Geography of Pakistan · Population and employment. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
Jobs are put into three sectors. Primary jobs take raw materials from land or sea. Secondary jobs make goods in factories or workshops. Tertiary jobs provide services. Since 1947 the share of Pakistan’s workers in farming has fallen, because machines replace farm labour, while industry and services have grown.
Not everyone has enough work. An unemployed person has no job and is looking for one. An underemployed person has work, but too little of it or work below their skills.
Pakistan has plenty of manual labour but too few skilled workers. Better literacy and training, especially for women in rural areas, raise output and incomes.
In a table of percentages, a falling share for farming does not prove that fewer people farm. If the total workforce has grown, the number of farm workers may even have risen.
Answer: He is underemployed, and he works in the tertiary sector.
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