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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 (December 2001)
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 (1999)
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 (December 2001)
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 (2002 est.)
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.)
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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