Labor force In 36 editions of 36.

NA

9.6 million (2003)

5.57 million (2003 est.)

• NA (1996)

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 (2003)

2.99 million (2002)

• NA (1980)

6.49 million NA (2003)

• NA (2000 est.)

• NA (2002)

144,500 (1996 est.)

14.51 million (1993 est.)

• NA (2000 est.)

• 6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)

282,000 (2000)

20.19 million (2003 est.)

• NA (October 2000)

• NA (1999)

383,200 (2000)

• NA (2001 est.)

610,000 (2003)

400,000 (1996)

10 million (2003 est.)

3 million (1999)

480,000 (1999)

11.45 million (2003 est.)

838,000 (2000)

1.51 million (2003 est.)

7.3 million (2000)

4.5 million (2001 est.)

3.93 million (2001 est.)

786,000 (2001)

560,000 (2003)

48,800 (2000)

10.84 million (2003)

9.2 million (2000 est.)

760,000 (2003)

• 70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)

54.36 million (2003 est.)

309,900 (2000)

4.6 million (2000)

3,500

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

NA

4.62 million NA (2003)

30,900 (1996)

1.369 million (1981 est.)

3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)

16.35 million economically active (2003)

11 million (1996 est.)

18.56 million (2003)

1.74 million (1996)

3.461 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)

12.09 million (2003 est.)

12,000

4.59 million (2003)

4.17 million (2003 est.)

24,500 (1999 est.)

160,000 (2003)

NA

11.8 million (2001 est.)

1.4 million (2001)

4.99 million (2003)

64.02 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 (2003)

NA

note: massive lack of skilled labor (1997 est.)

778.1 million (2003 est.)

2.1 million (2001 est.)

472 million (2003)

66.66 million (2003)

7.634 million (2003)

9.6 million

22.92 million (2003)

2.7 million (2000)

88,000 (2000)

1.4 million (2001)

10 million

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

43.98 million

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2003)

71.68 million (2003 est.)

7.17 million (2003)

3.187 million (2000)

2.34 million (1996)

14.2 million (2003 est.)

6,049 (2001)

30,000

41,500 (1997 est.)

156,000 (1999)

128,500 (2001 est.)

90,000

note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2001 est.)

4,911 (1980)

19,820 (1995)

1.758 million (2003)

4.58 million

note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2003 est.)

25,000 (1999 est.)

• 2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)

2.62 million (2003)

42,300 (1996)

125,900 (1997)

3.84 million (2003 est.)

3.6 million

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

2.41 million (2003 est.)

1.13 million (2003)

165,900 (1998)

• 4,521 ; note - lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)

89,000 (2000)

1.91 million (2003)

1.19 million

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2003 est.)

1.3 million (2000)

18,170 (June 1995)

43,800 (2001 est.)

67,000 (1984 est.)

590,000 (2003)

4,848 (1990 est.)

48,900 (2003 est.)

• 1.35 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2003 est.)

33,000 (2001 est.)

3.425 million (2003)

4.8 million (2000 est.)

4.73 million (2003)

1.026 million (2001)

3.333 million (2003 est.)

1.69 million (2003)

5.25 million (2003 est.)

2.863 million (2003 est.)

654,000 (2003 est.)

211.1 million

24,250 (October 2000)

2.599 million (2003 est.)

27.39 million (2003 est.)

42.63 million (2003)

• 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (1999)

4.39 million (2003 est.)

31,320 (2000)

NA

4.164 million (2003)

1.871 million (2003)

36,610 (1998)

24.15 million (2003 est.)

57,050 (1996)

1.18 million (2003 est.)

29,000 of whom 19,000 are foreigners; 13,000 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (31 December 2001)

1.642 million (2003 est.)

200,000 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2003)

160,000 (2002 est.)

1.383 million (2003)

30,540 (January 1994)

7.46 million (2003)

860,000 (2003 est.)

2.38 million (2003 est.)

16.92 million (2003 est.)

5.409 million (2003)

9.28 million (2003 est.)

18,500 (1999)

2.93 million (2003 est.)

2.58 million (2003)

875,000 (2003)

18.82 million (2003)

4.449 million (2003 est.)

3.72 million (2003)

21.29 million (2003)

29.6 million (2003)

350,000

note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003 est.)

• 330,000 Republic of Cyprus: 306,000; north Cyprus: 95,025 (2003)

• NA (1997)

22.32 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)

7.8 million (2004 est.)

2.61 million (2003 est.)

1.36 million (2003)

1.38 million

note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force. (2003 est.)

1.5 million

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

920,000 (2002 est.)

140,000 (2003 est.)

6.43 million

note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003)

4.97 million (2003 est.)

23.79 million

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003)