Services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income): Services, value added was 56.5% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income), 1960–2025
Source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs). Measured in % of GDP.
Analysis
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) recorded 56.5% for services, value added in 2025.
That represents a change of up 1.5% on the previous year and up 10.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) peaked at 60.7% in 1960 and was at its lowest, 32.0%, in 1981.
That places East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 28th out of 47 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 66 years of available data.
Services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income), year by year
| Year | % of GDP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 60.7% | — |
| 1961 | 59.8% | -1.6% |
| 1962 | 54.0% | -9.7% |
| 1963 | 49.6% | -8.3% |
| 1964 | 49.4% | -0.2% |
| 1965 | 50.7% | +2.6% |
| 1966 | 46.7% | -7.9% |
| 1967 | 48.5% | +3.9% |
| 1968 | 48.9% | +0.8% |
| 1969 | 48.5% | -0.9% |
| 1970 | 44.6% | -8.0% |
| 1971 | 44.0% | -1.4% |
| 1972 | 44.4% | +0.7% |
| 1973 | 42.1% | -5.2% |
| 1974 | 39.7% | -5.7% |
| 1975 | 37.8% | -4.7% |
| 1976 | 36.0% | -4.9% |
| 1977 | 37.7% | +4.8% |
| 1978 | 35.5% | -5.9% |
| 1979 | 34.0% | -4.2% |
| 1980 | 32.4% | -4.6% |
| 1981 | 32.0% | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 32.2% | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 33.5% | +4.3% |
| 1984 | 35.1% | +4.6% |
| 1985 | 39.8% | +13.5% |
| 1986 | 39.0% | -2.0% |
| 1987 | 37.9% | -2.8% |
| 1988 | 37.9% | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 39.2% | +3.3% |
| 1990 | 38.6% | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 39.9% | +3.2% |
| 1992 | 41.0% | +2.8% |
| 1993 | 40.8% | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 40.3% | -1.4% |
| 1995 | 39.4% | -2.1% |
| 1996 | 39.1% | -0.8% |
| 1997 | 39.5% | +1.2% |
| 1998 | 40.1% | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 41.3% | +3.0% |
| 2000 | 41.6% | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 43.2% | +4.0% |
| 2002 | 44.1% | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 43.8% | -0.7% |
| 2004 | 43.1% | -1.6% |
| 2005 | 43.1% | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 43.3% | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 44.1% | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 43.7% | -0.7% |
| 2009 | 45.2% | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 45.1% | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 45.1% | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 46.2% | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 47.5% | +3.0% |
| 2014 | 48.8% | +2.7% |
| 2015 | 51.2% | +4.8% |
| 2016 | 52.5% | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 52.7% | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 53.3% | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 54.3% | +2.0% |
| 2020 | 54.6% | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 53.9% | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 53.8% | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 55.2% | +2.5% |
| 2024 | 55.7% | +0.9% |
| 2025 | 56.5% | +1.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 51.7% | 46.7% | 60.7% | 10 |
| 1970s | 39.6% | 34.0% | 44.6% | 10 |
| 1980s | 35.9% | 32.0% | 39.8% | 10 |
| 1990s | 40.0% | 38.6% | 41.3% | 10 |
| 2000s | 43.5% | 41.6% | 45.2% | 10 |
| 2010s | 49.7% | 45.1% | 54.3% | 10 |
| 2020s | 54.9% | 53.8% | 56.5% | 6 |
Countries ranked near East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
- 25 Turks and Caicos Islands 72.6% compare
- 26 Curaçao 72.3% compare
- 27 Samoa 72.1% compare
- 28 Switzerland 71.7% compare
- 29 Timor-Leste 71.6% compare
- 30 Singapore 71.6% compare
- 31 Japan 71.4% compare
More economy & growth data for East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), gaps 176.21 billion BoP, current US$ (2025)
- GDP (current US$), annual growth rate 4.49 % change on previous year (2025)
- Services, value added (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.5647 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Services, value added (current US$), per capita 6,123 current US$ per person (2025)
- Services, value added (constant 2015 US$), annual growth rate 5.42 % change on previous year (2025)
- Services, value added (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.5372 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Services, value added (constant 2015 US$), per capita 5,825 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$), annual growth rate 4.94 % change on previous year (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$), per capita 10,615 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.9789 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- Services, value added in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) was 56.5% in 2025, according to Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs).
- What is the highest services, value added recorded in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- The highest recorded value was 60.7% in 1960.
- What is the lowest services, value added recorded in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- The lowest recorded value was 32.0% in 1981.
- How does East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) rank for services, value added?
- East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) ranks 28th out of 47 groups with data for 2025.
- Is services, value added rising or falling in East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) data come from?
- The figures come from Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), published as part of Services, value added (% of GDP). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.