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Cameroon: Employment in industry

14.61percent · 2025+2.5% since 2015

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The industry sector consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, and public utilities (electricity, gas, and water), in accordance with divisions 2-5 (ISIC 2) or categories C-F (ISIC 3) or categories B-F (ISIC 4). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Cameroon from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202514.615
202414.587
202314.571
202214.599
202114.53
202014.527
201914.571
201814.534
201714.431
201614.37
201514.26
201414.078
201313.606
201213.051
201112.541
201012.133
200911.796
200811.495
200711.169
200611.14
200511.105
200411.588
200311.958
200212.44
200112.991
200013.171
199913.302
199813.369
199713.39
199613.404
199513.396
199413.465
199313.588
199214.146
199114.508

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Employment in industry. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-industry (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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