Chapter 3: Employment
Just over half of the population aged 14 or over (54.2%) in Cameroon is the labour force. The share of the workforce is higher among men (61.4%) than among women (47.3%). This is higher in the survey regions of the South (64.9%), the East (63.8%), Douala (59.2%), the Centre without Yaoundé (58.2%) and Yaoundé (55.6%). The share of the labour force is also higher among people aged 35-64 than among other age groups. The employment rate is 50.8%. The highest levels are recorded in the survey regions of South (63.5%), East (62.8%) and Centre without Yaoundé (56.5%). It is significantly higher among men (58.3%) than women (43.7%), in rural areas (54.1%) than in urban areas (48.6%). One in five employed people is a migrant. There are relatively more migrants among employed people in the Littoral without Douala (43.0%) and the Centre without Yaoundé (36.1%). In Yaoundé and Douala, about three out of ten employed people are migrants. The average age of employed persons is 38.3 years. They are on average older in rural areas, in the West, in the Littoral without Douala and in the Centre without Yaoundé. The labour market is characterised by a preponderance of the informal sector. The share of jobs in the informal sector is 86.6%. Thus, jobs are divided between the informal non-agricultural sector (52.0%), the informal agricultural sector (34.7%), the public sector (8.2%) and the formal private sector (5.1%). The average durations in employment and in the company are almost the same, at 10.6 years and 10.9 years respectively, thus reflecting very low employment movements in companies. The rate of salaried employment at the national level is 38.6%. This rate is higher in urban areas (48.3%), particularly in the cities of Douala (48.5%) and Yaoundé (64.6%). The multi-employment rate, which is the ratio of the number of people in one or more secondary jobs to the population in employment, is 13.1%. This rate is lower in urban areas (8.5%), particularly in the cities of Douala (4.7%) and Yaoundé (4.1%). The employment rate of young people aged 15-34 is 39.3%. It is 47.2% among young men compared to 31.3% among women. It is higher in rural areas than in urban areas (43.0% compared to 37.1%). The East has the highest youth employment rate (56.5%), followed by the South (52.6%). The evaluation of the level of social security reveals that 9 out of 100 employed people have been victims of an accident at work in their main job. Six out of 100 employed people have been victims of an occupational disease and 11 out of 100 people say they are covered by insurance as part of their main job. Work accidents are more recorded in urban areas (9.4%), in the Littoral without Douala (15.9%), the South (15.4%), the Centre without Yaoundé (13.7%), the informal non-agricultural sector (9.4%) and the formal private sector (9.3%).
