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Labor force Country profile category: Economy |
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z |
Afghanistan: | 10 million (2000 est.) |
Albania: | 1.692 million (including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed) (1994 est.) |
Algeria: | 9.1 million (2000 est.) |
American Samoa: | 14,000 (1996) |
Andorra: | 30,787 salaried employees (1998) |
Angola: | 5 million (1997 est.) |
Anguilla: | 4,400 (1992) |
Antigua and Barbuda: | 30,000 |
Argentina: | 15 million (1999) |
Armenia: | 1.5 million (1999) |
Aruba: | 41,501 (1997 est.) |
Australia: | 9.5 million (December 1999) |
Austria: | 3.7 million (1999) |
Azerbaijan: | 2.9 million (1997) |
Bahamas, The: | 156,000 (1999) |
Bahrain: |
295,000 (1998 est.)
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) |
Bangladesh: |
64.1 million (1998)
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 |
Barbados: | 136,000 (1998 est.) |
Belarus: | 4.8 million (2000) |
Belgium: | 4.34 million (1999) |
Belize: |
71,000
note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (1997 est.) |
Benin: | NA |
Bermuda: | 35,296 (1997) |
Bhutan: |
NA
note: massive lack of skilled labor |
Bolivia: | 2.5 million |
Bosnia and Herzegovina: | 1.026 million |
Botswana: | 235,000 formal sector employees (1995) |
Brazil: | 79 million (1999 est.) |
British Virgin Islands: | 4,911 (1980) |
Brunei: |
144,000 (1995 est.); note - includes foreign workers and military personnel
note: temporary residents make up 41% of labor force (1991) |
Bulgaria: | 3.83 million (2000 est.) |
Burkina Faso: |
5 million (1999)
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment |
Burma: | 19.7 million (FY98/99 est.) |
Burundi: | 1.9 million |
Cambodia: | 6 million (1998 est.) |
Cameroon: | NA |
Canada: | 16.1 million (2000) |
Cape Verde: | NA |
Cayman Islands: | 19,820 (1995) |
Central African Republic: | NA |
Chad: | NA |
Chile: | 5.8 million (1999 est.) |
China: | 700 million (1998 est.) |
Christmas Island: | NA |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: | NA |
Colombia: | 18.3 million (1999 est.) |
Comoros: | 144,500 (1996 est.) |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 14.51 million (1993 est.) |
Congo, Republic of the: | NA |
Cook Islands: | 6,601 (1993) |
Costa Rica: | 1.9 million (1999) |
Cote d'Ivoire: | 68% agricultural (2000 est.) |
Croatia: | 1.68 million (October 2000) |
Cuba: |
4.3 million (2000 est.)
note: state sector 75%, non-state sector 25% (1998) |
Cyprus: | Greek Cypriot area: 291,000; Turkish Cypriot area: 86,300 (2000) |
Czech Republic: | 5.203 million (1999 est.) |
Denmark: | 2.856 million (2000 est.) |
Djibouti: | 282,000 |
Dominica: | 25,000 |
Dominican Republic: | 2.3 million - 2.6 million |
Ecuador: | 4.2 million |
Egypt: | 19.9 million (2000 est.) |
El Salvador: | 2.35 million (1999) |
Equatorial Guinea: | NA |
Eritrea: | NA |
Estonia: | 785,500 (1999 est.) |
Ethiopia: | NA |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): | 1,100 (est.) |
Faroe Islands: | 24,250 (October 2000) |
Fiji: | 235,000 |
Finland: | 2.6 million (2000 est.) |
France: | 25 million (2000) |
French Guiana: | 58,800 (1997) |
French Polynesia: | 70,000 (1996) |
Gabon: | 600,000 |
Gambia, The: | 400,000 |
Gaza Strip: | NA |
Georgia: | 3.08 million (1997) |
Germany: | 40.5 million (1999 est.) |
Ghana: | 9 million (2000 est.) |
Gibraltar: | 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) |
Greece: | 4.32 million (1999 est.) |
Greenland: | 24,500 (1999 est.) |
Grenada: | 42,300 (1996) |
Guadeloupe: | 125,900 (1997) |
Guam: | 60,000 (2000 est.) |
Guatemala: | 4.2 million (1999 est.) |
Guernsey: | 31,322 (2000) |
Guinea: | 3 million (1999) |
Guinea-Bissau: | 480,000 |
Guyana: | 245,492 (1992) |
Haiti: |
3.6 million (1995)
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1998) |
Holy See (Vatican City): | NA |
Honduras: | 2.3 million (1997 est.) |
Hong Kong: | 3.39 million (2000 est.) |
Hungary: | 4.2 million (1997) |
Iceland: | 159,000 (2000) |
India: | NA |
Indonesia: | 99 million (1999) |
Iran: |
17.3 million
note: shortage of skilled labor (1998) |
Iraq: | 4.4 million (1989) |
Ireland: | 1.82 million (2000 est.) |
Israel: | 2.4 million (2000 est.) |
Italy: | 23.4 million (2000) |
Jamaica: | 1.13 million (1998) |
Japan: | 67.7 million (December 2000) |
Jersey: | 57,050 (1996) |
Jordan: |
1.15 million
note: in addition, at least 300,000 workers are employed abroad (1997 est.) |
Kazakhstan: | 8.8 million (1997) |
Kenya: | 9.2 million (1998 est.) |
Kiribati: | 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (1985 est.) |
Korea, North: | 9.6 million |
Korea, South: | 22 million (2000) |
Kuwait: |
1.3 million (1998 est.)
note: 68% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) |
Kyrgyzstan: | 1.7 million |
Laos: | 1 million - 1.5 million |
Latvia: | 1.4 million (2000 est.) |
Lebanon: |
1.3 million (1999 est.)
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (1997 est.) |
Lesotho: | 700,000 economically active |
Libya: | 1.5 million (2000 est.) |
Liechtenstein: | 22,891 of which 13,847 are foreigners; 8,231 commute from Austria and Switzerland to work each day |
Lithuania: | 2 million (2000 est.) |
Luxembourg: | 248,000 (of whom 70,200 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2000) |
Macau: | 283,450 (1999) |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: | 1 million (1999 est.) |
Madagascar: | 7 million (1999) |
Malawi: | 3.5 million |
Malaysia: | 9.6 million (2000 est.) |
Maldives: | 67,000 (1995) |
Mali: | NA |
Malta: | 145,901 (1999) |
Man, Isle of: | 36,610 (1998) |
Marshall Islands: | NA |
Martinique: | 170,000 (1997) |
Mauritania: | 750,000 (1999) |
Mauritius: | 514,000 (1995) |
Mayotte: | NA |
Mexico: | 39.8 million (2000) |
Micronesia, Federated States of: | NA |
Moldova: | 1.7 million (1998) |
Monaco: | 30,540 (January 1994) |
Mongolia: | 1.3 million (1999) |
Montserrat: | 4,521 (1992); note - recently lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity |
Morocco: | 11 million (1997 est.) |
Mozambique: | 7.4 million (1997 est.) |
Namibia: | 500,000 |
Nepal: |
10 million (1996 est.)
note: severe lack of skilled labor |
Netherlands: | 7.2 million (2000) |
Netherlands Antilles: | 89,000 |
New Caledonia: | 79,395 (including 15, 018 unemployed, 1996) |
New Zealand: | 1.88 million (2000) |
Nicaragua: | 1.7 million (1999) |
Niger: | 70,000 receive regular wages or salaries |
Nigeria: | 66 million (1999 est.) |
Niue: | 450 (1992 est.) |
Norfolk Island: | 1,395 (1991 est.) |
Northern Mariana Islands: | 6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (1995) |
Norway: | 2.4 million (2000 est.) |
Oman: | 850,000 (1997 est.) |
Pakistan: |
40 million
note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2000 est.) |
Palau: | 8,300 (1999) |
Panama: |
1.1 million (2000 est.)
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor |
Papua New Guinea: | 1.941 million |
Paraguay: | 2 million (2000 est.) |
Peru: | 7.6 million (1996 est.) |
Philippines: | 48.1 million (2000 est.) |
Pitcairn Islands: | 12 able-bodied men (1997) |
Poland: | 17.2 million (1999 est.) |
Portugal: | 5 million (1999) |
Puerto Rico: | 1.3 million (2000) |
Qatar: | 233,000 (1993 est.) |
Reunion: | 261,000 (1995) |
Romania: | 9.9 million (1999 est.) |
Russia: | 66 million (1997) |
Rwanda: | 3.6 million |
Saint Helena: |
3,500 (1998 est.)
note: 1,200 of whom are working offshore |
Saint Kitts and Nevis: | 18,172 (June 1995) |
Saint Lucia: | 43,800 |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: | 3,000 (1997) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: | 67,000 (1984 est.) |
Samoa: | 90,000 (2000 est.) |
San Marino: | 18,500 (1999) |
Sao Tome and Principe: | NA |
Saudi Arabia: |
7 million
note: 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) |
Senegal: | NA |
Seychelles: | 30,900 (1996) |
Sierra Leone: |
1.369 million (1981 est.)
note: only about 65,000 wage earners (1985) |
Singapore: | 2.1 million (2000) |
Slovakia: | 3 million (1999) |
Slovenia: | 857,400 |
Solomon Islands: | 26,842 |
Somalia: | 3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers) (1993 est.) |
South Africa: | 17 million economically active (2000) |
Spain: | 17 million (2000) |
Sri Lanka: | 6.6 million (1998) |
Sudan: | 11 million (1996 est.) |
Suriname: | 100,000 |
Svalbard: | NA |
Swaziland: | NA |
Sweden: | 4.4 million (2000 est.) |
Switzerland: | 3.9 million (964,000 foreign workers, mostly Italian) (1998 est.) |
Syria: | 4.7 million (1998 est.) |
Tajikistan: | 1.9 million (1996) |
Tanzania: | 13.495 million |
Thailand: | 32.6 million (1997 est.) |
Togo: | 1.74 million (1996) |
Tokelau: | NA |
Tonga: | 34,000 (FY96/97) |
Trinidad and Tobago: | 558,700 (1998) |
Tunisia: |
2.65 million (2000 est.)
note: shortage of skilled labor |
Turkey: |
23 million (2000 est.)
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (1999) |
Turkmenistan: | 2.34 million (1996) |
Turks and Caicos Islands: | 4,848 (1990 est.) |
Tuvalu: | NA |
Uganda: | 8.361 million (1993 est.) |
Ukraine: | 22.8 million (yearend 1997) |
United Arab Emirates: |
1.4 million (1998 est.)
note: 75% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) |
United Kingdom: | 29.2 million (1999) |
United States: | 140.9 million (includes unemployed) (2000) |
Uruguay: | 1.5 million (1999 est.) |
Uzbekistan: | 11.9 million (1998 est.) |
Vanuatu: | NA |
Venezuela: | 9.9 million (1999) |
Vietnam: | 38.2 million (1998 est.) |
Virgin Islands: | 47,443 (1990 est.) |
Wallis and Futuna: | NA |
West Bank: | NA |
Western Sahara: | 12,000 |
World: | NA |
Yemen: | NA |
Yugoslavia: | 1.6 million (1999 est.) |
Zambia: | 3.4 million |
Zimbabwe: | 5.5 million (2000 est.) |
Taiwan: | 9.8 million (2000 est.) |