Field Listing :: Labor force

This entry contains the total labor force figure.

Country Comparison to the World

Country	Labor force

Afghanistan	15 million (2004 est.)

Albania	1.06 million (2010 est.)

Algeria	9.877 million (2010 est.)

American Samoa	17,630 (2005)

Andorra	38,220 (2010)

Angola	7.977 million (2010 est.)

Anguilla	6,049 (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda	30,000 (1991)

Argentina	16.62 million note: urban areas only (2010 est.)

Armenia	1.481 million (2007 est.)

Aruba	41,500 (2004 est.)

Australia	11.62 million (2010 est.)

Austria	3.7 million (2010 est.)

Azerbaijan	5.874 million (2010 est.)

Bahamas, The	184,000 (2009)

Bahrain	611,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2010 est.)

Bangladesh	73.87 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances were $10.9 billion in FY09/10 (2010 est.)

Barbados	175,000 (2007 est.)

Belarus	5 million (2009)

Belgium	5.02 million (2010 est.)

Belize	120,500 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2008 est.)

Benin	3.662 million (2007 est.)

Bermuda	38,360 (2004)

Bhutan	299,900 note: major shortage of skilled labor (2008)

Bolivia	4.186 million (2010 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.6 million (2010 est.)

Botswana	685,300 formal sector employees (2007)

Brazil	103.6 million (2010 est.)

British Virgin Islands	12,770 (2004)

Brunei	188,800 (2008)

Bulgaria	3.4 million (2009 est.)

Burkina Faso	6.668 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2007)

Burma	31.68 million (2010 est.)

Burundi	4.245 million (2007)

Cambodia	8.8 million (2010 est.)

Cameroon	7.836 million (2010 est.)

Canada	18.59 million (2010 est.)

Cape Verde	196,100 (2007)

Cayman Islands	39,000 note: nearly 55% are non-nationals (2007)

Central African Republic	1.926 million (2007)

Chad	4.293 million (2007)

Chile	7.58 million (2010 est.)

China	780 million (2010 est.)

Christmas Island	NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA

Colombia	21.27 million (2010 est.)

Comoros	268,500 (2007 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the	23.53 million (2007 est.)

Congo, Republic of the	1.514 million (2007)

Cook Islands	6,820 (2001)

Costa Rica	2.17 million note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2010 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire	7.617 million (2010 est.)

Croatia	1.762 million (2010 est.)

Cuba	5.164 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2010 est.)

Curacao	63,000 (2008 est.)

Cyprus	400,000 (2010 est.)

Czech Republic	5.37 million (2010 est.)

Denmark	2.82 million (2010 est.)

Djibouti	351,700 (2007)

Dominica	25,000 (2000 est.)

Dominican Republic	4.498 million (2010 est.)

Ecuador	4.59 million (urban) (2010 est.)

Egypt	26.1 million (2010 est.)

El Salvador	2.94 million (2010 est.)

Equatorial Guinea	195,200 (2007)

Eritrea	1.935 million (2007)

Estonia	688,000 (2010 est.)

Ethiopia	37.9 million (2007)

European Union	225.3 million (2010 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	1,724 (1996)

Faroe Islands	34,680 (November 2008)

Fiji	335,000 (2007 est.)

Finland	2.68 million (2010 est.)

France	28.21 million (2010 est.)

French Polynesia	116,000 (2007)

Gabon	712,000 (2010 est.)

Gambia, The	777,100 (2007)

Gaza Strip	339,000 (2009)

Georgia	1.918 million (2007 est.)

Germany	43.35 million (2010 est.)

Ghana	10.56 million (2010 est.)

Gibraltar	12,690 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (2001)

Greece	5.05 million (2010 est.)

Greenland	28,240 (January 2009)

Grenada	42,300 (1996)

Guam	82,950 (2007 est.)

Guatemala	4.26 million (2010 est.)

Guernsey	31,470 (March 2006)

Guinea	4.392 million (2007 est.)

Guinea-Bissau	632,700 (2007)

Guyana	333,900 (2007 est.)

Haiti	4.81 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2010 est.)

Holy See (Vatican City)	NA

Honduras	3.394 million (2010 est.)

Hong Kong	3.7 million (2010 est.)

Hungary	4.3 million (2010 est.)

Iceland	178,800 (2010)

India	478.3 million (2010 est.)

Indonesia	116.5 million (2010 est.)

Iran	25.7 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2010 est.)

Iraq	8.5 million (2009 est.)

Ireland	2.15 million (2010 est.)

Isle of Man	39,690 (2001)

Israel	3.08 million (2010 est.)

Italy	25.05 million (2010 est.)

Jamaica	1.317 million (2010 est.)

Japan	65.7 million (2010 est.)

Jersey	53,560 (June 2006)

Jordan	1.719 million (2010 est.)

Kazakhstan	8.718 million (2010 est.)

Kenya	17.94 million (2010 est.)

Kiribati	7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)

Korea, North	12.2 million note: estimates vary widely (2009 est.)

Korea, South	24.62 million (2010 est.)

Kosovo	310,000 (2009 est.)

Kuwait	2.154 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force (2010 est.)

Kyrgyzstan	2.344 million (2007)

Laos	3.69 million (2010 est.)

Latvia	1.178 million (2010 est.)

Lebanon	1.481 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2007 est.)

Lesotho	854,600 (2007 est.)

Liberia	1.372 million (2007)

Libya	1.729 million (2010 est.)

Liechtenstein	32,880 (2009) note: 51% of people at work in Liechtenstein commute daily from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany (2009)

Lithuania	1.633 million (2010 est.)

Luxembourg	206,000 note: 125,400 workers commute daily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2010 est.)

Macau	330,900 (2010 est.)

Macedonia	949,300 (2010 est.)

Madagascar	9.504 million (2007)

Malawi	5.747 million (2007 est.)

Malaysia	12.2 million (2010 est.)

Maldives	110,000 (2010)

Mali	3.241 million (2007 est.)

Malta	163,100 (2010)

Marshall Islands	14,680 (2000)

Mauritania	1.318 million (2007)

Mauritius	597,000 (2010 est.)

Mexico	46.99 million (2010 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of	16,360 (2008)

Moldova	1.203 million (2010 est.)

Monaco	44,000 note: includes workers from all foreign countries (2005 est.)

Mongolia	1.068 million (2008)

Montenegro	259,100 (2004)

Montserrat	NA

Morocco	11.63 million (2010 est.)

Mozambique	9.87 million (2010 est.)

Namibia	729,000 (2010 est.)

Nepal	18 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (2009 est.)

Netherlands	7.86 million (2010 est.)

New Caledonia	102,600 (2007)

New Zealand	2.32 million (2010 est.)

Nicaragua	2.343 million (2010 est.)

Niger	4.688 million (2007)

Nigeria	48.33 million (2010 est.)

Niue	663 (2001)

Norfolk Island	978 (2006)

Northern Mariana Islands	38,450 note: nearly 29,000 of these were foreign workers (2005 est.)

Norway	2.59 million (2010 est.)

Oman	968,800 note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national (2007)

Pakistan	55.77 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2010 est.)

Palau	9,777 (2005)

Panama	1.557 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2010 est.)

Papua New Guinea	3.809 million (2010 est.)

Paraguay	3.038 million (2010 est.)

Peru	15.68 million (mid-year 2010 est.)

Philippines	38.9 million (2010 est.)

Pitcairn Islands	15 able-bodied men (2004)

Poland	17 million (2010 est.)

Portugal	5.57 million (2010 est.)

Puerto Rico	1.479 million (2007)

Qatar	1.254 million (2010 est.)

Romania	9.35 million (2010 est.)

Russia	75.55 million (2010 est.)

Rwanda	4.446 million (2007)

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	2,486 note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis	18,170 (June 1995)

Saint Lucia	79,700 (2007)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon	3,450 (2005)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	57,520 (2007 est.)

Samoa	66,270 (2007 est.)

San Marino	22,950 (June 2010)

Sao Tome and Principe	52,490 (2007)

Saudi Arabia	7.337 million note: about 80% of the labor force is non-national (2010 est.)

Senegal	5.53 million (2010 est.)

Serbia	2.95 million (2010 est.)

Seychelles	39,560 (2006)

Sierra Leone	2.207 million (2007 est.)

Singapore	3.075 million (2010 est.)

Sint Maarten	23,200 (2008 est.)

Slovakia	2.673 million (2010 est.)

Slovenia	930,000 (2010 est.)

Solomon Islands	202,500 (2007)

Somalia	3.447 million (few skilled laborers) (2007)

South Africa	17.32 million economically active (2010 est.)

Spain	22.96 million (2010 est.)

Sri Lanka	8.1 million (2010 est.)

Sudan	11.92 million (2007 est.)

Suriname	165,600 (2007)

Svalbard	1,234 in Norwegian settlements (2003)

Swaziland	457,900 (2007)

Sweden	4.93 million (2010 est.)

Switzerland	4.62 million (2010)

Syria	5.527 million (2010 est.)

Taiwan	11.07 million (2010 est.)

Tajikistan	2.1 million (2009)

Tanzania	21.86 million (2010 est.)

Thailand	38.7 million (2010 est.)

Timor-Leste	414,200 (2007)

Togo	2.595 million (2007)

Tokelau	440 (2001)

Tonga	39,960 (2007)

Trinidad and Tobago	631,000 (2010 est.)

Tunisia	3.83 million (2010 est.)

Turkey	24.73 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2010 est.)

Turkmenistan	2.3 million (2008 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands	4,848 (1990 est.)

Tuvalu	3,615 (2004 est.)

Uganda	15.51 million (2010 est.)

Ukraine	22.06 million (2010 est.)

United Arab Emirates	3.908 million note: expatriates account for about 85% of the work force (2010 est.)

United Kingdom	31.45 million (2010 est.)

United States	154.9 million note: includes unemployed (2010 est.)

Uruguay	1.637 million (2010 est.)

Uzbekistan	16 million (2010 est.)

Vanuatu	115,900 (2007)

Venezuela	13.3 million (2010 est.)

Vietnam	46.21 million (2010 est.)

Virgin Islands	49,820 (2007 est.)

Wallis and Futuna	3,104 (2003)

West Bank	694,000 (2009)

Western Sahara	144,000 (2010 est.)

World	3.191 billion (2010 est.)

Yemen	6.832 million (2010 est.)

Zambia	5.524 million (2010 est.)

Zimbabwe	3.848 million (2010 est.)