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PHC Economic Activity.

VERSION v2026-06-07
UPDATED 91d ago
CHECKED 2d ago
COVERAGE 2012 - 2022
SHAPE 647 × 9
SIZE 11.3 KB
FREQUENCY irregular
PIPELINE automated
LICENSE CC-BY-4.0

Labour force participation rate, employment-to-population ratio, and distribution of employed population by economic activity (industry) and occupation, drawn from Rwanda's 4th (2012) and 5th (2022) Population and Housing Census. RPHC4 source is RPHC_2012_Theme_09_labour_Force.xls (305 KB, 61 sheets); RPHC5 source is Economic_activity_Thematic_Report.xlsx (77 KB, 27 sheets). Both are direct static downloads from the NISR portal with no authentication required. Province-level LFPR/EPR available for 2012; district-level EPR for 2022 (31 geographies including Rwanda). Industry and occupation breakdowns are national only for both editions. RPHC4 labels the thematic report "Labour Force Participation"; RPHC5 labels it "Economic Activity" - categories are normalized across editions.

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EMPLOYMENT

Agriculture's grip on Rwandan jobs is loosening: it employed 53% of workers in 2022, down from 75% in 2012.

Share of workers by industry · percent · censuses 2012 and 2022

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SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda · PHC Economic Activity (irregular) · Updated 2026-06-07
BOUNDARIES: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda · via geoBoundaries ADM2 · CC BY 4.0
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CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). PHC Economic Activity [Data set]. imibare. v2026-06-07. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-economic-activity.irregular