Share of informal employment in Africa 2023, by country

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Saifaddin Galal,
Jun 5, 2024

Informal employment varied significantly across African countries. In 2021, around 98.4 percent of Niger's working population was employed informally. Undeclared work accounted for over 90 percent of the total employment in 14 other African nations between 2019 and 2023. On the other hand, Seychelles had the lowest share on the African continent working informally at almost 17 percent during the same years.

Share of informal employment in Africa between 2019 and 2023, by country

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May 2024

Region

Africa

Survey time period

2019 to 2023*

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* The year varies across countries:

2023:  Botswana, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Rwanda, South Africa
2022: Benin, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
2021: Angola, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Uganda
2020:  The Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Seychelles, Tanzania
2019: Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritania, Somalia, Tunisia

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