The CIA World Factbook Edition 2005 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 2005 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2005 edition: 236
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

9.91 million (2004 est.)

Angola

5.41 million (2004 est.)

Benin

NA (1996)

Botswana

264,000 formal sector employees (2000)

Burkina Faso

5 million

note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)

Burundi

2.99 million (2002)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

Cameroon

6.68 million (2004 est.)

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

6.7 million (68% agricultural) (2004 est.)

Djibouti

282,000 (2000)

Egypt

20.71 million (2004 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

383,200 (2000)

Ethiopia

NA (2001 est.)

Gabon

650,000 (2004 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

400,000 (1996)

Ghana

10.24 million (2004 est.)

Guinea

3 million (1999)

Guinea-Bissau

480,000 (1999)

Kenya

11.4 million (2004 est.)

Lesotho

838,000 (2000)

Libya

1.59 million (2004 est.)

Madagascar

7.3 million (2000)

Malawi

4.5 million (2001 est.)

Mali

3.93 million (2001 est.)

Mauritania

786,000 (2001)

Mauritius

560,000 (2004 est.)

Mayotte

48,800 (2000)

Morocco

11.02 million (2004 est.)

Mozambique

9.2 million (2000 est.)

Namibia

840,000 (2004 est.)

Niger

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

Nigeria

55.67 million (2004 est.)

Reunion

309,900 (2000)

Rwanda

4.6 million (2000)

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

3,500

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

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

4.65 million (2004 est.)

Seychelles

30,900 (1996)

Sierra Leone

1.369 million (1981 est.)

Somalia

3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)

South Africa

16.63 million economically active (2004 est.)

Sudan

11 million (1996 est.)

Tanzania

19 million (2004 est.)

Togo

1.74 million (1996)

Tunisia

3.55 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)

Uganda

12.41 million (2004 est.)

Western Sahara

12,000

Zambia

4.63 million (2004 est.)

Zimbabwe

4.23 million (2004 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

24,500 (1999 est.)

Iceland

158,100 (2004 est.)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

11.8 million (2001 est.)

Armenia

1.4 million (2001)

Azerbaijan

5.09 million (2004 est.)

Bangladesh

65.49 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 (2004 est.)

Bhutan

note: massive lack of skilled labor

China

760.8 million (2003)

Georgia

2.1 million (2001 est.)

India

482.2 million (2004 est.)

Japan

66.97 million (2004 est.)

Kazakhstan

7.95 million (2004 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

9.6 million

Korea, South now South Korea

22.9 million (2004 est.)

Kyrgyzstan

2.7 million (2000)

Maldives

88,000 (2000)

Mongolia

1.488 million (2003)

Nepal

10 million

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

Pakistan

45.43 million

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2004 est.)

Russia

71.83 million (2004 est.)

Sri Lanka

7.26 million (2004 est.)

Tajikistan

3.187 million (2000)

Turkmenistan

2.32 million (2003 est.)

Uzbekistan

14.64 million (2004 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

6,049 (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda

30,000

Aruba

41,500 (1997 est.)

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 (2001 est.)

British Virgin Islands

12,770 (2004)

Cayman Islands

19,820 (1995)

Costa Rica

1.81 million (2004 est.)

Cuba

4.55 million

note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2004 est.)

Dominica

25,000 (1999 est.)

Dominican Republic

2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)

El Salvador

2.75 million (2004 est.)

Grenada

42,300 (1996)

Guadeloupe

125,900 (1997)

Guatemala

3.68 million (2004 est.)

Haiti

3.6 million

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

Honduras

2.47 million (2004 est.)

Jamaica

1.14 million (2004 est.)

Martinique

165,900 (1998)

Montserrat

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

Netherlands Antilles

89,000 (2000)

Nicaragua

1.93 million (2004 est.)

Panama

1.32 million

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2004 est.)

Puerto Rico

1.3 million (2000)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

18,170 (June 1995)

Saint Lucia

43,800 (2001 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

67,000 (1984 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

590,000 (2004 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

4,848 (1990 est.)

Virgin Islands

48,900 (2003 est.)

Europe

47 entries

Albania

1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2004 est.)

Andorra

33,000 (2001 est.)

Austria

3.45 million (2004 est.)

Belarus

4.305 million (31 December 2003)

Belgium

4.75 million (2004 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.026 million (2001)

Bulgaria

3.398 million (2004 est.)

Croatia

1.71 million (2004 est.)

Czech Republic now Czechia

5.25 million (2004 est.)

Denmark

2.87 million (2004 est.)

Estonia

660,000 (2004 est.)

European Union

215 million (various)

Faroe Islands

24,250 (October 2000)

Finland

2.66 million (2004 est.)

France

27.7 million (2004 est.)

Germany

42.63 million (2004 est.)

Gibraltar

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

Greece

4.4 million (2004 est.)

Guernsey

32,290 (2001)

Holy See (Vatican City)

Hungary

4.17 million (2004 est.)

Ireland

1.92 million (2004 est.)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

39,690 (2001)

Italy

24.27 million (2004 est.)

Jersey

52,790 (2004)

Latvia

1.17 million (2004 est.)

Liechtenstein

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

Lithuania

1.63 million (2004 est.)

Luxembourg

293,700 (of whom 105,000 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2004 est.)

Malta

160,000 (2002 est.)

Moldova

1.36 million (2004 est.)

Monaco

30,540 (January 1994)

Netherlands

7.53 million (2004 est.)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

855,000 (2004 est.)

Norway

2.38 million (2004 est.)

Poland

17.02 million (2004 est.)

Portugal

5.48 million (2004 est.)

Romania

9.66 million (2004 est.)

San Marino

18,500 (1999)

Serbia and Montenegro

3.2 million (2004 est.)

Slovakia

2.2 million (3rd quarter, 2004 est.)

Slovenia

870,000 (2004 est.)

Spain

19.33 million (2004 est.)

Sweden

4.46 million (2004 est.)

Switzerland

3.77 million (2004 est.)

Ukraine

21.11 million (2004 est.)

United Kingdom

29.78 million (2004 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

370,000

note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus:: 330,000, north Cyprus: 95,025 (2004 est.)

Gaza Strip

725,000 (2004)

Iran

23 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)

Iraq

6.7 million (2004 est.)

Israel

2.68 million (2004 est.)

Jordan

1.41 million (2004 est.)

Kuwait

1.42 million

note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2004 est.)

Lebanon

2.6 million

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

Oman

920,000 (2002 est.)

Qatar

140,000 (2004 est.)

Saudi Arabia

6.62 million

note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)

Syria

5.12 million (2004 est.)

Turkey now Turkiye

25.3 million

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003 est.)

United Arab Emirates

2.36 million

note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)

West Bank

364,000 (2004)

Yemen

5.98 million (2004 est.)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

37,470 (2000)

Canada

17.37 million (2004)

Mexico

34.73 million (2004 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

3,261 (1999)

United States

147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2004 est.)

Oceania

24 entries

American Samoa

14,000 (1996)

Australia

10.35 million (2004 est.)

Cook Islands

8,000 (1996)

Fiji

137,000 (1999)

French Polynesia

70,000 (1996)

Guam

60,000 (2000 est.)

Kiribati

7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)

Marshall Islands

28,700 (1996 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

New Caledonia

79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed) (1996)

New Zealand

2.05 million (2004 est.)

Niue

Norfolk Island

1,345

Northern Mariana Islands

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

Palau

9,845 (2000)

Papua New Guinea

3.32 million (2004 est.)

Pitcairn Islands

15 able-bodied men (2004)

Samoa

90,000 (2000 est.)

Solomon Islands

26,840 (1999)

Tokelau

Tonga

33,910 (1996)

Tuvalu

7,000 (2001 est.)

Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna

South America

14 entries

Argentina

15.04 million (2004 est.)

Bolivia

3.8 million (2004 est.)

Brazil

89 million (2004 est.)

Chile

6.2 million (2004 est.)

Colombia

20.7 million (2004 est.)

Ecuador

4.53 million (urban) (2004 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1,100 (est.)

French Guiana

58,800 (1997)

Guyana

418,000 (2001 est.)

Paraguay

2.66 million (2004 est.)

Peru

11 million (2004 est.)

Suriname

104,000 (2003)

Uruguay

1.56 million (2004 est.)

Venezuela

12.25 million (2004 est.)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

158,000

note: includes foreign workers and military personnel; temporary residents make up about 40% of labor force (2002 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

27.01 million (2004 est.)

East Timor now Timor-Leste

Vietnam

42.98 million (2004 est.)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2005, “Labor force”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/labor-force/2005.

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