The CIA World Factbook Edition 2008 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 2008 edition carries it in 234 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2008 edition: 234
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

3.131 billion (2007 est.)

Africa

55 entries

Algeria

9.38 million (2007 est.)

Angola

7.148 million (2007 est.)

Benin

5.38 million (2007 est.)

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

6.674 million (2007 est.)

Central African Republic

1.857 million (2006)

Chad

3.747 million (2006)

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

6.907 million (68% agricultural) (2007 est.)

Djibouti

282,000 (2000)

Egypt

22.1 million (2007 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Swaziland now Eswatini

300,000 (2006)

Ethiopia

27.27 million (1999)

Gabon

582,000 (2007 est.)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

400,000 (1996)

Ghana

11.29 million (2007 est.)

Guinea

3.7 million (2006 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

480,000 (1999)

Kenya

11.85 million (2005 est.)

Lesotho

838,000 (2000 est.)

Libya

1.83 million (2007 est.)

Madagascar

7.3 million (2000)

Malawi

4.5 million (2001 est.)

Mali

5.4 million (2007 est.)

Mauritania

786,000 (2001)

Mauritius

574,000 (2007 est.)

Mayotte

44,560 (2002)

Morocco

11.39 million (2007 est.)

Mozambique

9.6 million (2007 est.)

Namibia

660,000 (2007 est.)

Niger

70,000 salaried workers, 60% of whom are employed in the public sector (1995)

Nigeria

50.13 million (2007 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

4.85 million (2007 est.)

Seychelles

39,560 (2006)

Sierra Leone

1.369 million (1981 est.)

Somalia

3.7 million (few skilled laborers) (1975)

South Africa

20.49 million economically active (2007 est.)

Sudan

7.415 million (1996 est.)

Tanzania

20.04 million (2007 est.)

Togo

1.302 million (1998)

Tunisia

3.593 million (2007 est.)

Uganda

14.02 million (2007 est.)

Western Sahara

12,000 (2005 est.)

Zambia

4.989 million (2007 est.)

Zimbabwe

4.032 million (2007 est.)

Arctic Region

3 entries

Greenland

32,120 (2004)

Iceland

181,000 (2007 est.)

Svalbard

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

15 million (2004 est.)

Armenia

1.2 million (2007 est.)

Azerbaijan

5.243 million (2007 est.)

Bangladesh

69.4 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. (2007 est.)

Bhutan

note: major shortage of skilled labor

China

800.7 million (2007 est.)

Georgia

2.02 million (2007 est.)

India

516.4 million (2007 est.)

Japan

66.69 million (2007 est.)

Kazakhstan

8.229 million (2007 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

20 million

note: estimates vary widely (2004 est.)

Korea, South now South Korea

24.22 million (2007 est.)

Kyrgyzstan

2.7 million (2000)

Maldives

101,300 (2004)

Mongolia

1.042 million (2006)

Nepal

11.11 million

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

Pakistan

48.23 million

note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2007 est.)

Russia

75.1 million (2007 est.)

Sri Lanka

7.489 million (2007 est.)

Tajikistan

2.1 million (2007)

Turkmenistan

2.089 million (2004 est.)

Uzbekistan

14.6 million (2007 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

181,900 (2006)

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

1.92 million

note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2007 est.)

Cuba

4.956 million

note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2007 est.)

Dominica

25,000 (2000 est.)

Dominican Republic

4.027 million (2007 est.)

El Salvador

2.913 million (2007 est.)

Grenada

42,300 (1996)

Guatemala

3.958 million (2007 est.)

Haiti

3.6 million

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

Honduras

2.779 million (2007 est.)

Jamaica

1.255 million (2007 est.)

Montserrat

4,521

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

Netherlands Antilles

83,600 (2005)

Nicaragua

2.262 million (2007 est.)

Panama

1.362 million

note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2007 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

622,000 (2007 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

4,848 (1990 est.)

Virgin Islands

43,980 (2004 est.)

Europe

49 entries

Albania

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

Andorra

42,420 (2005)

Austria

3.566 million (2007 est.)

Belarus

4.3 million (31 December 2005)

Belgium

4.94 million (2007 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1.026 million (2001)

Bulgaria

2.593 million (2007 est.)

Croatia

1.749 million (2007 est.)

Czech Republic now Czechia

5.36 million (2007 est.)

Denmark

2.86 million (2007 est.)

Estonia

687,000 (2007 est.)

European Union

222.7 million (2006 est.)

Faroe Islands

24,250 (October 2000)

Finland

2.675 million (2007 est.)

France

27.91 million (2007 est.)

Germany

43.54 million (2007 est.)

Gibraltar

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

Macedonia now North Macedonia

890,000 (2007 est.)

Middle East

17 entries

Turkey now Turkiye

23.53 million

note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2007 est.)

North America

5 entries

153.1 million (includes unemployed) (2007 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

4.51 million (urban) (2007 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1,724 (est.) (1996)

Southeast Asia

16 entries

Brunei

180,400 (2006 est.)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

29.26 million (2007 est.)

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