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Country
Labor force
Afghanistan 11.8 million (2001 est.)
Albania 1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2004 est.)
Algeria 9.91 million (2004 est.)
American Samoa 14,000 (1996)
Andorra 33,000 (2001 est.)
Angola 5.41 million (2004 est.)
Anguilla 6,049 (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda 30,000
Argentina 15.04 million (2004 est.)
Armenia 1.4 million (2001)
Aruba 41,500 (1997 est.)
Australia 10.35 million (2004 est.)
Austria 3.45 million (2004 est.)
Azerbaijan 5.09 million (2004 est.)
Bahamas, The 156,000 (1999)
Bahrain 370,000
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
Bangladesh 65.49 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 (2004 est.)
Barbados 128,500 (2001 est.)
Belarus 4.305 million (31 December 2003)
Belgium 4.75 million (2004 est.)
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
Bolivia 3.8 million (2004 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.026 million (2001)
Botswana 264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
Brazil 89 million (2004 est.)
British Virgin Islands 12,770 (2004)
Brunei 158,000
note: includes foreign workers and military personnel; temporary residents make up about 40% of labor force (2002 est.)
Bulgaria 3.398 million (2004 est.)
Burkina Faso 5 million
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
Burma 27.01 million (2004 est.)
Burundi 2.99 million (2002)
Cambodia 7 million (2003 est.)
Cameroon 6.68 million (2004 est.)
Canada 17.37 million (2004)
Cape Verde NA
Cayman Islands 19,820 (1995)
Central African Republic NA
Chad NA
Chile 6.2 million (2004 est.)
China 760.8 million (2003)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA
Colombia 20.7 million (2004 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 1.81 million (2004 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire 6.7 million (68% agricultural) (2004 est.)
Croatia 1.71 million (2004 est.)
Cuba 4.55 million
note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2004 est.)
Cyprus Republic of Cyprus: 330,000, north Cyprus: 95,025 (2004 est.)
Czech Republic 5.25 million (2004 est.)
Denmark 2.87 million (2004 est.)
Djibouti 282,000 (2000)
Dominica 25,000 (1999 est.)
Dominican Republic 2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 4.53 million (urban) (2004 est.)
Egypt 20.71 million (2004 est.)
El Salvador 2.75 million (2004 est.)
Equatorial Guinea NA
Eritrea NA
Estonia 660,000 (2004 est.)
Ethiopia NA (2001 est.)
European Union 215 million (various)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 1,100 (est.)
Faroe Islands 24,250 (October 2000)
Fiji 137,000 (1999)
Finland 2.66 million (2004 est.)
France 27.7 million (2004 est.)
French Guiana 58,800 (1997)
French Polynesia 70,000 (1996)
Gabon 650,000 (2004 est.)
Gambia, The 400,000 (1996)
Gaza Strip 725,000 (2004)
Georgia 2.1 million (2001 est.)
Germany 42.63 million (2004 est.)
Ghana 10.24 million (2004 est.)
Gibraltar 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (1999)
Greece 4.4 million (2004 est.)
Greenland 24,500 (1999 est.)
Grenada 42,300 (1996)
Guadeloupe 125,900 (1997)
Guam 60,000 (2000 est.)
Guatemala 3.68 million (2004 est.)
Guernsey 32,290 (2001)
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 2.47 million (2004 est.)
Hong Kong 3.54 million (October 2004 est.)
Hungary 4.17 million (2004 est.)
Iceland 158,100 (2004 est.)
India 482.2 million (2004 est.)
Indonesia 111.5 million (2004 est.)
Iran 23 million
note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)
Iraq 6.7 million (2004 est.)
Ireland 1.92 million (2004 est.)
Israel 2.68 million (2004 est.)
Italy 24.27 million (2004 est.)
Jamaica 1.14 million (2004 est.)
Japan 66.97 million (2004 est.)
Jersey 52,790 (2004)
Jordan 1.41 million (2004 est.)
Kazakhstan 7.95 million (2004 est.)
Kenya 11.4 million (2004 est.)
Kiribati 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
Korea, North 9.6 million
Korea, South 22.9 million (2004 est.)
Kuwait 1.42 million
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2004 est.)
Kyrgyzstan 2.7 million (2000)
Laos 2.6 million (2001 est.)
Latvia 1.17 million (2004 est.)
Lebanon 2.6 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)
Lesotho 838,000 (2000)
Libya 1.59 million (2004 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 1.63 million (2004 est.)
Luxembourg 293,700 (of whom 105,000 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2004 est.)
Macau 231,500 (3rd Quarter, 2004)
Macedonia 855,000 (2004 est.)
Madagascar 7.3 million (2000)
Malawi 4.5 million (2001 est.)
Malaysia 10.49 million (2004 est.)
Maldives 88,000 (2000)
Mali 3.93 million (2001 est.)
Malta 160,000 (2002 est.)
Man, Isle of 39,690 (2001)
Marshall Islands 28,700 (1996 est.)
Martinique 165,900 (1998)
Mauritania 786,000 (2001)
Mauritius 560,000 (2004 est.)
Mayotte 48,800 (2000)
Mexico 34.73 million (2004 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of NA
Moldova 1.36 million (2004 est.)
Monaco 30,540 (January 1994)
Mongolia 1.488 million (2003)
Montserrat 4,521 (lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity) (2000 est.)
Morocco 11.02 million (2004 est.)
Mozambique 9.2 million (2000 est.)
Namibia 840,000 (2004 est.)
Nepal 10 million
note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
Netherlands 7.53 million (2004 est.)
Netherlands Antilles 89,000 (2000)
New Caledonia 79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed) (1996)
New Zealand 2.05 million (2004 est.)
Nicaragua 1.93 million (2004 est.)
Niger 70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)
Nigeria 55.67 million (2004 est.)
Niue NA
Norfolk Island 1,345
Northern Mariana Islands 6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (June 1995)
Norway 2.38 million (2004 est.)
Oman 920,000 (2002 est.)
Pakistan 45.43 million
note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2004 est.)
Palau 9,845 (2000)
Panama 1.32 million
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2004 est.)
Papua New Guinea 3.32 million (2004 est.)
Paraguay 2.66 million (2004 est.)
Peru 11 million (2004 est.)
Philippines 35.86 million (2004 est.)
Pitcairn Islands 15 able-bodied men (2004)
Poland 17.02 million (2004 est.)
Portugal 5.48 million (2004 est.)
Puerto Rico 1.3 million (2000)
Qatar 140,000 (2004 est.)
Reunion 309,900 (2000)
Romania 9.66 million (2004 est.)
Russia 71.83 million (2004 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 6.62 million
note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
Senegal 4.65 million (2004 est.)
Serbia and Montenegro 3.2 million (2004 est.)
Seychelles 30,900 (1996)
Sierra Leone 1.369 million (1981 est.)
Singapore 2.18 million (2004 est.)
Slovakia 2.2 million (3rd quarter, 2004 est.)
Slovenia 870,000 (2004 est.)
Solomon Islands 26,840 (1999)
Somalia 3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)
South Africa 16.63 million economically active (2004 est.)
Spain 19.33 million (2004 est.)
Sri Lanka 7.26 million (2004 est.)
Sudan 11 million (1996 est.)
Suriname 104,000 (2003)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 383,200 (2000)
Sweden 4.46 million (2004 est.)
Switzerland 3.77 million (2004 est.)
Syria 5.12 million (2004 est.)
Taiwan 10.22 million (2004 est.)
Tajikistan 3.187 million (2000)
Tanzania 19 million (2004 est.)
Thailand 36.43 million (November 2004 est.)
Togo 1.74 million (1996)
Tokelau NA
Tonga 33,910 (1996)
Trinidad and Tobago 590,000 (2004 est.)
Tunisia 3.55 million
note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)
Turkey 25.3 million
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003 est.)
Turkmenistan 2.32 million (2003 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 4,848 (1990 est.)
Tuvalu 7,000 (2001 est.)
Uganda 12.41 million (2004 est.)
Ukraine 21.11 million (2004 est.)
United Arab Emirates 2.36 million
note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
United Kingdom 29.78 million (2004 est.)
United States 147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2004 est.)
Uruguay 1.56 million (2004 est.)
Uzbekistan 14.64 million (2004 est.)
Vanuatu NA
Venezuela 12.25 million (2004 est.)
Vietnam 42.98 million (2004 est.)
Virgin Islands 48,900 (2003 est.)
Wallis and Futuna NA
West Bank 364,000 (2004)
Western Sahara 12,000
World NA
Yemen 5.98 million (2004 est.)
Zambia 4.63 million (2004 est.)
Zimbabwe 4.23 million (2004 est.)

This page was last updated on 28 July, 2005


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