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Persons with disabilities remain excluded from labour market – Report
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Headlines - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia RSS
It is the fourth comprehensive labour force survey conducted in The Gambia and its main objective is to generate accurate and timely labour market and socio-economic data to guide evidence-based policy formulation and inform national development planning processes.
However, according to the latest report Persons With Disabilities participation rate dropped significantly from 32.8% to 20.1%, compared to 47.4 % among those without disabilities.
Informality among this group remains high, at 78.8 % in the latest Gambia Labour Force Survey.
“Agriculture declined from 21.0% to 17.6 per cent, and industry remained relatively stable at around 21 per cent.
Within the industry sector, manufacturing employment accounted for 8.9% of total employment in GLFS 2025, slightly down from 9.1% in GLFS 2022-23.”Also, females continued to dominate in agriculture and services, while males were more engaged in industry.