Economic activities are all the processes that take place to obtain products, goods and / or services intended to meet needs and desires in a particular society.
For the economy and finance, an activity is any process that occurs in an organized manner with the ultimate goal of generating products, or also goods and services, which in a given context will contribute to the economic progress of a group, society or nation .
Economic activities have the purpose of covering human needs from work on the resources available on the planet and, in that sense, they contemplate not only economic and business criteria, but also social and environmental criteria in decision-making.
Any activity that boasts of such can and should be segmented into production phases (understood as that which operates on the raw material for the development of a certain product or good), distribution (in terms of placing the products in different geographical points of society within the reach of the consumer) and consumption (that is, the appropriation of the good by an individual or entity).
Typical economic activities in the different countries of the world are agriculture and livestock, but also industry, commerce, communications, scientific research and almost any activity that involves the production of a good in exchange for a monetary or other refund. kind.
Within these activities, the primary sector is considered to be the one that comprises the activities that are concerned with obtaining food and raw materials from the natural environment; secondary sector to which it works on raw materials in industrial areas; and tertiary to which groups the services available to a company. In the most advanced economies, the tertiary sector tends to gain a place over the primary sector, which is predominant in developing economies.