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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.)

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005
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