Labor force (2008)

Labor force - select year:
- Labor force (2001) (compare)
- Labor force (2002) (compare)
- Labor force (2003) (compare)
- Labor force (2004) (compare)
- Labor force (2005) (compare)
- Labor force (2006) (compare)
- Labor force (2007) (compare)

Informations about Labor force in 2008 year

	Afghanistan	15 million (2004 est.)
	Albania	1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (September 2006 est.)
	Algeria	9.38 million (2007 est.)
	American Samoa	17,630 (2005)
	Andorra	42,420 (2005)
	Angola	6.573 million (2007 est.)
	Anguilla	6,049 (2001)
	Antigua and Barbuda	30,000 (1991)
	Argentina	16.1 million note: urban areas only (2007 est.)
	Armenia	1.2 million (2007 est.)
	Aruba	41,500 (2004 est.)
	Australia	10.9 million (2007 est.)
	Austria	3.56 million (2007 est.)
	Azerbaijan	5.243 million (2007 est.)
	Bahamas, The	181,900 (2006)
	Bahrain	363,000 note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (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.)
	Barbados	128,500 (2001 est.)
	Belarus	4.3 million (31 December 2005)
	Belgium	5.03 million (2007 est.)
	Belize	113,000 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2006 est.)
	Benin	5.38 million (2007 est.)
	Bermuda	38,360 (2004)
	Bhutan	NA note: major shortage of skilled labor
	Bolivia	4.793 million (2006 est.)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.026 million (2001)
	Botswana	288,400 formal sector employees (2004)
	Brazil	99.47 million (2007 est.)
	British Virgin Islands	12,770 (2004)
	Brunei	180,400 (2006 est.)
	Bulgaria	3.44 million (2007 est.)
	Burkina Faso	5 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
	Burma	29.26 million (2007 est.)
	Burundi	2.99 million (2002)
	Cambodia	7 million (2003 est.)
	Cameroon	6.68 million (2007 est.)
	Canada	17.9 million (2007 est.)
	Cape Verde	120,600 (1990)
	Cayman Islands	23,450 (2004)
	Central African Republic	1.857 million (2006)
	Chad	3.747 million (2006)
	Chile	6.97 million (2007 est.)
	China	803.3 million (2007 est.)
	Christmas Island	NA
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	NA
	Colombia	20.65 million (2007 est.)
	Comoros	144,500 (1996 est.)
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	15 million (2006 est.)
	Congo, Republic of the	NA
	Cook Islands	6,820 (2001)
	Costa Rica	1.946 million note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2007 est.)
	Cote d'Ivoire	6.907 million (68% agricultural) (2007 est.)
	Croatia	1.714 million (2007 est.)
	Cuba	4.853 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2007 est.)
	Cyprus	area under government control: 391,000 area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 95,025 (2007 est.)
	Czech Republic	5.35 million (2007 est.)
	Denmark	2.9 million (2007 est.)
	Djibouti	282,000 (2000)
	Dominica	25,000 (2000 est.)
	Dominican Republic	3.986 million (2007 est.)
	Ecuador	4.55 million (urban) (2007 est.)
	Egypt	22.49 million (2007 est.)
	El Salvador	2.87 million (2007 est.)
	Equatorial Guinea	NA
	Eritrea	NA
	Estonia	688,000 (2007 est.)
	Ethiopia	27.27 million (1999)
	European Union	222.4 million (2006 est.)
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	1,724 (est.) (1996)
	Faroe Islands	24,250 (October 2000)
	Fiji	137,000 (1999)
	Finland	2.68 million (2007 est.)
	France	27.76 million (2007 est.)
	French Polynesia	65,930 (December 2005)
	Gabon	582,000 (2007 est.)
	Gambia, The	400,000 (1996)
	Gaza Strip	267,000 (2006)
	Georgia	2.02 million (2007 est.)
	Germany	43.63 million (2007 est.)
	Ghana	11.29 million (2007 est.)
	Gibraltar	12,690 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (2001)
	Greece	4.94 million (2007 est.)
	Greenland	32,120 (2004)
	Grenada	42,300 (1996)
	Guam	62,050 (2002 est.)
	Guatemala	3.958 million (2007 est.)
	Guernsey	31,470 (March 2006)
	Guinea	3.7 million (2006 est.)
	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	2.812 million (2007 est.)
	Hong Kong	3.64 million (2007 est.)
	Hungary	4.19 million (2007 est.)
	Iceland	180,000 (2007 est.)
	India	516.4 million (2007 est.)
	Indonesia	108 million (2007 est.)
	Iran	28.7 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2006 est.)
	Iraq	7.4 million (2004 est.)
	Ireland	2.21 million (2007 est.)
	Isle of Man	39,690 (2001)
	Israel	2.88 million (2007 est.)
	Italy	24.86 million (2007 est.)
	Jamaica	1.255 million (2007 est.)
	Japan	66.07 million (2007 est.)
	Jersey	53,560 (June 2006)
	Jordan	1.563 million (2007 est.)
	Kazakhstan	8.156 million (2007 est.)
	Kenya	11.85 million (2005 est.)
	Kiribati	7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
	Korea, North	20 million note: estimates vary widely (2004 est.)
	Korea, South	23.99 million (2007 est.)
	Kosovo	832,000 (June 2007 est.)
	Kuwait	1.167 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2007 est.)
	Kyrgyzstan	2.7 million (2000)
	Laos	2.1 million (2006 est.)
	Latvia	1.136 million (2006 est.)
	Lebanon	1.5 million note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2005 est.)
	Lesotho	838,000 (2000 est.)
	Libya	1.82 million (2007 est.)
	Liechtenstein	29,500 of whom 13,900 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (31 December 2001)
	Lithuania	1.587 million (2007 est.)
	Luxembourg	205,000 of whom 121,600 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2007 est.)
	Macau	275,000 (2006)
	Macedonia	890,000 (2007 est.)
	Madagascar	7.3 million (2000)
	Malawi	4.5 million (2001 est.)
	Malaysia	10.91 million (2007 est.)
	Maldives	101,300 (2004)
	Mali	3.93 million (2001 est.)
	Malta	164,000 (2006 est.)
	Marshall Islands	14,680 (2000)
	Mauritania	786,000 (2001)
	Mauritius	550,000 (2007 est.)
	Mayotte	44,560 (2002)
	Mexico	45.38 million (2007 est.)
	Micronesia, Federated States of	37,410 (2000)
	Moldova	1.333 million (2007 est.)
	Monaco	44,000 note: includes workers from all foreign countries (2005 est.)
	Mongolia	1.042 million (2006)
	Montenegro	259,100 (2004)
	Montserrat	4,521 note: lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
	Morocco	11.35 million (2007 est.)
	Mozambique	9.6 million (2007 est.)
	Namibia	660,000 (2007 est.)
	Nepal	11.11 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (2006 est.)
	Netherlands	7.5 million (2007 est.)
	Netherlands Antilles	83,600 (2005)
	New Caledonia	78,990 (2004)
	New Zealand	2.23 million (2007 est.)
	Nicaragua	2.262 million (2007 est.)
	Niger	70,000 salaried workers, 60% of whom are employed in the public sector (1995)
	Nigeria	50.13 million (2007 est.)
	Niue	663 (2001)
	Norfolk Island	NA
	Northern Mariana Islands	44,470 total indigenous labor force; 2,699 unemployed; 28,717 foreign workers (2000)
	Norway	2.5 million (2007 est.)
	Oman	920,000 (2002 est.)
	Pakistan	49.18 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2007 est.)
	Palau	9,777 (2005)
	Panama	1.471 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2007 est.)
	Papua New Guinea	3.557 million (2007 est.)
	Paraguay	2.735 million (2007)
	Peru	9.419 million (2007 est.)
	Philippines	36.22 million (2007 est.)
	Pitcairn Islands	15 able-bodied men (2004)
	Poland	17.01 million (2007 est.)
	Portugal	5.62 million (2007 est.)
	Puerto Rico	1.3 million (2000)
	Qatar	638,000 (2007 est.)
	Romania	9.35 million (2007 est.)
	Russia	75.1 million (November 2007 est.)
	Rwanda	4.6 million (2000)
	Saint Helena	2,486 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	3,450 (2005)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	41,680 (1991 est.)
	Samoa	90,000 (2000 est.)
	San Marino	20,470 (2004)
	Sao Tome and Principe	35,050 (1991)
	Saudi Arabia	6.488 million note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2007 est.)
	Senegal	4.85 million (2007 est.)
	Serbia	2.961 million for Serbia (includes Kosovo) (2002 est.)
	Seychelles	30,900 (1996)
	Sierra Leone	1.369 million (1981 est.)
	Singapore	2.67 million (2007 est.)
	Slovakia	2.661 million (2007 est.)
	Slovenia	920,000 (2007 est.)
	Solomon Islands	249,200 (1999)
	Somalia	3.7 million (few skilled laborers) (1975)
	South Africa	20.49 million economically active (2007 est.)
	Spain	22.01 million (2007 est.)
	Sri Lanka	7.67 million (2007 est.)
	Sudan	7.415 million (1996 est.)
	Suriname	156,700 (2004)
	Svalbard	NA
	Swaziland	300,000 (2006)
	Sweden	4.66 million (2007 est.)
	Switzerland	3.85 million (2007 est.)
	Syria	5.457 million (2007 est.)
	Taiwan	10.78 million (2007 est.)
	Tajikistan	3.7 million (2003)
	Tanzania	19.69 million (2007 est.)
	Thailand	37.12 million (2007 est.)
	Timor-Leste	NA
	Togo	1.302 million (1998)
	Tokelau	440 (2001)
	Tonga	33,910 (2003)
	Trinidad and Tobago	615,400 (2007 est.)
	Tunisia	3.591 million (2007 est.)
	Turkey	25.27 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2007 est.)
	Turkmenistan	2.32 million (2003 est.)
	Turks and Caicos Islands	4,848 (1990 est.)
	Tuvalu	3,615 (2004 est.)
	Uganda	14.05 million (2007 est.)
	Ukraine	21.63 million (2007 est.)
	United Arab Emirates	3.119 million (2007 est.)
	United Kingdom	30.71 million (2007 est.)
	United States	153.1 million (includes unemployed) (2007 est.)
	Uruguay	1.5 million (2007 est.)
	Uzbekistan	14.6 million (2007 est.)
	Vanuatu	76,410 (1999)
	Venezuela	12.5 million (2007 est.)
	Vietnam	45.73 million (2007 est.)
	Virgin Islands	43,980 (2004 est.)
	Wallis and Futuna	3,104 (2003)
	West Bank	605,000 (2006)
	Western Sahara	12,000
	World	3.001 billion (2007 est.)
	Yemen	6.316 million (2007 est.)
	Zambia	4.989 million (2007 est.)
	Zimbabwe	3.998 million (2007 est.)