The statistic shows the distribution of employment in Cambodia by economic sector from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, 36.01 percent of the employees in Cambodia were active in the agricultural sector, 26.91 percent in industry and 37.08 percent in the service sector.

Cambodia Employment Rate data was reported at 82.800 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 85.400 % for 2020. Cambodia Employment Rate data is updated yearly, averaging 84.100 % from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 85.400 % in 2020 and a record low of 82.800 % in 2021. Cambodia Employment Rate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.G006: Employment and Employment Rate: Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES).

Graph and download economic data for Employment to Population Ratio for Cambodia (SLEMPTOTLSPZSKHM) from 1991 to 2024 about Cambodia, employment-population ratio, population, and employment.

Cambodia Employment: Phnom Penh data was reported at 1,290.000 Person th in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,305.000 Person th for 2020. Cambodia Employment: Phnom Penh data is updated yearly, averaging 1,297.500 Person th from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,305.000 Person th in 2020 and a record low of 1,290.000 Person th in 2021. Cambodia Employment: Phnom Penh data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.G006: Employment and Employment Rate: Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES).

Actual value and historical data chart for Cambodia Employment In Agriculture Percent Of Total Employment

Actual value and historical data chart for Cambodia Employment In Industry Percent Of Total Employment

Cambodia KH: Unemployment: National Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data was reported at 0.833 % in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.476 % for 2020. Cambodia KH: Unemployment: National Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data is updated yearly, averaging 1.045 % from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2021, with 19 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.343 % in 2000 and a record low of 0.383 % in 2017. Cambodia KH: Unemployment: National Estimate: Youth: % of Total Labour Force Aged 15-24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Youth unemployment refers to the share of the labor force ages 15-24 without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country.;International Labour Organization. “Labour Force Statistics database (LFS)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;The series for ILO estimates is also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.

Cambodia Employment Rate: Phnom Penh data was reported at 72.700 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 77.500 % for 2020. Cambodia Employment Rate: Phnom Penh data is updated yearly, averaging 75.100 % from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 77.500 % in 2020 and a record low of 72.700 % in 2021. Cambodia Employment Rate: Phnom Penh data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.G006: Employment and Employment Rate: Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES).

In 2024, the unemployment rate in Cambodia amounted to 0.27 percent. Between 1991 and 2024, the figure dropped by 0.51 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory.

Employment to population ratio, 15+, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) in Cambodia was reported at 73.73 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Cambodia - Employment to population ratio, 15+, female - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Unemployment Rate in Cambodia increased to 0.27 percent in 2024 from 0.23 percent in 2023. This dataset provides - Cambodia Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Labor force, total in Cambodia was reported at 9903822 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Cambodia - Labor force, total - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

Cambodia Employment Rate: Women data was reported at 78.000 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 81.000 % for 2020. Cambodia Employment Rate: Women data is updated yearly, averaging 79.500 % from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2021, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 81.000 % in 2020 and a record low of 78.000 % in 2021. Cambodia Employment Rate: Women data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.G006: Employment and Employment Rate: Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES).

Abstract

The main objectives of the CLF-CLS 2011-2012 are to collect detailed information on the country's labour force of persons 15 years old and above and children 5 to 17 years old disaggregated by age, gender, region, sector and social category. The survey provides information on the national labour market that can then be used to develop, manage and evaluate labour market policies and programmes. Also, the survey provides detailed information on child workers and hazards at work.

It is intended to promote a gender mainstreamed analysis of the labour market and compile national and provincial statistics relating to informal employment, working poor and vulnerable employment. These statistics will be especially useful to government as it attempts to identify the problems that Cambodians face in the area of employment. With this information available, planners and policy makers will then be better placed to develop policies and programmes to improve the welfare of the people and some information on working people and child labour.

Geographic coverage

National, Urban, Rural, All of provinces in Cambodia (24 Provinces)

Analysis unit

Individuals

Universe

1. Geographic part: All members from households in Cambodia
2. Education and labour force parts: All members aged 5 and over from households in Cambodia

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The Cambodia Labour Force and Child Labour Survey 2011-12 covered 24 Capital/provinces in the country and involved 600 Enumeration Areas (EA) randomly selected as primary sampling units, or PSUs, and 9,600 households randomly selected as secondary sampling units, or SSUs. Each EA was randomly selected 16 sample household. Totally, there were 9,600 households to be interviewed.

The sampling frame was based on the village population data files from the 2008 general population census, conducted by the NIS. The CLF-CLS 2011-12 was undertaken in two stages with EAs as the primary sampling units and households as secondary sampling units. It consists of 600 primary sampling units (PSUs) or EAs. Out of the total sample EAs, 54 EAs were allocated for urban areas and the remainder 546 EAs for rural areas.

For details please refer to the document entitled "Report on Selection of Sampled Households from the Sampling Frame for Cambodia Labour Force and Child Labour Survey 2011-2012".

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The following are the LFCLS forms used during the field enumeration and a brief outline of the fieldwork procedures:

2.1 Listing Sheet

This is a sheet containing a list of the buildings, housing units and households within an enumeration area (EA). Other information pertaining to population of households were also recorded.

Listing sheet was used to record all households in the village or part thereof selected for household enumeration. The current list of households was necessary for sampling households and also as an input to derive household weights

2.2 Questionnaire

The Cambodia Labour Force and Child Labour questionnaire consists of a cover page, which contains general information on the household, followed by the 12 sections:

A. Household composition and characteristics of household members B. Literacy and Education
C. Training within the last 12 months (outside of the general education system) D. Current activities E. Characteristics of the main job/activity in the last 7 days F. Characteristics of the secondary job/activity in the last 7 days G. Hours of work H. Underemployment I. Job search J. Occupational injuries within the last 12 months K. Participation in production of goods for use by own household L. Other activities

Cleaning operations

All completed questionnaires were brought to NIS for processing. Although completed questionnaires were checked and edited by supervisors in the field, specially because of the length of questionnaires and the complexity of the topics covered the need for manual editing and coding by trained staff was accepted as an essential priority activity to produce a cleaned data file without delay. In all 4 staff comprising 3 processing staff and 1 supervisor were trained for two days by the project staff. An instruction manual for manual editing and coding was prepared and translated into Khmer for the guidance of processing staff.

In order to produce an unedited data file, keying in the data as recorded by field enumerators and supervisors, (without subjecting data to manual edit as required by the Analysis Component Project staff), it was necessary to structure manual editing as a two-phase operation. Thus in the first phase, the processing staff coded the questions such as those industry, and occupation which required coding. Editing was restricted to selected structural edits and some error corrections. These edits were restricted to checking the completeness and consistency of responses, legibility, and totaling of selected questions. Error corrections were made without canceling or obliterating the original entry made by the enumerator, by inserting the correction close to the original entry.

Much of the manual editing was carried out in the second phase, after key entry and one hundred percent verification and extraction of error print outs. A wide range of errors had to be corrected which was expected in view of the complexity of the survey and the skill background of the enumeration and processing staff. The manual edits involved the correction of errors arising from incorrect key entry, in-correct/ failure to include identification, miss-coding of answers, failure to follow skip patterns, misinterpretation of measures, range errors, and other consistency errors.

Response rate

Despite the length of the questionnaire, the respondents cooperated with the survey staff and provided answers to both questionnaires and it was possible to achieve a 100% response rate. At this stage it is not possible to comment on item non-response, and completeness of information provided by the respondents, and the respondent's fatigue arising from the length of the interviews which may have had a bearing on these issues.

This statistic depicts the employment in the garments industry in Cambodia in 2012, by gender. In this year, the number of females employed in the garments industry in Cambodia totaled around *** thousand employees.

Cambodia KH: Wage And Salaried Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employment data was reported at 43.654 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 43.401 % for 2022. Cambodia KH: Wage And Salaried Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employment data is updated yearly, averaging 31.597 % from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2023, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 46.034 % in 2012 and a record low of 14.271 % in 1996. Cambodia KH: Wage And Salaried Workers: Modeled ILO Estimate: % of Total Employment data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as 'paid employment jobs,' where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.;International Labour Organization. “ILO modelled estimates database” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;

Actual value and historical data chart for Cambodia Employment To Population Ratio 15 Plus Total Percent

Cambodia KH: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data was reported at 66.588 % in 2021. This records a decrease from the previous number of 70.784 % for 2020. Cambodia KH: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data is updated yearly, averaging 71.337 % from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2021, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 78.326 % in 2011 and a record low of 53.310 % in 1998. Cambodia KH: Employment To Population Ratio: National Estimate: Aged 15-24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cambodia – Table KH.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed. Employment is defined as persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period (i.e. who worked in a job for at least one hour) or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangements. Ages 15-24 are generally considered the youth population.;International Labour Organization. “Labour Force Statistics database (LFS)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;The series for ILO estimates is also available in the WDI database. Caution should be used when comparing ILO estimates with national estimates.

Actual value and historical data chart for Cambodia Employees Agriculture Female Percent Of Female Employment

Time series data for the statistic Contributing family workers, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) and country Cambodia. Indicator Definition:Contributing family workers are those workers who hold "self-employment jobs" as own-account workers in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household.The indicator "Contributing family workers, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate)" stands at 12.50 as of 12/31/2023, the lowest value at least since 12/31/1992, the period currently displayed. Regarding the One-Year-Change of the series, the current value constitutes a decrease of -4.26 percent compared to the value the year prior.The 1 year change in percent is -4.26.The 3 year change in percent is -13.92.The 5 year change in percent is -26.05.The 10 year change in percent is -50.56.The Serie's long term average value is 37.43. It's latest available value, on 12/31/2023, is 66.60 percent lower, compared to it's long term average value.The Serie's change in percent from it's minimum value, on 12/31/2023, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2023, is +0.0%.The Serie's change in percent from it's maximum value, on 12/31/1997, to it's latest available value, on 12/31/2023, is -78.52%.