ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia

Serbia: ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment was 2,138 1000 No in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
2,138 1000 No
Change on year
up 2.2%
World rank
28th
of 72 countries
All-time high
2,138 1000 No
in 2024
All-time low
1,016 1000 No
in 2012
Years of data
17
2008–2024

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia, 2008–2024

05001.0k1.5k2.0k2008201620242008: 1.3k 1000 No2009: 1.2k 1000 No2010: 1.1k 1000 No2011: 1.0k 1000 No2012: 1.0k 1000 No2013: 1.0k 1000 No2014: 1.1k 1000 No2015: 1.1k 1000 No2016: 1.2k 1000 No2017: 1.2k 1000 No2018: 1.2k 1000 No2019: 1.2k 1000 No2020: 1.3k 1000 No2021: 2.0k 1000 No2022: 2.0k 1000 No2023: 2.1k 1000 No2024: 2.1k 1000 No

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 No.

Analysis

Serbia recorded 2,138 1000 No for ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in 2024. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.2% on the previous year and up 97.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in Serbia peaked at 2,138 1000 No in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,016 1000 No, in 2012.

That places Serbia 28th out of 72 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia, year by year

Annual values for ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, total, rural areas — Value in Serbia, 2008 to 2024.
Year 1000 No Change
2008 1,310 1000 No
2009 1,214 1000 No -7.3%
2010 1,087 1000 No -10.5%
2011 1,028 1000 No -5.4%
2012 1,016 1000 No -1.2%
2013 1,020 1000 No +0.4%
2014 1,083 1000 No +6.2%
2015 1,083 1000 No +0.0%
2016 1,160 1000 No +7.1%
2017 1,199 1000 No +3.3%
2018 1,196 1000 No -0.3%
2019 1,225 1000 No +2.4%
2020 1,258 1000 No +2.7%
2021 1,975 1000 No +57.0%
2022 2,029 1000 No +2.8%
2023 2,093 1000 No +3.1%
2024 2,138 1000 No +2.2%

Serbia compared with similar countries

  • Serbia's 2,138 1000 No is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,087 1000 No, 2.0× the median. (19 countries reporting)
  • Serbia's 2,138 1000 No is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 922.19 1000 No, 2.3× the median. (33 countries reporting)

Biggest year-on-year movements

Years where ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.

YearChange FromTo
2021 +57.0% 1,258 1000 No 1,975 1000 No

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 1,262 1000 No 1,214 1000 No 1,310 1000 No 2
2010s 1,110 1000 No 1,016 1000 No 1,225 1000 No 10
2020s 1,899 1000 No 1,258 1000 No 2,138 1000 No 5

Countries ranked near Serbia

  1. 25 Ecuador 2,908 1000 No compare
  2. 26 Romania 2,809 1000 No compare
  3. 27 Spain 2,663 1000 No compare
  4. 29 Czechia 1,949 1000 No compare
  5. 30 Senegal 1,806 1000 No compare
  6. 31 Austria 1,704 1000 No compare

See the full ranking of 78 places →

More economy & growth data for Serbia

All data for Serbia →

Frequently asked questions

What is ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in Serbia?
Ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment in Serbia was 2,138 1000 No in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment recorded in Serbia?
The highest recorded value was 2,138 1000 No in 2024.
What is the lowest ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment recorded in Serbia?
The lowest recorded value was 1,016 1000 No in 2012.
How does Serbia rank for ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment?
Serbia ranks 28th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
Is ilostat - labour force survey — employment by status of employment rising or falling in Serbia?
Over the last ten years it is up 97.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Serbia data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, total, rural areas — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 17 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/ilostat-labour-force-survey-employment-by-status-of-employment-total-rural-areas-value/serbia/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://economy.statizoid.com/stat/ilostat-labour-force-survey-employment-by-status-of-employment-total-rural-areas-value/serbia/">ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment in Serbia</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Employment by status of employment, total, rural areas — Value
Unit
1000 No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
78 places, 1,462 data points, 1987–2025
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics. The indicators published in FAOSTAT are derived from the labour force statistics (LFS) and rural and urban labour markets (RURURB) databases of the ILOSTAT database.