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Country | Labor force
Afghanistan | 10 million (2000 est.)
Albania | 1.283 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed) (2000 est.)
Algeria | 9.4 million (2001 est.)
American Samoa | 14,000 (1996)
Andorra | 33,000 (2001 est.)
Angola | 5 million (1997 est.)
Anguilla | 6,049 (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda | 30,000
Argentina | 15 million (1999)
Armenia | 1.4 million (2001)
Aruba | 41,501 (1997 est.)
Australia | 9.2 million (37256)
Austria | 4.3 million (2001)
Azerbaijan | 3.7 million (2001)
Bahamas, The | 156,000 (1999)
Bahrain | 295,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (1998 est.)
Bangladesh | 64.1 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 (1998)
Barbados | 128,500 (2001 est.)
Belarus | 4.8 million (2000)
Belgium | 4.44 million (2001)
Belize | 90,000 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel
Benin | NA
Bermuda | 37,472 (2000)
Bhutan | NA note: massive lack of skilled labor
Bolivia | 2.5 million
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.026 million
Botswana | 264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
Brazil | 79 million (1999 est.)
British Virgin Islands | 4,911 (1980)
Brunei | 143,400 note: includes foreign workers and military personnel; temporary residents make up about 40% of labor force (1999 est.)
Bulgaria | 3.83 million (2000 est.)
Burkina Faso | 5 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2002)
Burma | 23.7 million (1999 est.)
Burundi | 3.7 million (2000)
Cambodia | 6 million (1998 est.)
Cameroon | NA
Canada | 16.4 million (2001 est.)
Cape Verde | NA
Cayman Islands | 19,820 (1995)
Central African Republic | NA
Chad | NA
Chile | 5.9 million (2000 est.)
China | 744 million (2001 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 | 8,000 (1996)
Costa Rica | 1.9 million (1999)
Cote d'Ivoire | 68% agricultural (2000 est.)
Croatia | 1.7 million (2001)
Cuba | 4.3 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2000 est.)
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
East Timor | NA
Ecuador | 3.7 million (urban)
Egypt | 20.6 million (2001 est.)
El Salvador | 2.35 million (1999)
Equatorial Guinea | NA
Eritrea | NA
Estonia | 608,600 (2001 est.)
Ethiopia | NA
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | 1,100 (est.)
Faroe Islands | 24,250 (October 2000)
Fiji | 137,000 (1999)
Finland | 2.6 million (2000 est.)
France | 26.6 million (2001 est.)
French Guiana | 58,800 (1997)
French Polynesia | 70,000 (1996)
Gabon | 600,000
Gambia, The | 400,000
Gaza Strip | NA
Georgia | 2.1 million (2001 est.)
Germany | 41.9 million (2001)
Ghana | 9 million (2000 est.)
Gibraltar | 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers)
Greece | 4.37 million (2002 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 | 418,000 (2001 est.)
Haiti | 3.6 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1995)
Holy See (Vatican City) | NA
Honduras | 2.3 million (1997 est.)
Hong Kong | 3.52 million (2001 est.)
Hungary | 4.2 million (1997)
Iceland | 159,000 (2000)
India | 406 million (1999)
Indonesia | 99 million (1999)
Iran | 21 million note: shortage of skilled labor (1998)
Iraq | 6.5 million (2002 est.)
Ireland | 1.8 million (2001)
Israel | 2.5 million (2002 est.)
Italy | 23.6 million (2001 est.)
Jamaica | 1.13 million (1998)
Japan | 67.7 million (December 2001)
Jersey | 57,050 (1996)
Jordan | 1.36 million (2002)
Kazakhstan | 8.4 million (1999)
Kenya | 10 million (2001 est.)
Kiribati | 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers
Korea, North | 9.6 million
Korea, South | 22 million (2001)
Kuwait | 1.3 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force. (1998 est.)
Kyrgyzstan | 2.7 million (2000)
Laos | 2.4 million (1999)
Latvia | 1.1 million (2001 est.)
Lebanon | 1.5 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)
Lesotho | 838,000
Libya | 1.5 million (2000 est.)
Liechtenstein | 29,000 of which 19,000 are foreigners; 13,000 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (37256)
Lithuania | 1.5 million (2001 est.)
Luxembourg | 262,300 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2000)
Macau | 214,000 (2002)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of | 1.1 million (2000 est.)
Madagascar | 7.3 million (2000)
Malawi | 4.5 million (2001 est.)
Malaysia | 9.9 million (2001 est.)
Maldives | 88,000 (2000)
Mali | 3.93 million (2001 est.)
Malta | 160,000 (2002 est.)
Man, Isle of | 36,610 (1998)
Marshall Islands | 28,698
Martinique | 165,900 (1998)
Mauritania | 786,000 (2001)
Mauritius | 514,000 (1995)
Mayotte | 48,800 (2000)
Mexico | 39.8 million (2000)
Micronesia, Federated States of | NA
Moldova | 1.7 million (1998)
Monaco | 30,540 (January 1994)
Mongolia | 1.4 million (2001)
Montserrat | 4,521 ; note - lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity
Morocco | 11 million (1999)
Mozambique | 9.2 million (2000 est.)
Namibia | 725,000 (2000)
Nepal | 10 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
Netherlands | 7.2 million (2000)
Netherlands Antilles | 89,000
New Caledonia | 79,395 (including 15,018 unemployed, 1996)
New Zealand | 1.92 million (2001 est.)
Nicaragua | 1.7 million (1999)
Niger | 70,000 receive regular wages or salaries
Nigeria | 66 million (1999 est.)
Niue | NA
Norfolk Island | NA
Northern Mariana Islands | 6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers
Norway | 2.4 million (2000 est.)
Oman | 920,000 (2002 est.)
Pakistan | 40.4 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2000)
Palau | 9,845 (2000)
Panama | 1.1 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2000 est.)
Papua New Guinea | 2.3 million (1999)
Paraguay | 2 million (2000 est.)
Peru | 7.5 million (2000 est.)
Philippines | 33.7 million (2002)
Pitcairn Islands | 12 able-bodied men (1997)
Poland | 17.6 million (2000 est.)
Portugal | 5.1 million (2000)
Puerto Rico | 1.3 million (2000)
Qatar | 280,122 (1997 est.)
Reunion | 309,900 (2000)
Romania | 9.9 million (1999 est.)
Russia | 71.8 million (2002 est.)
Rwanda | 4.6 million (2000)
Saint Helena | 3,500 note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 18,172 (June 1995)
Saint Lucia | 43,800
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 3,261 (1999)
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
Senegal | NA
Serbia and Montenegro | 3 million (2001 est.)
Seychelles | 30,900 (1996)
Sierra Leone | 1.369 million (1981 est.)
Singapore | 2.19 million (2000)
Slovakia | 3 million (1999)
Slovenia | 857,400
Solomon Islands | 26,842
Somalia | 3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)
South Africa | 17 million economically active
Spain | 17.1 million (2001)
Sri Lanka | 6.6 million (1998)
Sudan | 11 million (1996 est.)
Suriname | 100,000
Svalbard | NA
Swaziland | 383,200 (2000)
Sweden | 4.4 million (2000 est.)
Switzerland | 4 million (2001)
Syria | 5.2 million (2000 est.)
Taiwan | 10 million (2003)
Tajikistan | 3.187 million (2000)
Tanzania | 13.495 million
Thailand | 33.4 million (2001 est.)
Togo | 1.74 million (1996)
Tokelau | NA
Tonga | 33,908 (1996)
Trinidad and Tobago | 564,000 (2000)
Tunisia | 2.69 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2001 est.)
Turkey | 23.8 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2001 3rd quarter)
Turkmenistan | 2.34 million (1996)
Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,848 (1990 est.)
Tuvalu | 7,000 (2001 est.)
Uganda | 12 million (2001 est.)
Ukraine | 22.8 million (yearend 1997)
United Arab Emirates | 1.6 million (2000 est.) note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 2002 est.) (2000 est.)
United Kingdom | 29.7 million (2001)
United States | 141.8 million (includes unemployed) (2001)
Uruguay | 1.2 million (2001)
Uzbekistan | 11.9 million (1998 est.)
Vanuatu | NA
Venezuela | 9.9 million (1999)
Vietnam | 38.2 million (1998 est.)
Virgin Islands | 49,000 (2002 est.)
Wallis and Futuna | NA
West Bank | NA
Western Sahara | 12,000
World | NA
Yemen | NA
Zambia | 4.29 million (2000)
Zimbabwe | 5.8 million (2000 est.)
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