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- Subclass of
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- Part of
- economy
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- Economic sectors
- different from
- industry
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- Template:Economic sectors
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Percentages of a country's economy made up by different sectors. Countries with higher levels of socio-economic development tend to have proportionally less of their economies operating in the primary and secondary sectors and more emphasis on the tertiary sector. The less developed countries exhibit the inverse pattern. Three sectors according to Fourastié Clark's sector model
An economic sector is a part of an economy that includes similar economic activities and industries. One classical breakdown of economic activity distinguishes three sectors:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “economic sector” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.