Algeria, the National Office of Statistics (ONS) told APS.
The public sector, as for it, employs nearly 4.09 million, i.e. 37% of the total employed population which is estimated at 11.048 million, revealed the Office’s survey on the labour market situation, conducted last April.
The 11.048 million workers are composed of 9.073 million men (82.1%) and 1.975 million women (17.9%).
The National Office of Statistics said that nearly 7 workers out of ten are employees (69.6%) while this category is larger among women with 75.3%.
Significant share of working women (57.4%) is employed in the public sector against 42.6% in the private sector.
Regarding the distribution of the occupied population by sector of activity, the survey revealed the biggest employers are the construction sector with 1.9 million (17.2% of the total employed population), followed by of public administration (excluding health sector) with 1.73 million (15.7%), trade with 1.71 million (15.5%), health and social work with 1.56 million (14.1%), manufacturing industries with 1.33 million (12%) and agriculture with 1.14 million (10.4%), while workers in other services are 819,000 (7.4%).
The other occupations consist mainly of operators and assembly workers with 856,000 workers (7.7% of the overall employed population), farmers with 798,000 (7.2%), administrative employees with 671,000 employees (6.1%), intermediate professions with 540,000 (4.9%) and executives and managers with 387,000 (3.5%).
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