The CIA World Factbook Edition 1999 Economy

Labor force In 36 editions of 36.

Labor force was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1999 edition carries it in 234 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1999 edition: 234
the first edition with it: 1990
the latest edition with it: 2025

Published as “Labor force” (1990 to 2025).

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World

1 entry

World

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

7.8 million (1996 est.)

Angola

5 million (1997 est.)

Benin

Botswana

235,000 formal sector employees (1995)

Burkina Faso

4.679 million (persons 10 years old and over, according to a sample survey taken in 1991)

note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment

Burundi

1.9 million

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

144,500 (1996 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

14.51 million (1993 est.)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

Cote d'Ivoire

Djibouti

282,000

Egypt

17.4 million (1998 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia, The now The Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

2.4 million (1983)

Guinea-Bissau

480,000

Kenya

9.2 million (1998 est.)

Lesotho

689,000 economically active

Libya

1 million

Madagascar

7 million (1995)

Malawi

3.5 million

Mali

Mauritania

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

Mauritius

514,000 (1995)

Mayotte

Morocco

11 million (1997 est.)

Mozambique

Namibia

500,000

Niger

70,000 receive regular wages or salaries

Nigeria

42.844 million

Reunion

261,000 (1995)

Rwanda

3.6 million

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

2,416 (1991 est.)

note: a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

26,000 (1996)

Sierra Leone

1.369 million (1981 est.)

note: only about 65,000 wage earners (1985)

Somalia

3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)(1993 est.)

South Africa

15 million economically active (1997)

Sudan

11 million (1996 est.)

note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment (1983 est.)

Tanzania

13.495 million

Togo

1.538 million (1993 est.)

Tunisia

3.3 million (1995 est.)

note: shortage of skilled labor

Uganda

8.361 million (1993 est.)

Western Sahara

12,000

Zambia

3.4 million

Zimbabwe

5 million (1997 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

24,500 (1995 est.)

Iceland

130,000 (1998 est.)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

7.1 million

Armenia

1.6 million (1997)

Azerbaijan

2.9 million (1997)

Bangladesh

56 million

note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, and Oman (1996)

Bhutan

note: massive lack of skilled labor

China

696 million (1997 est.)

Georgia

3.08 million (1997)

India

Japan

67.72 million (November 1998)

Kazakhstan

8.8 million (1997)

Korea, North now North Korea

9.615 million

Korea, South now South Korea

20 million

Kyrgyzstan

1.7 million

Maldives

56,435 (1990 est.)

Mongolia

1.115 million (mid-1993 est.)

Nepal

10 million (1996 est.)

note: severe lack of skilled labor

Pakistan

37.8 million (1998)

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor

Russia

66 million (1997)

Sri Lanka

6.2 million (1997)

Tajikistan

1.9 million (1996)

Turkmenistan

2.34 million (1996)

Uzbekistan

11.9 million (1998 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

4,400 (1992)

Antigua and Barbuda

30,000

Aruba

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

148,000 (1996)

Barbados

136,000 (1998 est.)

Belize

71,000

note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (1997 est.)

British Virgin Islands

4,911 (1980)

Cayman Islands

19,820 (1995)

Costa Rica

868,300

Cuba

4.5 million economically active population (1996 est.)

note: state sector 76%, non-state sector 24% (1996 est.)

Dominica

25,000

Dominican Republic

2.3 million to 2.6 million

El Salvador

2.26 million (1997 est.)

Grenada

36,000

Guadeloupe

128,000

Guatemala

3.32 million (1997 est.)

Haiti

3.6 million (1995)

note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1998)

Honduras

1.3 million (1997 est.)

Jamaica

1.14 million (1996)

Martinique

160,000

Montserrat

4,521 (1992); note--later substantially lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity

Netherlands Antilles

89,000

Nicaragua

1.5 million

Panama

1.044 million (1997 est.)

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor

Puerto Rico

1.3 million (1996)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

18,172 (June 1995)

Saint Lucia

43,800

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

67,000 (1984 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

541,000 (1997 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

4,848 (1990 est.)

Virgin Islands

47,443 (1990 est.)

Europe

46 entries

Albania

1.692 million (1994 est.) (including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed)

Andorra

Austria

3.7 million (1998)

Belarus

4.3 million (1998)

Belgium

4.283 million (1997)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1,026,254

Bulgaria

3.57 million (1996 est.)

Croatia

1.63 million (1998)

Czech Republic now Czechia

3.655 million (1998)

Denmark

2,895,950

Estonia

717,000 (1997 est.)

Faroe Islands

20,345 (1995 est.)

Finland

2.533 million

France

25.4 million

Germany

38.2 million (1998)

Gibraltar

14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers)

Greece

4.28 million (1998)

Guernsey

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

4.2 million (1997)

Ireland

1.52 million (1997 est.)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

33,577 (1996)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

591,773 (June 1994)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

150,000 (1997 est.)

note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.)

Cyprus

Greek Cypriot area:: 299,700; Turkish Cypriot area: 76,500 (1996)

Turkey now Turkiye

22.7 million (April 1998)

note: about 1.5 million Turks work abroad (1994)

North America

5 entries

137.7 million (includes unemployed) (1998)

Oceania

24 entries

118,744 (of which 70,044 are employed) (1988)

Guam

65,660 (1995)

Kiribati

7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (1985 est.)

Marshall Islands

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

6,006 total indigenous labor force;
2,699 unemployed;
28,717 foreign workers (1995)

South America

14 entries

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

144,000 (1995 est.); note--includes foreign workers and military personnel

note: temporary residents make up 41% of labor force (1991)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

18.8 million (FY95/96 est.)

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