In the past 16 years, productivity in the top fields of the economy closer to the tech frontier rose on the one hand and on the other one the weight of top economic fields increased.
Productivity rose in all the five branches in 2022 from 2008, with the biggest increase registered in raw materials supply branches and in knowledge intensive services.
Non-knowledge intensive services rank second in terms of productivity.
The analysis shows that in the past 15 years the structure of the economy along the five branches changed, with an increase in the weight of knowledge-intensive services from 21% in 2008 to 33% in 2023.
In 2023, 43% of the working population (3.3 million) was represented by women.
The biggest weight of women in the working population is registered in the most productive fields, namely 58% in knowledge-intensive services and 48% in non-knowledge intensive services.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)