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Cameroon: Own-account workers, female

79.63percent · 2016+2.9% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Cameroon from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201679.634
201579.135
201478.63
201379.19
201279.393
201179.711
201079.554
200979.562
200879.568
200779.13
200677.378
200577.111
200477.16
200362.988
200262.617
200162.126
200060.107
199964.914
199867.383
199765.563
199670.704
199569.832
199469.088
199364.695
199275.438
199170.723

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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