The CIA World Factbook Edition 2009 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 2009 edition carries it in 234 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2009 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 entryAfrica
55 entriesBurkina Faso
6.668 million
country comparison to the world: 64
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2007)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
23.53 million (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 26
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
2,486
country comparison to the world: 217
note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
22 entriesBangladesh
70.86 million
country comparison to the world: 8
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $4.8 billion in 2005-06. (2008 est.)
Korea, North now North Korea
20 million
country comparison to the world: 31
note: estimates vary widely (2004 est.)
Pakistan
50.58 million
country comparison to the world: 11
note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2008 est.)
Sri Lanka
7.569 million
country comparison to the world: 59
note: excludes northern and eastern provinces (2008 est.)
Central America and the Caribbean
29 entriesBelize
122,300
country comparison to the world: 173
note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2008 est.)
Costa Rica
2.06 million
country comparison to the world: 120
note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2008 est.)
Cuba
4.962 million
country comparison to the world: 74
note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2008 est.)
Haiti
3.643 million
country comparison to the world: 93
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2007)
Panama
1.392 million
country comparison to the world: 131
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2008 est.)
Europe
49 entriesAlbania
- 1.103 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 137
Liechtenstein
32,440 of whom 13,900 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (2007)
country comparison to the world: 194
Luxembourg
206,000 of whom 125,400 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 163
Monaco
44,000
country comparison to the world: 185
note: includes workers from all foreign countries (2005 est.)
Middle East
17 entriesBahrain
557,000
country comparison to the world: 152
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2008 est.)
Kuwait
2.088 million
country comparison to the world: 119
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force (2008 est.)
Lebanon
1.481 million
country comparison to the world: 129
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2007 est.)
Oman
968,800
country comparison to the world: 139
note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national (2007)
Saudi Arabia
6.74 million
country comparison to the world: 63
note: about 80% of the labor force is non-national (2008 est.)
Turkey now Turkiye
24.06 million
country comparison to the world: 25
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2008 est.)
United Arab Emirates
3.266 million
country comparison to the world: 97
note: expatriates account for about 85% of the work force (2008 est.)
North America
5 entriesOceania
24 entriesKiribati
- 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 210
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
16,360 (2008)
- country comparison to the world: 204
Northern Mariana Islands
- 38,450 total indigenous labor force;
- 2,699 unemployed;
- 28,717 foreign workers (2005 est.)
country comparison to the world: 192
South America
13 entriesSoutheast Asia
16 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2009, “Labor force”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/labor-force/2009.