World Bank · Labor

Cameroon: Self-employed, female

78.07percent · 2025-8.5% since 2015

Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include sub-categories of employers, own-account workers and members of producers' cooperatives and contributing family workers. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Cameroon from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202578.067
202478.393
202378.633
202278.861
202179.104
202080.336
201980.676
201881.859
201783.031
201684.175
201585.299
201486.405
201387.082
201287.721
201188.342
201088.926
200989.426
200889.92
200790.429
200690.75
200591.057
200491.345
200391.599
200291.819
200192.031
200092.214
199992.416
199892.593
199792.753
199692.884
199592.998
199493.059
199393.108
199293.126
199193.175

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). Self-employed, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-self-employed-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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