Yet more demographics (or "why manufacturing industry?")

[fivemack]

I've collected the CIA data on composition of labour force by employment sector (agriculture / industry / services), composition of GDP ditto, total GDP and total labour force, and by means of two multiplications and a division produced a table, per country, of GDP per person employed in each sector.

Thirteen countries: the big five nearly-developed nations (Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China), Peru because it had an incredibly small agricultural sector, Serbia because it had a very large industrial sector, Uganda as a developing nation, Thailand because we were talking about it on James Nicoll's LJ, the UK because I live there, the US and Canada because lots of people reading this live there, et la France, car c'est la France. Figures in thousands of US dollars per year at official exchange rate

Country	GDP per agriculturalist	GDP per industry worker	GDP per service worker
Brazil	5.6	33.6	16.6
Canada	82.9	124.0	73.1
China	1.4	10.6	6.8
France	53.9	86.0	110.7
India	0.7	5.5	4.3
Indonesia	1.6	11.8	4.4
Peru *	151.9 8.3	11.1 13.3	11.6 13.1
Russia	10.2	30.4	20.5
Serbia	6.9	8.9	44.7
Thailand	2	16.1	8.4
Uganda	0.3	4.9	4.1
UK	79.5	113.9	79.3
USA	184.8	78.5	95.8

* I believe the Peruvian National Statistics Office more than I do the CIA

Spreadsheet here.

I'm not sure I believe these answers, which means I suppose that I don't believe some of the input numbers. Western farmers are incredibly productive, yes; industry is almost always more productive per worker than the service sector, yes; but the Serbian service sector three times as efficient as the Brazilian?

Comments

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure where you multiply in unemployment; the CIA has 'unemployment' figures, but their figure for Peru is for Lima alone.

The CIA really does claim 0.7% agricultural, 23.8% industrial, 75.5% services, and I think they're writing nonsense. Time for primary sources, I guess (he sighs).

Peru's national statistics agency has the 2007 census on-line at
http://iinei.inei.gob.pe/iinei/RedatamCpv2007.asp; my Spanish isn't great but it'll do.

Miembros poder ejec.y leg. direct. adm. pub y emp.  	  26,941  	  0.26  	  0.26  	  	  	
Profes. cientificos e intelectuales 	1,055,223 	10.29 	10.56 			
Técnicos de nivel medio y trabajador asimilados 	655,677 	6.40 	16.95 			
Jefes y empleados de oficina 	524,744 	5.12 	22.07 			
Trabj. de serv.pers. y vend.del comerc. y mcdo. 	1,582,796 	15.44 	37.51 			
Agricult.trabajador calific.agrop.y pesqueros 	1,314,707 	12.82 	50.34 			
Obrero y oper. de minas,cant.,ind.,manuf.y otros 	998,627 	9.74 	60.08 			
Obreros construcc.,conf., papel, fab., instr. 	1,042,501 	10.17 	70.25 			
Trabaj.no calif.serv.,peon,vend.,amb., y afines 	2,660,902 	25.96 	96.20 			
Otras ocupaciones 	389,154 	3.80 	100.00 			

but I can't figure out quite how you subdivide those categories; at very least that's claiming 12.8% agricultural, which sounds much more plausible and would make the columns more like 8 / 13 / 13.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Hm, OK, their census makes more sense than the CIA version.