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Congo: Employment in industry

19.48percent · 2025-17.1% 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 Congo from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202519.48
202419.524
202319.631
202219.903
202119.956
202020.068
201920.279
201820.635
201721.192
201622.063
201523.499
201424
201323.891
201224.377
201123.854
201024.061
200923.402
200823.037
200722.627
200623.787
200523.412
200423.691
200323.738
200224.016
200124.034
200024.11
199923.439
199823.714
199723.912
199624.303
199524.076
199424.163
199324.967
199225.431
199125.65

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 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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