| Labor force Country profile category: Economy |
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.)