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Cameroon: Self-employed, male

62.46percent · 2025-9.3% 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
202562.464
202462.689
202362.858
202263.014
202163.152
202064.535
201964.668
201865.665
201766.697
201667.751
201568.851
201470.001
201370.578
201271.159
201171.73
201072.257
200972.662
200873.088
200773.582
200673.986
200574.385
200474.756
200375.177
200275.542
200175.892
200076.21
199976.543
199876.837
199777.079
199677.232
199577.289
199477.186
199376.985
199276.584
199176.296

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

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