The CIA World Factbook Edition 2007 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 2007 edition carries it in 233 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2007 edition: 233
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

3.001 billion (2005 est.)

Africa

55 entries

Algeria

9.31 million (2006 est.)

Angola

6.444 million (2006 est.)

Benin

3.211 million (1996)

Botswana

288,400 formal sector employees (2004)

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

120,600 (1990)

Cameroon

6.542 million (2006 est.)

Central African Republic

Chad

2.719 million (1993)

Comoros

144,500 (1996 est.)

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

15 million (2006 est.)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

Cote d'Ivoire

6.799 million (68% agricultural) (2006 est.)

Djibouti

282,000 (2000)

Egypt

21.8 million (2006 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

300,000 (2006)

Ethiopia

27.27 million (1999)

Gabon

574,000 (2006 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

400,000 (1996)

Ghana

11.07 million (2006 est.)

Guinea

3.7 million (2006 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

480,000 (1999)

Kenya

1.963 million (2006 est.)

Lesotho

838,000 (2000)

Libya

1.748 million (2006 est.)

Madagascar

7.3 million (2000)

Malawi

4.5 million (2001 est.)

Mali

3.93 million (2001 est.)

Mauritania

786,000 (2001)

Mauritius

541,000 (2006 est.)

Mayotte

44,560 (2002)

Morocco

10.86 million (2006 est.)

Mozambique

9.4 million (2006 est.)

Namibia

657,000 (2006 est.)

Niger

70,000 salaried workers, 60% of whom are employed in the public sector (2002 est.)

Nigeria

49.62 million (2006 est.)

Rwanda

4.6 million (2000)

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

2,486

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

Sao Tome and Principe

35,050 (1991)

Senegal

4.723 million (2006 est.)

Seychelles

30,900 (1996)

Sierra Leone

1.369 million (1981 est.)

Somalia

3.7 million (few skilled laborers) (1975)

South Africa

16.96 million economically active (2006 est.)

Sudan

7.415 million (1996 est.)

Tanzania

19.35 million (2006 est.)

Togo

1.302 million (1998)

Tunisia

3.503 million

note: shortage of skilled labor (2006 est.)

Uganda

13.58 million (2006 est.)

Western Sahara

12,000

Zambia

4.92 million (2006 est.)

Zimbabwe

3.99 million (2006 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

32,120 (2004)

Iceland

175,000 (2006 est.)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

15 million (2004 est.)

Armenia

1.2 million (November 2006)

Azerbaijan

5.165 million (2006 est.)

Bangladesh

68 million

note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $4.8 billion in 2005-06. (2006 est.)

Bhutan

note: major shortage of skilled labor

China

795.3 million (2006 est.)

Georgia

2.04 million (2004 est.)

India

506.9 million (2006 est.)

Japan

66.57 million (2006 est.)

Kazakhstan

8.029 million (2006 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

9.6 million (2002 est.)

Korea, South now South Korea

23.98 million (2006 est.)

Kyrgyzstan

2.7 million (2000)

Maldives

101,300 (2004)

Mongolia

1.577 million (2005)

Nepal

11.11 million

note: severe lack of skilled labor (2006 est.)

Pakistan

47.87 million

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2006 est.)

Russia

74.26 million (2006 est.)

Sri Lanka

7.602 million (2006 est.)

Tajikistan

3.7 million (2003)

Turkmenistan

2.32 million (2003 est.)

Uzbekistan

14.43 million (2006 est.)

Central America and the Caribbean

29 entries

Anguilla

6,049 (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda

30,000 (1991)

Aruba

41,500 (2004 est.)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

176,300 (2004)

Barbados

128,500 (2001 est.)

Belize

113,000

note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2006 est.)

British Virgin Islands

12,770 (2004)

Cayman Islands

23,450 (2004)

Costa Rica

1.874 million

note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2006 est.)

Cuba

4.847 million

note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2006 est.)

Dominica

25,000 (1999 est.)

Dominican Republic

3.896 million (2006 est.)

El Salvador

2.875 million (2006 est.)

Grenada

42,300 (1996)

Guatemala

3.86 million (2006 est.)

Haiti

3.6 million

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

Honduras

2.574 million (2006 est.)

Jamaica

1.249 million (2006 est.)

Montserrat

4,521

note: lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)

Netherlands Antilles

83,600 (2005)

Nicaragua

2.204 million (2006 est.)

Panama

1.439 million

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2006 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

41,680 (1991 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

625,000 (2006 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

4,848 (1990 est.)

Virgin Islands

43,980 (2004 est.)

Europe

48 entries

Albania

1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (September 2006 est.)

Andorra

42,420 (2005)

Austria

3.52 million (2006 est.)

Belarus

4.3 million (31 December 2005)

Belgium

4.9 million (2006 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.026 million (2001)

Bulgaria

3.416 million (2006 est.)

Croatia

1.72 million (2006 est.)

Czech Republic now Czechia

5.334 million (2006 est.)

Denmark

2.911 million (2006 est.)

Estonia

687,000 (2006 est.)

European Union

220.9 million (2006 est.)

Faroe Islands

24,250 (October 2000)

Finland

2.65 million (2006 est.)

France

27.75 million (2006 est.)

Germany

43.57 million (2006 est.)

Gibraltar

12,690 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (2001)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

880,000 (2006 est.)

2.961 million for Serbia (including Kosovo) (2002 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

352,000

note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2006 est.)

Cyprus

area under government control:: 380,000
area administered by Turkish Cypriots:: 95,025 (2006 est.)

Turkey now Turkiye

24.79 million

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2006 est.)

North America

5 entries

151.4 million (includes unemployed) (2006 est.)

Oceania

24 entries

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

Marshall Islands

14,680 (2000)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

37,410 (2000)

44,470 total indigenous labor force;
2,699 unemployed;
28,717 foreign workers (2000)

South America

13 entries

4.38 million (urban) (2006 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1,724 (est.) (1996)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

180,400 (2006 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

28.49 million (2006 est.)

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