Labor force In 36 editions of 36.

2.24 billion (1992)

6.2 million (1992 est.)

2.783 million economically active

1.9 million (1987)

428,000 (1992)

NA (most adults are employed in subsistance agriculture; 52% of population is 15 years of age or older)

1.9 million (1983 est.)

102,000 (1985 est.)

NA

775,413 (1986 est.)

NA

140,000 (1982)

15 million (13% of the labor force is wage earners; 51% of the population is of working age)

79,100 wage earners

5.718 million

NA

15 million (1992 est.)

172,000 (1986 est.)

NA

probably less than 100,000

18 million

120,000 salaried

400,000 (1986 est.)

3.7 million

2.4 million (1983)

403,000 (est.)

9.2 million (includes unemployed); the total employed is 1,370,000 (14.8% of the labor force)

689,000 economically active

510,000 including 220,000 in the monetary economy

1 million (includes about 280,000 resident foreigners)

4.9 million (90% nonsalaried family workers engaged in subsistence agriculture; 175,000 wage earners)

428,000 wage earners

2.666 million (1986 est.)

• 465,000 (1981 est.); 45,000 wage earners (1980)

335,000

NA

7.4 million

NA

500,000

2.5 million wage earners (1982)

42.844 million

NA

3.6 million

2,516

• 21,096 (1981);
• most of population engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing;
• labor shortages on plantations and of skilled workers;
• 56% of population of working age (1983)

2.509 million (77% are engaged in subsistence farming; 175,000 wage earners)

27,700 (1985)

1.369 million (1981 est.)

2.2 million (very few are skilled laborers)

13.4 million economically active (1990)

6.5 million

732,200 wage earners

NA

2.25 million

4.5 million (est.)

12,000

2.455 million

3.1 million

22,800

127,900

NA

4.98 million

1.578 million

2.789 million

50.1 million

NA

567.4 million

2.763 million

314.751 million (1990)

63.33 million

7.356 million

9.615 million

20 million

1.836 million

66,000 (est.)

NA

8.5 million (1991 est.)

28.9 million

75 million (1993 est.)

6.6 million

1.95 million (1992)

1.573 million

8.234 million

2,780 (1984)

30,000

NA

127,400

120,900 (1991)

51,500

4,911 (1980)

8,061

868,300

4,620,800 economically active population (1988); 3,578,800 in state sector

25,000

2.3 million to 2.6 million

1.7 million (1982 est.)

36,000

120,000

2.5 million

2.3 million

1.3 million

1,062,100

100,000

5,100

89,000

1.086 million

921,000 (1992 est.)

1.17 million (1992)

20,000 (1981)

43,800

67,000 (1984 est.)

463,900

NA

45,500 (1988)

1.5 million (1987)

NA

3.47 million (1989)

4.887 million

4.126 million

1,026,254

4.3 million

1,509,489

5.389 million

2,553,900

750,000 (1992)

17,585

2.533 million

24.17 million

36.75 million

14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers)

4.083 million

NA

NA

5.4 million

1.37 million

25,864 (1981)

23.988 million

NA

1.407 million

19,905 of which 11,933 are foreigners; 6,885 commute from Austria and Switzerland to work each day

1.836 million

177,300 (one-third of labor force is foreign workers, mostly from Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany)

127,200

2.05 million (1992)

NA

6.7 million (1991)

507,324

2.004 million (1992)

17.329 million

4,605,700

10,945,700

4,300 (est.)

2,640,909

2.484 million

786,036

14.621 million

4.552 million (84% unionized,1992)

3.31 million (904,095 foreign workers, mostly Italian)

23.985 million

28.048 million

140,000

NA

15.4 million

4.4 million (1989)

1.9 million (1992)

600,000 (1992)

566,000 (1986)

650,000

430,000 (est.)

• 104,000 (85% non-Qatari in private sector) (1983)

5 million-6 million

2.951 million (1989)

20.8 million

580,000 (1986 est.)

NA

• no reliable estimates exist, most people are employed in agriculture and herding or as expatriate laborers;
• services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than half of the labor force

32,000

13.38 million

26.2 million (1990)

2,850 (1988)

129.525 million (includes armed forces and unemployed); civilian labor force 128.040 million) (1993)