Labor force (2004)

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Informations about Labor force in 2004 year

	Afghanistan	11.8 million (2001 est.)
	Albania	1.35 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2003 est.)
	Algeria	9.6 million (2003)
	American Samoa	14,000 (1996)
	Andorra	33,000 (2001 est.)
	Angola	5.57 million (2003 est.)
	Anguilla	6,049 (2001)
	Antigua and Barbuda	30,000
	Argentina	14.92 million (2003)
	Armenia	1.4 million (2001)
	Aruba	41,500 (1997 est.)
	Australia	10.19 million (37256)
	Austria	3.425 million (2003)
	Azerbaijan	4.99 million (2003)
	Bahamas, The	156,000 (1999)
	Bahrain	350,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003 est.)
	Bangladesh	64.02 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 (2003)
	Barbados	128,500 (2001 est.)
	Belarus	4.8 million (2000 est.)
	Belgium	4.73 million (2003)
	Belize	90,000 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2001 est.)
	Benin	NA (1996)
	Bermuda	37,470 (2000)
	Bhutan	NA note: massive lack of skilled labor (1997 est.)
	Bolivia	4.1 million (2003)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.026 million (2001)
	Botswana	264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
	Brazil	82.59 million (2003 est.)
	British Virgin Islands	4,911 (1980)
	Brunei	143,400 note: includes foreign workers and military personnel; temporary residents make up about 40% of labor force (1999 est.)
	Bulgaria	3.333 million (2003 est.)
	Burkina Faso	5 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
	Burma	22.14 million (2003 est.)
	Burundi	2.99 million (2002)
	Cambodia	7 million (2003 est.)
	Cameroon	6.49 million NA (2003)
	Canada	17.04 million (2003 est.)
	Cape Verde	NA (1980)
	Cayman Islands	19,820 (1995)
	Central African Republic	NA (2000 est.)
	Chad	NA (2002)
	Chile	6 million (2003 est.)
	China	778.1 million (2003 est.)
	Christmas Island	NA
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA
	Colombia	20.34 million (2003 est.)
	Comoros	144,500 (1996 est.)
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	14.51 million (1993 est.)
	Congo, Republic of the	NA (2000 est.)
	Cook Islands	8,000 (1996)
	Costa Rica	1.758 million (2003)
	Cote d'Ivoire	6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)
	Croatia	1.69 million (2003)
	Cuba	4.58 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2003 est.)
	Cyprus	330,000 Republic of Cyprus: 306,000; north Cyprus: 95,025 (2003)
	Czech Republic	5.25 million (2003 est.)
	Denmark	2.863 million (2003 est.)
	Djibouti	282,000 (2000)
	Dominica	25,000 (1999 est.)
	Dominican Republic	2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)
	East Timor	NA
	Ecuador	4.36 million (urban) (2003)
	Egypt	20.19 million (2003 est.)
	El Salvador	2.62 million (2003)
	Equatorial Guinea	NA (October 2000)
	Eritrea	NA (1999)
	Estonia	654,000 (2003 est.)
	Ethiopia	NA (2001 est.)
	European Union	211.1 million
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	1,100 (est.)
	Faroe Islands	24,250 (October 2000)
	Fiji	137,000 (1999)
	Finland	2.599 million (2003 est.)
	France	27.39 million (2003 est.)
	French Guiana	58,800 (1997)
	French Polynesia	70,000 (1996)
	Gabon	610,000 (2003)
	Gambia, The	400,000 (1996)
	Gaza Strip	NA (1997)
	Georgia	2.1 million (2001 est.)
	Germany	42.63 million (2003)
	Ghana	10 million (2003 est.)
	Gibraltar	14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (1999)
	Greece	4.39 million (2003 est.)
	Greenland	24,500 (1999 est.)
	Grenada	42,300 (1996)
	Guadeloupe	125,900 (1997)
	Guam	60,000 (2000 est.)
	Guatemala	3.84 million (2003 est.)
	Guernsey	31,320 (2000)
	Guinea	3 million (1999)
	Guinea-Bissau	480,000 (1999)
	Guyana	418,000 (2001 est.)
	Haiti	3.6 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1995)
	Holy See (Vatican City)	NA
	Honduras	2.41 million (2003 est.)
	Hong Kong	3.5 million (2003 est.)
	Hungary	4.164 million (2003)
	Iceland	160,000 (2003)
	India	472 million (2003)
	Indonesia	105.7 million (2003)
	Iran	22.32 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)
	Iraq	7.8 million (2004 est.)
	Ireland	1.871 million (2003)
	Isle of Man	36,610 (1998)
	Israel	2.61 million (2003 est.)
	Italy	24.15 million (2003 est.)
	Jamaica	1.13 million (2003)
	Japan	66.66 million (2003)
	Jersey	57,050 (1996)
	Jordan	1.36 million (2003)
	Kazakhstan	7.634 million (2003)
	Kenya	11.45 million (2003 est.)
	Kiribati	7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
	Korea, North	9.6 million
	Korea, South	22.92 million (2003)
	Kuwait	1.38 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force. (2003 est.)
	Kyrgyzstan	2.7 million (2000)
	Laos	2.6 million (2001 est.)
	Latvia	1.18 million (2003 est.)
	Lebanon	1.5 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)
	Lesotho	838,000 (2000)
	Libya	1.51 million (2003 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	1.642 million (2003 est.)
	Luxembourg	200,000 (of whom 87,400 are foreign cross-border workers primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2003)
	Macau	214,000 (2002)
	Macedonia	860,000 (2003 est.)
	Madagascar	7.3 million (2000)
	Malawi	4.5 million (2001 est.)
	Malaysia	10.26 million (2003 est.)
	Maldives	88,000 (2000)
	Mali	3.93 million (2001 est.)
	Malta	160,000 (2002 est.)
	Marshall Islands	28,700 (1996 est.)
	Martinique	165,900 (1998)
	Mauritania	786,000 (2001)
	Mauritius	560,000 (2003)
	Mayotte	48,800 (2000)
	Mexico	34.11 million (2003)
	Micronesia, Federated States of	NA (2000 est.)
	Moldova	1.383 million (2003)
	Monaco	30,540 (January 1994)
	Mongolia	1.4 million (2001)
	Montserrat	4,521 ; note - lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
	Morocco	10.84 million (2003)
	Mozambique	9.2 million (2000 est.)
	Namibia	760,000 (2003)
	Nepal	10 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
	Netherlands	7.46 million (2003)
	Netherlands Antilles	89,000 (2000)
	New Caledonia	79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed, 1996)
	New Zealand	2.008 million (2003 est.)
	Nicaragua	1.91 million (2003)
	Niger	70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)
	Nigeria	54.36 million (2003 est.)
	Niue	NA (1998 est.)
	Norfolk Island	NA
	Northern Mariana Islands	6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (June 1995)
	Norway	2.38 million (2003 est.)
	Oman	920,000 (2002 est.)
	Pakistan	43.98 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2003)
	Palau	9,845 (2000)
	Panama	1.19 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2003 est.)
	Papua New Guinea	3.25 million (2003)
	Paraguay	2.15 million (2003 est.)
	Peru	8.63 million (2003 est.)
	Philippines	34.56 million (2003)
	Pitcairn Islands	12 able-bodied men (1997)
	Poland	16.92 million (2003 est.)
	Portugal	5.409 million (2003)
	Puerto Rico	1.3 million (2000)
	Qatar	140,000 (2003 est.)
	Reunion	309,900 (2000)
	Romania	9.28 million (2003 est.)
	Russia	71.68 million (2003 est.)
	Rwanda	4.6 million (2000)
	Saint Helena	3,500 note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	18,170 (June 1995)
	Saint Lucia	43,800 (2001 est.)
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	3,261 (1999)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	67,000 (1984 est.)
	Samoa	90,000 (2000 est.)
	San Marino	18,500 (1999)
	Sao Tome and Principe	NA
	Saudi Arabia	6.43 million note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003)
	Senegal	4.62 million NA (2003)
	Serbia and Montenegro	2.93 million (2003 est.)
	Seychelles	30,900 (1996)
	Sierra Leone	1.369 million (1981 est.)
	Singapore	2.2 million (2003)
	Slovakia	2.58 million (2003)
	Slovenia	875,000 (2003)
	Solomon Islands	26,840 (1999)
	Somalia	3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)
	South Africa	16.35 million economically active (2003)
	Spain	18.82 million (2003)
	Sri Lanka	7.17 million (2003)
	Sudan	11 million (1996 est.)
	Suriname	100,000
	Svalbard	NA
	Swaziland	383,200 (2000)
	Sweden	4.449 million (2003 est.)
	Switzerland	3.72 million (2003)
	Syria	4.97 million (2003 est.)
	Taiwan	10.08 million (2003)
	Tajikistan	3.187 million (2000)
	Tanzania	18.56 million (2003)
	Thailand	34.9 million (2003 est.)
	Togo	1.74 million (1996)
	Tokelau	NA
	Tonga	33,910 (1996)
	Trinidad and Tobago	590,000 (2003)
	Tunisia	3.461 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2003 est.)
	Turkey	23.79 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003)
	Turkmenistan	2.34 million (1996)
	Turks and Caicos Islands	4,848 (1990 est.)
	Tuvalu	7,000 (2001 est.)
	Uganda	12.09 million (2003 est.)
	Ukraine	21.29 million (2003)
	United Arab Emirates	2.16 million note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2003)
	United Kingdom	29.6 million (2003)
	United States	147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2003)
	Uruguay	1.56 million (2003)
	Uzbekistan	14.2 million (2003 est.)
	Vanuatu	NA
	Venezuela	11.38 million (2003)
	Vietnam	45.74 million (2003 est.)
	Virgin Islands	48,900 (2003 est.)
	Wallis and Futuna	NA
	West Bank	NA
	Western Sahara	12,000
	World	NA
	Yemen	5.79 million (2003 est.)
	Zambia	4.59 million (2003)
	Zimbabwe	4.17 million (2003 est.)