Statistics - Africa
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Labour **
- Percentage of women in the active population (1970 & 1990)
- North Africa: 8 % (1970) ; 21 % (1990)
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 39 % (1970) ; 38 % (1990)
Sources: International Labor Organization (United Nations)
- Percentage of female and male active population by sector
of activity (1994)
- North Africa:
Agriculture : Women: 25 % ; Men: 27 %
Industry: Women: 29 % ; Men: 33 %
Services: Women: 46 % ; Men: 40 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa:
Agriculture : Women: 75 % ; Men: 61 %
Industry: Women: 5 % ; Men: 15 %
Services: Women: 20 % ; Men: 23 %
Sources: International Labor Organization (United Nations)
- Rate of boys and girls' participation in active population,
10-14 years old (1990)
- North Africa: 4 % (girls) ; 7 % (boys)
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 21 % (girls) ; 33 % (boys)
Sources: International Labor Organization (United Nations)
- Women's share in the main professional groups (1990)
- North Africa:
Liberal and technical professions: 29 %
Management and administrative personnel: 9 %
Office clerks and related functions: 22 %
Sales people: 10 %
Production & tranportation, unskilled workers, operators: 10 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa:
Liberal and technical professions: 36 %
Management and administrative personnel: 15 %
Office clerks and related functions: 37 %
Sales people: 52 %
Production & tranportation, unskilled workers, operators: 20 %
Sources: Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (United Nations)
- Percentage of women (15 years old and more) in the total active population (1994)
- ALGERIA: 10 %
- ANGOLA: 38 %
- BENIN: 47 %
- BOTSWANA: 35 %
- BURKINA FASO: 45 %
- BURUNDI: 47 %
- CAMEROON: 32 %
- CAPE-VERDE: 32 %
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 45 %
- CHAD: 21 %
- COMOROS: 38 %
- CONGO: 40 %
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE: 34 %
- DJIBOUTI: 40 %
- EGYPT: 23 %
- EQUATORIAL GUINEA: 40 %
- ERITREA: 38 %
- ETHIOPIA: 36 %
- GABON: 37 %
- GAMBIA: 39 %
- GHANA: 39 %
- GUINEA: 38 %
- GUINEA-BISSAU: 39 %
- KENYA: 39 %
- LESOTHO: 43 %
- LIBERIA: 29 %
- LIBYA: 10 %
- MADAGASCAR: 38 %
- MALAWI: 40 %
- MALI: 15 %
- MAURICE: 26 %
- MAURITANIA: 23 %
- MOROCCO: 21 %
- MOZAMBIQUE: 47 %
- NAMIBIA: 24 %
- NIGER: 47 %
- NIGERIA: 35 %
- REUNION: 34 %
- RWANDA: 46 %
- SAO TOME & PRINCIPE: ..
- SENEGAL: 38 %
- SEYCHELLES: 42 %
- SIERRA LEONE: 32 %
- SOMALIA: 38 %
- SOUTH AFRICA: 36 %
- SUDAN: 23 %
- SWAZILAND: 41 %
- TANZANIA: 47 %
- TOGO: 35 %
- TUNISIA: 24 %
- UGANDA: 40 %
- WESTERN SAHARA: ..
- ZAÏRE: 35 %
- ZAMBIA: 30 %
- ZIMBABWE: 33 %
Sources: International Labor Organization (United Nations)
- Distribution of the active population (1994)
- ALGERIE:
Agrigulture: Women: 10 % ; Men: 16 %
Industry: Women: 21 % ; Men: 34 %
Services: Women: 69 % ; Men: 51 %
- ANGOLA:
Agrigulture: Women: 87 % ; Men: 58 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 17 %
Services: Women: 11 % ; Men: 25 %
- BENIN:
Agrigulture: Women: 64 % ; Men: 54 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 12 %
Services: Women: 31 % ; Men: 34 %
- BOTSWANA:
Agrigulture: Women: 78 % ; Men: 41 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 31 %
Services: Women: 19 % ; Men: 27 %
- BURKINA FASO:
Agrigulture: Women: 85 % ; Men: 85 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 6 %
Services: Women: 11 % ; Men: 9 %
- BURUNDI:
Agrigulture: Women: 98 % ; Men: 87 %
Industry: Women: 1 % ; Men: 4 %
Services: Women: 1 % ; Men: 9 %
- CAMEROON:
Agrigulture: Women: 64 % ; Men: 51 %
Industrie: Women: 4 % ; Men: 16 %
Services: Women: 32 % ; Men: 33 %
- CAPE-VERDE:
Agrigulture: Women: 14 % ; Men: 50 %
Industry: Women: 31 % ; Men: 30 %
Services: Women: 54 % ; Men: 21 %
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC:
Agrigulture: Women: 63 % ; Men: 60 %
Industry: Women: 5 % ; Men: 12 %
Services: Women: 31 % ; Men: 28 %
- CHAD:
Agrigulture: Women: 80 % ; Men: 75 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 7 %
Services: Women: 19 % ; Men: 18 %
- COMOROS:
Agrigulture: Women: 84 % ; Men: 76 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 10 %
Services: Women: 13 % ; Men: 15 %
- CONGO:
Agrigulture: Women: 83 % ; Men: 45 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 19 %
Services: Women: 15 % ; Men: 36 %
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE:
Agrigulture: Women: 62 % ; Men: 50 %
Industry: Women: 8 % ; Men: 13 %
Services: Women: 30 % ; Men: 38 %
- DJIBOUTI:
Agrigulture: Women: 80 % ; Men: 71 %
Industry: Women: 8 % ; Men: 11 %
Services: Women: 12 % ; Men: 18 %
- EGYPT:
Agrigulture: Women: 8 % ; Men: 42 %
Industry: Women: 20 % ; Men: 25 %
Services: Women: 71 % ; Men: 33 %
- EQUATORIAL GUINEA:
Agrigulture: Women: 82 % ; Men: 38 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 22 %
Services: Women: 15 % ; Men: 39 %
- ERITREA:
Agrigulture: Women: 80 % ; Men: 71 %
Industry: Women: 8 % ; Men: 11 %
Services: Women: 12 % ; Men: 18 %
- ETHIOPIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 80 % ; Men: 71 %
Industry: Women: 8 % ; Men: 11 %
Services: Women: 12 % ; Men: 18 %
- GABON:
Agrigulture: Women: 84 % ; Men: 63 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 18 %
Services: Women: 13 % ; Men: 19 %
- GAMBIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 91 % ; Men: 74 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 12 %
Services: Women: 6 % ; Men: 14 %
- GHANA:
Agrigulture: Women: 50 %; Men: 55 %
Industry: Women: 17 % ; Men: 20 %
Services: Women: 33 % ; Men: 24 %
- GUINEA:
Agrigulture: Women: 84 % ; Men: 70 %
Industry: Women: 6 % ; Men: 14 %
Services: Women: 9 % ; Men: 16 %
- GUINEA-BISSAU:
Agrigulture: Women: 91 ; Men: 72
Industry: Women: 2 ; Men: 6
Services: Women: 6 ; Men: 7
- KENYA:
Agrigulture: Women: 82 % ; Men: 73 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 11 %
Services: Women: 14 % ; Men: 15 %
- LESOTHO:
Agrigulture: Women: 86 % ; Men: 79 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 7 %
Services: Women: 11 % ; Men: 13 %
- LIBERIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 82 % ; Men: 65 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 13 %
Services: Women: 16 % ; Men: 22 %
- LIBYA:
Agrigulture: Women: 32 % ; : 16 %
Industry: Women: 15 % ; Men: 30 %
Services: Women: 54 % ; Men: 53 %
- MADAGASCAR:
Agrigulture: Women: 92 % ; Men: 68 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 11 %
Services: Women: 6 % ; Men: 21 %
- MALAWI:
Agrigulture: Women: 92 % ; Men: 63 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 17 %
Services: Women: 5 % ; Men: 19 %
- MALI:
Agrigulture: Women: 75 % ; Men: 83 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 2 %
Services: Women: 21 % ; Men: 15 %
- MAURICE:
Agrigulture: Women: 24 % ; Men: 21 %
Industry: Women: 16 % ; Men: 26 %
Services: Women: 60 % ; Men: 53 %
- MAURITANIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 82 % ; Men: 46 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 16 %
Services: Women: 14 % ; Men: 38 %
- MOROCCO:
Agrigulture: Agrigulture: Women: 27 % ; Men: 35 %
Industry: Agrigulture: Women: 27 % ; Men: 35 %
Services: Women: 28 % ; Men: 34 %
- MOZAMBIQUE:
Agrigulture: Women: 97 % ; Men: 68 %
Industry: Women: 1 % ; Men: 16 %
Services: Women: 2 % ; Men: 15 %
- NAMIBIE:
Agrigulture: Women: 47 % ; Men: 32 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 32 %
Services: Women: 50 % ; Men: 36 %
- NIGER:
Agrigulture: Women: 92 % ; Men: 84 %
Industry: Women: 0 % ; Men: 4 %
Services: Women: 8 % ; Men: 12 %
- NIGERIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 67 % ; Men: 64 %
Industry: Women: 7 % ; Men: 16 %
Services: Women: 26 % ; Men: 20 %
- REUNION:
Agrigulture: Women: 2 % ; Men: 16 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 26 %
Services: Women: 94 % ; Men: 58 %
- RWANDA:
Agrigulture: Women: 98 % ; Men: 86 %
Industry: Women: 1 % ; Men: 6 %
Services: Women: 2 % ; Men: 8 %
- SAO TOME & PRINCIPE:
Agrigulture: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Industry: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Services: Women: .. ; Men: ..
- SENEGAL:
Agrigulture: Women: 87 % ; Men: 72 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 10 %
Services: Women: 10 % ; Men: 18 %
- SEYCHELLES:
Agrigulture: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Industry: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Services: Women: .. ; Men: ..
- SIERRA LEONE:
Agrigulture: Women: 78 % ; Men: 56 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 22 %
Services: Women: 17 % ; Men: 23 %
- SOMALIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 87 % ; Men: 61 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 15 %
Services: Women: 11 % ; Men: 24 %
- SOUTH AFRICA:
Agrigulture: Women: 13 % ; Men: 11 %
Industry: Women: 17 % ; Men: 48 %
Services: Women: 70 % ; Men: 40 %
- SUDAN:
Agrigulture: Women: 84 % ; Men: 60 %
Industry: Women: 5 % ; Men: 10 %
Services: Women: 11 % ; Men: 29 %
- SWAZILAND:
Agrigulture: Women: 78 % ; Men: 60 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 16 %
Services: Women: 18 % ; Men: 24 %
- TANZANIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 89 % ; Men: 73 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 10 %
Services: Women: 9 % ; Men: 17 %
- TOGO:
Agrigulture: Women: 64 % ; Men: 72 %
Industry: Women: 8 % ; Men: 13 %
Services: Women: 28 % ; Men: 15 %
- TUNISIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 47 % ; Men: 25 %
Industry: Women: 44 % ; Men: 46 %
Services: Women: 10 % ; Men: 28 %
- UGANDA:
Agrigulture: Women: 85 % ; Men: 80 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 8 %
Services: Women: 12 % ; Men: 12 %
- WESTERN SAHARA:
Agrigulture: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Industry: Women: .. ; Men: ..
Services: Women: .. ; Men: ..
- ZAÏRE:
Agrigulture: Women: 92 % ; Men: 49 %
Industry: Women: 2 % ; Men: 22 %
Services: Women: 6 % ; Men: 29 %
- ZAMBIA:
Agrigulture: Women: 82 % ; Men: 65 %
Industry: Women: 3 % ; Men: 14 %
Services: Women: 15 % ; Men: 21 %
- ZIMBABWE:
Agrigulture: Women: 80 % ; Men: 62 %
Industry: Women: 4 % ; Men: 17 %
Services: Women: 16 % ; Men: 21 %
Sources: International Labour Organization (United Nations)
The statistics used here are from the United Nations,
The World' Women 1995 - Trends and Statistics (United Nations publications,
Sales No. E.95XII.2 (In French, F.95. XII.2) and are quoted with permission.
Further information on United Nations gender statistics may be found at the
United Nations Statistics Division's Internet home page http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd
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