The CIA World Factbook Edition 2002 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 2002 edition carries it in 235 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2002 edition: 235
the first edition with it: 1990
the latest edition with it: 2025

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

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Entries with Labor force in each edition

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World

1 entry

World

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

9.4 million (2001 est.)

Angola

5 million (1997 est.)

Benin

Botswana

264,000 formal sector employees (2000)

Burkina Faso

5 million (1999)

note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (1999)

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

68% agricultural (2000 est.)

Djibouti

282,000

Egypt

20.6 million (2001 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

600,000 600,000

Gambia, The now The Gambia

400,000 400,000

Ghana

9 million (2000 est.)

Guinea

3 million (1999) (1999)

Guinea-Bissau

480,000

Kenya

10 million (2001 est.)

Lesotho

700,000 economically active

Libya

1.5 million (2000 est.)

Madagascar

7 million (1999) (1999)

Malawi

4.5 million (2001 est.)

Mali

3.93 million (2001 est.)

Mauritania

786,000 (2001) (2001)

Mauritius

514,000 (1995) (1995)

Mayotte

Morocco

11 million (1999) (1999)

Mozambique

7.4 million (1997 est.)

Namibia

500,000

Niger

70,000 receive regular wages or salaries

Nigeria

66 million (1999 est.)

Reunion

261,000 (1995) (1995)

Rwanda

3.6 million

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

3,500

note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

30,900 (1996) (1996)

Sierra Leone

1.369 million

note: only about 65,000 wage earners (1985) (1981 est.)

Somalia

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

South Africa

17 million economically active (2000)

Sudan

11 million (1996 est.)

Tanzania

13.495 million

Togo

1.74 million (1996) (1996)

Tunisia

2.69 million

note: shortage of skilled labor

Uganda

12 million (2001 est.)

Western Sahara

12,000

Zambia

3.4 million

Zimbabwe

5.5 million (2000 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

24,500 (1999 est.)

Iceland

159,000 (2000)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

10 million (2000 est.)

Armenia

1.4 million (2001)

Azerbaijan

3.7 million (1997) (2001)

Bangladesh

64.1 million (1998)

note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 (1998)

Bhutan

note: massive lack of skilled labor

China

706 million (2000 est.)

Georgia

2.1 million (2001 est.)

India

406 million (1999) (1999)

Japan

67.7 million (December 2000 )

Kazakhstan

8.4 million (1999)

Korea, North now North Korea

9.6 million

Korea, South now South Korea

22 million (2001)

Kyrgyzstan

2.7 million (2000)

Maldives

67,000 (1995) (1995)

Mongolia

1.4 million (2000)

Nepal

10 million

note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)

Pakistan

40.4 million

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2000)

Russia

71.3 million (2001 est.)

Sri Lanka

6.6 million (1998)

Tajikistan

3.187 million (2000)

Turkmenistan

2.34 million (1996) (1996)

Uzbekistan

11.9 million (1998 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

6,735 (1999) (1999)

Antigua and Barbuda

30,000

Aruba

41,501

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

156,000 (1999)

Barbados

128,500 (2001 est.)

Belize

90,000

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

1.9 million (1999) (1999)

Cuba

4.3 million

note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (1999) (2000 est.)

Dominica

25,000

Dominican Republic

2.3 million - 2.6 million

El Salvador

2.35 million (1999) (1999)

Grenada

42,300 (1996) (1996)

Guadeloupe

125,900 (1997) (1997)

Guatemala

4.2 million (1999 est.)

Haiti

3.6 million (1995)

note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2001) (1995)

Honduras

2.3 million (1997 est.)

Jamaica

1.13 million (1998) (1998)

Martinique

170,000 (1997) (1997)

Montserrat

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

Netherlands Antilles

89,000

Nicaragua

1.7 million (1999) (1999)

Panama

1.1 million

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2000 est.)

Puerto Rico

1.3 million (2000) (2000)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

18,172 (June 1995)

Saint Lucia

43,800

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

67,000 (1984 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

564,000 (2000) (2000)

Turks and Caicos Islands

4,848 (1990 est.)

Virgin Islands

48,356

Europe

46 entries

Albania

1.283 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed) (2000 est.)

Andorra

33,000 (2001 est.)

Austria

4.3 million (2001)

Belarus

4.8 million (2000)

Belgium

4.44 million (2001)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.026 million

Bulgaria

3.83 million (2000 est.)

Croatia

1.7 million (2001)

Czech Republic now Czechia

5.203 million (1999 est.)

Denmark

2.856 million (2000 est.)

Estonia

608,600 (2001 est.)

Faroe Islands

24,250 (October 2000 )

Finland

2.6 million (2000 est.)

France

26.6 million (2001 est.)

Germany

41.9 million (2001)

Gibraltar

14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers)

Greece

4.32 million (1999 est.)

Guernsey

31,322 (2000)

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

4.2 million (1997) (1997)

Ireland

1.8 million (2001)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

36,610 (1998)

Italy

23.6 million (2001 est.)

Jersey

57,050 (1996) (1996)

1.7 million (1998) (1998)

Monaco

30,540 (January 1994)

Netherlands

7.2 million (2000)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia

1.1 million (2000 est.)

18,500 (1999) (1999)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

295,000

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

Cyprus

Greek Cypriot area:: 291,000; Turkish Cypriot area: 86,300 (2000)

4.4 million (1989) (1989)

Turkey now Turkiye

23.8 million (2001 3rd quarter)

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (1999)

North America

5 entries

39.8 million (2000) (2000)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

3,000 (1997) (1997)

United States

141.8 million (includes unemployed) (2002)

Oceania

24 entries

70,000 (1996) (1996)

Guam

60,000 (2000 est.)

Kiribati

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

Marshall Islands

28,698

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

58,800 (1997) (1997)

1.2 million (2001) (2001)

Venezuela

9.9 million (1999) (1999)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

143,400 (1999 est.); note - includes foreign workers and military personnel

note: temporary residents make up 41% of labor force (1991) (1999 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

23.7 million (1999 est.)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

Vietnam

38.2 million (1998 est.)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2002, “Labor force”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/labor-force/2002.

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