Country profile category: Economy
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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.) |