• Economics

Women Dominate Street Businesses: Census

• By Ou Sokmean
• December 28, 2023 10:50 AM

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia has a total of 753,670 businesses and these are operated by nearly three million people, according to the latest census.

Street businesses – stalls or booths at a specific location – amount to 77,073, or 10.2% of the total, according to the Economic Census 2022 released on Dec. 26.

A Ministry of Planning report says 75% of the street businesses are owned by women. Street business with one or two operators account for about 89% of the female-owned businesses.

The data showed that there are between one and nine people or employees in each street business. Among them, there are 48,330 enterprises with one person, 22,690 locations with two people, 3,659 locations with three people and 1,331 businesses with four. 

There are 532 businesses with five, 251 with six, 150 with seven, 84 with eight and 46 with nine.  

Apart from street businesses, there are 511,412 home-based businesses, accounting for 67.9 percent of the country’s economic entities, while flat-based business are at 37,531 locations, equal to 5%.

The report says traditional market businesses were at 93,982 locations (equal to 12.5%). Supermarket businesses were at 2,159 locations (0.3%). Exclusive blocks or business buildings were at 27,954 locations (3.7%) and other businesses were at 3,559 locations (equal to 0.5%).

Most businesses are owned by Cambodians, accounting for 99.1% or 747,010 enterprises. There are also 2,608 Chinese-owned enterprises, 1,581 Vietnamese, 1,198 other Asian and 439 South Korean.



Originally written in Khmer for ThmeyThmey, this article was translated by Torn Chanritheara for Cambodianess.