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Country | Labor force
Afghanistan | 11.8 million (2001 est.)
Albania | 1.35 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2003 est.)
Algeria | 9.6 million (2003)
American Samoa | 14,000 (1996)
Andorra | 33,000 (2001 est.)
Angola | 5.57 million (2003 est.)
Anguilla | 6,049 (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda | 30,000
Argentina | 14.92 million (2003)
Armenia | 1.4 million (2001)
Aruba | 41,500 (1997 est.)
Australia | 10.19 million (37256)
Austria | 3.425 million (2003)
Azerbaijan | 4.99 million (2003)
Bahamas, The | 156,000 (1999)
Bahrain | 350,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003 est.)
Bangladesh | 64.02 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 (2003)
Barbados | 128,500 (2001 est.)
Belarus | 4.8 million (2000 est.)
Belgium | 4.73 million (2003)
Belize | 90,000 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2001 est.)
Benin | NA (1996)
Bermuda | 37,470 (2000)
Bhutan | NA note: massive lack of skilled labor (1997 est.)
Bolivia | 4.1 million (2003)
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.026 million (2001)
Botswana | 264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
Brazil | 82.59 million (2003 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 | 3.333 million (2003 est.)
Burkina Faso | 5 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
Burma | 22.14 million (2003 est.)
Burundi | 2.99 million (2002)
Cambodia | 7 million (2003 est.)
Cameroon | 6.49 million NA (2003)
Canada | 17.04 million (2003 est.)
Cape Verde | NA (1980)
Cayman Islands | 19,820 (1995)
Central African Republic | NA (2000 est.)
Chad | NA (2002)
Chile | 6 million (2003 est.)
China | 778.1 million (2003 est.)
Christmas Island | NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | NA
Colombia | 20.34 million (2003 est.)
Comoros | 144,500 (1996 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 14.51 million (1993 est.)
Congo, Republic of the | NA (2000 est.)
Cook Islands | 8,000 (1996)
Costa Rica | 1.758 million (2003)
Cote d'Ivoire | 6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)
Croatia | 1.69 million (2003)
Cuba | 4.58 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2003 est.)
Cyprus | 330,000 Republic of Cyprus: 306,000; north Cyprus: 95,025 (2003)
Czech Republic | 5.25 million (2003 est.)
Denmark | 2.863 million (2003 est.)
Djibouti | 282,000 (2000)
Dominica | 25,000 (1999 est.)
Dominican Republic | 2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)
East Timor | NA
Ecuador | 4.36 million (urban) (2003)
Egypt | 20.19 million (2003 est.)
El Salvador | 2.62 million (2003)
Equatorial Guinea | NA (October 2000)
Eritrea | NA (1999)
Estonia | 654,000 (2003 est.)
Ethiopia | NA (2001 est.)
European Union | 211.1 million
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | 1,100 (est.)
Faroe Islands | 24,250 (October 2000)
Fiji | 137,000 (1999)
Finland | 2.599 million (2003 est.)
France | 27.39 million (2003 est.)
French Guiana | 58,800 (1997)
French Polynesia | 70,000 (1996)
Gabon | 610,000 (2003)
Gambia, The | 400,000 (1996)
Gaza Strip | NA (1997)
Georgia | 2.1 million (2001 est.)
Germany | 42.63 million (2003)
Ghana | 10 million (2003 est.)
Gibraltar | 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (1999)
Greece | 4.39 million (2003 est.)
Greenland | 24,500 (1999 est.)
Grenada | 42,300 (1996)
Guadeloupe | 125,900 (1997)
Guam | 60,000 (2000 est.)
Guatemala | 3.84 million (2003 est.)
Guernsey | 31,320 (2000)
Guinea | 3 million (1999)
Guinea-Bissau | 480,000 (1999)
Guyana | 418,000 (2001 est.)
Haiti | 3.6 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1995)
Holy See (Vatican City) | NA
Honduras | 2.41 million (2003 est.)
Hong Kong | 3.5 million (2003 est.)
Hungary | 4.164 million (2003)
Iceland | 160,000 (2003)
India | 472 million (2003)
Indonesia | 105.7 million (2003)
Iran | 22.32 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)
Iraq | 7.8 million (2004 est.)
Ireland | 1.871 million (2003)
Israel | 2.61 million (2003 est.)
Italy | 24.15 million (2003 est.)
Jamaica | 1.13 million (2003)
Japan | 66.66 million (2003)
Jersey | 57,050 (1996)
Jordan | 1.36 million (2003)
Kazakhstan | 7.634 million (2003)
Kenya | 11.45 million (2003 est.)
Kiribati | 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
Korea, North | 9.6 million
Korea, South | 22.92 million (2003)
Kuwait | 1.38 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force. (2003 est.)
Kyrgyzstan | 2.7 million (2000)
Laos | 2.6 million (2001 est.)
Latvia | 1.18 million (2003 est.)
Lebanon | 1.5 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)
Lesotho | 838,000 (2000)
Libya | 1.51 million (2003 est.)
Liechtenstein | 29,000 of whom 19,000 are foreigners; 13,000 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (31 December 2001)
Lithuania | 1.642 million (2003 est.)
Luxembourg | 200,000 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2003)
Macau | 214,000 (2002)
Macedonia | 860,000 (2003 est.)
Madagascar | 7.3 million (2000)
Malawi | 4.5 million (2001 est.)
Malaysia | 10.26 million (2003 est.)
Maldives | 88,000 (2000)
Mali | 3.93 million (2001 est.)
Malta | 160,000 (2002 est.)
Man, Isle of | 36,610 (1998)
Marshall Islands | 28,700 (1996 est.)
Martinique | 165,900 (1998)
Mauritania | 786,000 (2001)
Mauritius | 560,000 (2003)
Mayotte | 48,800 (2000)
Mexico | 34.11 million (2003)
Micronesia, Federated States of | NA (2000 est.)
Moldova | 1.383 million (2003)
Monaco | 30,540 (January 1994)
Mongolia | 1.4 million (2001)
Montserrat | 4,521 ; note - lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
Morocco | 10.84 million (2003)
Mozambique | 9.2 million (2000 est.)
Namibia | 760,000 (2003)
Nepal | 10 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
Netherlands | 7.46 million (2003)
Netherlands Antilles | 89,000 (2000)
New Caledonia | 79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed, 1996)
New Zealand | 2.008 million (2003 est.)
Nicaragua | 1.91 million (2003)
Niger | 70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)
Nigeria | 54.36 million (2003 est.)
Niue | NA (1998 est.)
Norfolk Island | NA
Northern Mariana Islands | 6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (June 1995)
Norway | 2.38 million (2003 est.)
Oman | 920,000 (2002 est.)
Pakistan | 43.98 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2003)
Palau | 9,845 (2000)
Panama | 1.19 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2003 est.)
Papua New Guinea | 3.25 million (2003)
Paraguay | 2.15 million (2003 est.)
Peru | 8.63 million (2003 est.)
Philippines | 34.56 million (2003)
Pitcairn Islands | 12 able-bodied men (1997)
Poland | 16.92 million (2003 est.)
Portugal | 5.409 million (2003)
Puerto Rico | 1.3 million (2000)
Qatar | 140,000 (2003 est.)
Reunion | 309,900 (2000)
Romania | 9.28 million (2003 est.)
Russia | 71.68 million (2003 est.)
Rwanda | 4.6 million (2000)
Saint Helena | 3,500 note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis | 18,170 (June 1995)
Saint Lucia | 43,800 (2001 est.)
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 | 6.43 million note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003)
Senegal | 4.62 million NA (2003)
Serbia and Montenegro | 2.93 million (2003 est.)
Seychelles | 30,900 (1996)
Sierra Leone | 1.369 million (1981 est.)
Singapore | 2.2 million (2003)
Slovakia | 2.58 million (2003)
Slovenia | 875,000 (2003)
Solomon Islands | 26,840 (1999)
Somalia | 3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)
South Africa | 16.35 million economically active (2003)
Spain | 18.82 million (2003)
Sri Lanka | 7.17 million (2003)
Sudan | 11 million (1996 est.)
Suriname | 100,000
Svalbard | NA
Swaziland | 383,200 (2000)
Sweden | 4.449 million (2003 est.)
Switzerland | 3.72 million (2003)
Syria | 4.97 million (2003 est.)
Taiwan | 10.08 million (2003)
Tajikistan | 3.187 million (2000)
Tanzania | 18.56 million (2003)
Thailand | 34.9 million (2003 est.)
Togo | 1.74 million (1996)
Tokelau | NA
Tonga | 33,910 (1996)
Trinidad and Tobago | 590,000 (2003)
Tunisia | 3.461 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)
Turkey | 23.79 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003)
Turkmenistan | 2.34 million (1996)
Turks and Caicos Islands | 4,848 (1990 est.)
Tuvalu | 7,000 (2001 est.)
Uganda | 12.09 million (2003 est.)
Ukraine | 21.29 million (2003)
United Arab Emirates | 2.16 million note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003)
United Kingdom | 29.6 million (2003)
United States | 147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2003)
Uruguay | 1.56 million (2003)
Uzbekistan | 14.2 million (2003 est.)
Vanuatu | NA
Venezuela | 11.38 million (2003)
Vietnam | 45.74 million (2003 est.)
Virgin Islands | 48,900 (2003 est.)
Wallis and Futuna | NA
West Bank | NA
Western Sahara | 12,000
World | NA
Yemen | 5.79 million (2003 est.)
Zambia | 4.59 million (2003)
Zimbabwe | 4.17 million (2003 est.)
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