Labor force In 36 editions of 36.

NA

9.4 million (2001 est.)

5 million (1997 est.)

NA

264,000 formal sector employees (2000)

5 million

note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2002)

3.7 million (2000)

NA

NA

NA

NA

144,500 (1996 est.)

14.51 million (1993 est.)

NA

68% agricultural (2000 est.)

282,000

20.6 million (2001 est.)

NA

NA

383,200 (2000)

NA

600,000

400,000

9 million (2000 est.)

3 million (1999)

480,000

10 million (2001 est.)

838,000

1.5 million (2000 est.)

7.3 million (2000)

4.5 million (2001 est.)

3.93 million (2001 est.)

786,000 (2001)

514,000 (1995)

48,800 (2000)

11 million (1999)

9.2 million (2000 est.)

725,000 (2000)

70,000 receive regular wages or salaries

66 million (1999 est.)

309,900 (2000)

4.6 million (2000)

3,500

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

NA

NA

30,900 (1996)

1.369 million (1981 est.)

3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)

17 million economically active

11 million (1996 est.)

13.495 million

1.74 million (1996)

2.69 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2001 est.)

12 million (2001 est.)

12,000

4.29 million (2000)

5.8 million (2000 est.)

24,500 (1999 est.)

159,000 (2000)

NA

10 million (2000 est.)

1.4 million (2001)

3.7 million (2001)

64.1 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 (1998)

NA

note: massive lack of skilled labor

744 million (2001 est.)

2.1 million (2001 est.)

406 million (1999)

67.7 million (December 2001)

8.4 million (1999)

9.6 million

22 million (2001)

2.7 million (2000)

88,000 (2000)

1.4 million (2001)

10 million

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

40.4 million

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

71.8 million (2002 est.)

6.6 million (1998)

3.187 million (2000)

2.34 million (1996)

11.9 million (1998 est.)

6,049 (2001)

30,000

41,501 (1997 est.)

156,000 (1999)

128,500 (2001 est.)

90,000

note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel

4,911 (1980)

19,820 (1995)

1.9 million (1999)

4.3 million

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

25,000

2.3 million - 2.6 million

2.35 million (1999)

42,300 (1996)

125,900 (1997)

4.2 million (1999 est.)

3.6 million

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

2.3 million (1997 est.)

1.13 million (1998)

165,900 (1998)

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

89,000

1.7 million (1999)

1.1 million

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

1.3 million (2000)

18,172 (June 1995)

43,800

67,000 (1984 est.)

564,000 (2000)

4,848 (1990 est.)

49,000 (2002 est.)

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

33,000 (2001 est.)

4.3 million (2001)

4.8 million (2000)

4.44 million (2001)

1.026 million

3.83 million (2000 est.)

1.7 million (2001)

5.203 million (1999 est.)

2.856 million (2000 est.)

608,600 (2001 est.)

24,250 (October 2000)

2.6 million (2000 est.)

26.6 million (2001 est.)

41.9 million (2001)

14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers)

4.37 million (2002 est.)

31,322 (2000)

NA

4.2 million (1997)

1.8 million (2001)

36,610 (1998)

23.6 million (2001 est.)

57,050 (1996)

1.1 million (2001 est.)

29,000 of which 19,000 are foreigners; 13,000 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (37256)

1.5 million (2001 est.)

262,300 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2000)

160,000 (2002 est.)

1.7 million (1998)

30,540 (January 1994)

7.2 million (2000)

1.1 million (2000 est.)

2.4 million (2000 est.)

17.6 million (2000 est.)

5.1 million (2000)

9.9 million (1999 est.)

18,500 (1999)

3 million (2001 est.)

3 million (1999)

857,400

17.1 million (2001)

4.4 million (2000 est.)

4 million (2001)

22.8 million (yearend 1997)

29.7 million (2001)

295,000

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

Greek Cypriot area:

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

NA

21 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (1998)

6.5 million (2002 est.)

2.5 million (2002 est.)

1.36 million (2002)

1.3 million

note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force. (1998 est.)

1.5 million

note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)

920,000 (2002 est.)

280,122 (1997 est.)

7 million

note: 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national

5.2 million (2000 est.)

23.8 million

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2001 3rd quarter)

1.6 million (2000 est.)

note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 2002 est.) (2000 est.)

NA