The CIA World Factbook Edition 2011 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 2011 edition carries it in 236 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2011 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 entryAfrica
56 entriesBurkina Faso
6.668 million
country comparison to the world: 63
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
33.68 million (2010 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 18
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
1.514 million (2007)
- country comparison to the world: 128
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
2,486
country comparison to the world: 223
note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
22 entriesBangladesh
73.86 million
country comparison to the world: 8
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances were $10.9 billion in FY09/10 (2010 est.)
Korea, North now North Korea
12.2 million
country comparison to the world: 41
note: estimates vary widely (2009 est.)
Pakistan
55.77 million
country comparison to the world: 10
note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2010 est.)
Central America and the Caribbean
30 entriesBelize
120,500
country comparison to the world: 178
note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2008 est.)
Costa Rica
2.052 million
country comparison to the world: 119
note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2010 est.)
Cuba
5.147 million
country comparison to the world: 71
note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2010 est.)
Haiti
4.81 million
country comparison to the world: 76
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2010 est.)
Panama
1.485 million
country comparison to the world: 129
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2010 est.)
Europe
49 entriesLiechtenstein
32,880 (2009)
- country comparison to the world: 201
note: 51% of people at work in Liechtenstein commute daily from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany (2009)
Luxembourg
205,900
country comparison to the world: 168
note: 125,400 workers commute daily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2010 est.)
Monaco
44,000
country comparison to the world: 190
note: includes workers from all foreign countries (2005 est.)
Middle East
17 entriesBahrain
654,900
country comparison to the world: 151
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2010 est.)
Kuwait
2.158 million
country comparison to the world: 116
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force (2010 est.)
Lebanon
1.481 million
country comparison to the world: 130
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2007 est.)
Oman
968,800
country comparison to the world: 142
note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national (2007)
Saudi Arabia
7.337 million
country comparison to the world: 61
note: about 80% of the labor force is non-national (2010 est.)
Turkey now Turkiye
25.64 million
country comparison to the world: 24
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2010 est.)
United Arab Emirates
3.705 million
country comparison to the world: 91
note: expatriates account for about 85% of the work force (2010 est.)
North America
5 entriesOceania
24 entriesKiribati
- 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 216
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
16,360 (2008)
- country comparison to the world: 210
Northern Mariana Islands
38,450
country comparison to the world: 197
note: nearly 29,000 of these were foreign workers (2005 est.)
South America
13 entriesSoutheast Asia
16 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2011, “Labor force”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/labor-force/2011.