Labor force (2005)

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Informations about Labor force in 2005 year

	Afghanistan	11.8 million (2001 est.)
	Albania	1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (2004 est.)
	Algeria	9.91 million (2004 est.)
	American Samoa	14,000 (1996)
	Andorra	33,000 (2001 est.)
	Angola	5.41 million (2004 est.)
	Anguilla	6,049 (2001)
	Antigua and Barbuda	30,000
	Argentina	15.04 million (2004 est.)
	Armenia	1.4 million (2001)
	Aruba	41,500 (1997 est.)
	Australia	10.35 million (2004 est.)
	Austria	3.45 million (2004 est.)
	Azerbaijan	5.09 million (2004 est.)
	Bahamas, The	156,000 (1999)
	Bahrain	370,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
	Bangladesh	65.49 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 (2004 est.)
	Barbados	128,500 (2001 est.)
	Belarus	4.305 million (31 December 2003)
	Belgium	4.75 million (2004 est.)
	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
	Bolivia	3.8 million (2004 est.)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.026 million (2001)
	Botswana	264,000 formal sector employees (2000)
	Brazil	89 million (2004 est.)
	British Virgin Islands	12,770 (2004)
	Brunei	158,000 note: includes foreign workers and military personnel; temporary residents make up about 40% of labor force (2002 est.)
	Bulgaria	3.398 million (2004 est.)
	Burkina Faso	5 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
	Burma	27.01 million (2004 est.)
	Burundi	2.99 million (2002)
	Cambodia	7 million (2003 est.)
	Cameroon	6.68 million (2004 est.)
	Canada	17.37 million (2004)
	Cape Verde	NA
	Cayman Islands	19,820 (1995)
	Central African Republic	NA
	Chad	NA
	Chile	6.2 million (2004 est.)
	China	760.8 million (2003)
	Christmas Island	NA
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA
	Colombia	20.7 million (2004 est.)
	Comoros	144,500 (1996 est.)
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	14.51 million (1993 est.)
	Congo, Republic of the	NA
	Cook Islands	8,000 (1996)
	Costa Rica	1.81 million (2004 est.)
	Cote d'Ivoire	6.7 million (68% agricultural) (2004 est.)
	Croatia	1.71 million (2004 est.)
	Cuba	4.55 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2004 est.)
	Cyprus	Republic of Cyprus: 330,000, north Cyprus: 95,025 (2004 est.)
	Czech Republic	5.25 million (2004 est.)
	Denmark	2.87 million (2004 est.)
	Djibouti	282,000 (2000)
	Dominica	25,000 (1999 est.)
	Dominican Republic	2.3 million - 2.6 million (2000 est.)
	East Timor	NA
	Ecuador	4.53 million (urban) (2004 est.)
	Egypt	20.71 million (2004 est.)
	El Salvador	2.75 million (2004 est.)
	Equatorial Guinea	NA
	Eritrea	NA
	Estonia	660,000 (2004 est.)
	Ethiopia	NA (2001 est.)
	European Union	215 million (various)
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	1,100 (est.)
	Faroe Islands	24,250 (October 2000)
	Fiji	137,000 (1999)
	Finland	2.66 million (2004 est.)
	France	27.7 million (2004 est.)
	French Guiana	58,800 (1997)
	French Polynesia	70,000 (1996)
	Gabon	650,000 (2004 est.)
	Gambia, The	400,000 (1996)
	Gaza Strip	725,000 (2004)
	Georgia	2.1 million (2001 est.)
	Germany	42.63 million (2004 est.)
	Ghana	10.24 million (2004 est.)
	Gibraltar	14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (1999)
	Greece	4.4 million (2004 est.)
	Greenland	24,500 (1999 est.)
	Grenada	42,300 (1996)
	Guadeloupe	125,900 (1997)
	Guam	60,000 (2000 est.)
	Guatemala	3.68 million (2004 est.)
	Guernsey	32,290 (2001)
	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	2.47 million (2004 est.)
	Hong Kong	3.54 million (October 2004 est.)
	Hungary	4.17 million (2004 est.)
	Iceland	158,100 (2004 est.)
	India	482.2 million (2004 est.)
	Indonesia	111.5 million (2004 est.)
	Iran	23 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)
	Iraq	6.7 million (2004 est.)
	Ireland	1.92 million (2004 est.)
	Isle of Man	39,690 (2001)
	Israel	2.68 million (2004 est.)
	Italy	24.27 million (2004 est.)
	Jamaica	1.14 million (2004 est.)
	Japan	66.97 million (2004 est.)
	Jersey	52,790 (2004)
	Jordan	1.41 million (2004 est.)
	Kazakhstan	7.95 million (2004 est.)
	Kenya	11.4 million (2004 est.)
	Kiribati	7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
	Korea, North	9.6 million
	Korea, South	22.9 million (2004 est.)
	Kuwait	1.42 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2004 est.)
	Kyrgyzstan	2.7 million (2000)
	Laos	2.6 million (2001 est.)
	Latvia	1.17 million (2004 est.)
	Lebanon	2.6 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2001 est.)
	Lesotho	838,000 (2000)
	Libya	1.59 million (2004 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	1.63 million (2004 est.)
	Luxembourg	293,700 (of whom 105,000 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2004 est.)
	Macau	231,500 (3rd Quarter, 2004)
	Macedonia	855,000 (2004 est.)
	Madagascar	7.3 million (2000)
	Malawi	4.5 million (2001 est.)
	Malaysia	10.49 million (2004 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 (2004 est.)
	Mayotte	48,800 (2000)
	Mexico	34.73 million (2004 est.)
	Micronesia, Federated States of	NA
	Moldova	1.36 million (2004 est.)
	Monaco	30,540 (January 1994)
	Mongolia	1.488 million (2003)
	Montserrat	4,521 (lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity) (2000 est.)
	Morocco	11.02 million (2004 est.)
	Mozambique	9.2 million (2000 est.)
	Namibia	840,000 (2004 est.)
	Nepal	10 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)
	Netherlands	7.53 million (2004 est.)
	Netherlands Antilles	89,000 (2000)
	New Caledonia	79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed) (1996)
	New Zealand	2.05 million (2004 est.)
	Nicaragua	1.93 million (2004 est.)
	Niger	70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)
	Nigeria	55.67 million (2004 est.)
	Niue	NA
	Norfolk Island	1,345
	Northern Mariana Islands	6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (June 1995)
	Norway	2.38 million (2004 est.)
	Oman	920,000 (2002 est.)
	Pakistan	45.43 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2004 est.)
	Palau	9,845 (2000)
	Panama	1.32 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2004 est.)
	Papua New Guinea	3.32 million (2004 est.)
	Paraguay	2.66 million (2004 est.)
	Peru	11 million (2004 est.)
	Philippines	35.86 million (2004 est.)
	Pitcairn Islands	15 able-bodied men (2004)
	Poland	17.02 million (2004 est.)
	Portugal	5.48 million (2004 est.)
	Puerto Rico	1.3 million (2000)
	Qatar	140,000 (2004 est.)
	Reunion	309,900 (2000)
	Romania	9.66 million (2004 est.)
	Russia	71.83 million (2004 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	6.62 million note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
	Senegal	4.65 million (2004 est.)
	Serbia and Montenegro	3.2 million (2004 est.)
	Seychelles	30,900 (1996)
	Sierra Leone	1.369 million (1981 est.)
	Singapore	2.18 million (2004 est.)
	Slovakia	2.2 million (3rd quarter, 2004 est.)
	Slovenia	870,000 (2004 est.)
	Solomon Islands	26,840 (1999)
	Somalia	3.7 million (very few are skilled laborers)
	South Africa	16.63 million economically active (2004 est.)
	Spain	19.33 million (2004 est.)
	Sri Lanka	7.26 million (2004 est.)
	Sudan	11 million (1996 est.)
	Suriname	104,000 (2003)
	Svalbard	NA
	Swaziland	383,200 (2000)
	Sweden	4.46 million (2004 est.)
	Switzerland	3.77 million (2004 est.)
	Syria	5.12 million (2004 est.)
	Taiwan	10.22 million (2004 est.)
	Tajikistan	3.187 million (2000)
	Tanzania	19 million (2004 est.)
	Thailand	36.43 million (November 2004 est.)
	Togo	1.74 million (1996)
	Tokelau	NA
	Tonga	33,910 (1996)
	Trinidad and Tobago	590,000 (2004 est.)
	Tunisia	3.55 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2004 est.)
	Turkey	25.3 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2003 est.)
	Turkmenistan	2.32 million (2003 est.)
	Turks and Caicos Islands	4,848 (1990 est.)
	Tuvalu	7,000 (2001 est.)
	Uganda	12.41 million (2004 est.)
	Ukraine	21.11 million (2004 est.)
	United Arab Emirates	2.36 million note: 73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2004 est.)
	United Kingdom	29.78 million (2004 est.)
	United States	147.4 million (includes unemployed) (2004 est.)
	Uruguay	1.56 million (2004 est.)
	Uzbekistan	14.64 million (2004 est.)
	Vanuatu	NA
	Venezuela	12.25 million (2004 est.)
	Vietnam	42.98 million (2004 est.)
	Virgin Islands	48,900 (2003 est.)
	Wallis and Futuna	NA
	West Bank	364,000 (2004)
	Western Sahara	12,000
	World	NA
	Yemen	5.98 million (2004 est.)
	Zambia	4.63 million (2004 est.)
	Zimbabwe	4.23 million (2004 est.)