Percentage of total employment in Tanzania 2020-2021, by status
Self-employment constituted the largest share of employment in Tanzania between June 2020 and July 2021. Around 54 percent of the employed Tanzanians held a self-employed job in the period, which indicated risky employment, according to the source. The share of paid employment (wage and salaried workers) reached 14.3 percent, while the proportion of contributing family workers, also known as unpaid family workers, reached 29 percent.