45 Examples of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Economic Activity

The economic activity is all that destined to generate or exchange products, be these goods or services.

Usually, a subdivision according to the type of activity, strictly speaking that from the birth of the product to its consumption There are different parts of a huge process, in which all the activities involved are not equal.

In this sense, there are three different stages: primary, secondary and tertiary. For example: agriculture, electricity supply, casinos.

Primary activities

The primary economic activities include the tasks that are based on extracting goods and resources coming from nature. During the first stage of the human being on earth, this activity was the only one that he could carry out and meant the full potential of the work there was: it was necessary to collect enough food to be able to feed all the people who lived on the planet.

Although many goods extracted from nature They continue to be able to be consumed in the same way that they are extracted, with the passing of time a part of them has been transformed into factors of production of other goods. This is why the amount of work dedicated to these activities was reduced, but it still remains close to 50%:

economies less developed have a greater number of people dedicated to this.

Examples of primary economic activities

1. farming. Production of vegetable crops.
   • Cereals
   • Oilseeds
   • Sugar cane
   • Vine
2. Cattle raising. Animal husbandry.
   • Vaccine
   • Goat
   • Swine
   • Sheep
3. Fishing. Exploitation of river species and seas.
4. Forestry. Exploitation activities woods Y jungles.
   • Paper pulp
   • Cork
   • Cinnamon
5. Mining. Exploitation of resources minerals ground.
   • Iron
   • Copper
   • Lead
   • Gold
   • Silver

Secondary activities

The secondary economic activities they concentrate all of the sectors in the economy that are dedicated to creating finished products.

The industrial activity, either this light industry (for the manufacture of consumer goods) or heavy industry (for the development of capital goods), is always included in this group. So does the artisan sector, which ultimately takes a piece and transforms it into another, adding value to it.

A large part of secondary activity is related to the technology development that optimize work, which gives the economy a potential independent of the physical and geographical conditions, associated with the primary activity.

From the industrial revolution it was that the primary activity was giving way to the secondary one, with special emphasis on the more developed countries.

Examples of secondary economic activities

1. Plastic bags
2. Footwear
3. Cement
4. Cigarettes
5. Home appliances
6. Car factories
7. Clothing factories
8. Fertilizers
9. Bottled soft drinks
10. Kitchen tools
11. Sheets
12. Musical instruments
13. Apple juice
14. Toys
15. Low consumption lamps
16. Packaged legumes
17. Cakes
18. Water purification plants
19. Provision of electricity
20. Maximum security doors

Tertiary activities

Finally, the economic activity tertiary It is the one that is dedicated to the provision of services that satisfy the needs of people.

The consumers, in either of the other two cases, they do not have an immediate relationship with the producers: on the contrary, they need and demand a intermediation, and they prefer quality. Like that, there are many other services that are not immediately derived from the obtaining and transformation of products, but rather are born from the collision between a need and someone capable of supplying it.

Both in the Developing countries As in developed countries, tertiary economic activity is a microclimate in large cities where everything is organized around the services, but in the case of the most advanced countries this type of activity spreads throughout the country, thus becoming a very competitive.

The evolution of communications as a result of the process of globalization it is fully functional to the tertiary sector of the economy, and services do not stop spreading throughout the world.

Examples of tertiary economic activities

1. Transportation
2. Banking
3. Casinos
4. Communications by phone
5. Education
6. Franchises
7. government
8. Hospitality
9. Real estate
10. Financial intermediation
11. Social media management
12. Media
13. Barber Shop
14. Repair of electrical appliances.
15. Health
16. Safety
17. Funeral services
18. Legal services
19. tourism
20. Retail sales