Compare Labor force - by occupation (2004) - Labor force - by occupation (2005)

Labor force - by occupation (2004)

Labor force - by occupation (2005)

Afghanistan

agriculture 80%, industry 10%, services 10% (1990 est.)

agriculture 80%, industry 10%, services 10% (2004 est.)

Albania

agriculture 57%, non-agricultural private sector 20%, public sector 23% (2003 est.)

agriculture 57%, non-agricultural private sector 20%, public sector 23% (2004 est.)

Algeria

agriculture 14%, industry 13.4%, construction and public works 10%, trade 14.6%, government 32%, other 16% (2003 est.)

American Samoa

tuna canneries 34%, government 33%, other 33% (1990)

Andorra

agriculture 1%, industry 21%, services 78% (2000 est.)

Angola

agriculture 85%, industry and services 15% (2003 est.)

Anguilla

agriculture/fishing/forestry/mining 4%, manufacturing 3%, construction 18%, transportation and utilities 10%, commerce 36%, services 29% (2000 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda

agriculture 7%, industry 11%, services 82% (1983)

Argentina

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Armenia

agriculture 45%, industry 25%, services 30% (2002 est.)

Aruba

most employment is in wholesale and retail trade and repair, followed by hotels and restaurants; oil refining

Australia

agriculture 5%, industry 22%, services 73% (1997 est.)

agriculture 3.6%, industry 26.4%, services 70% (2004 est.)

Austria

agriculture and forestry 4%, industry and crafts 29%, services 67% (2001 est.)

Azerbaijan

agriculture and forestry 41%, industry 7%, services 52% (2001)

Bahamas, The

agriculture 5%, industry 5%, tourism 50%, other services 40% (1999 est.)

Bahrain

agriculture 1%, industry, commerce, and services 79%, government 20% (1997 est.)

Bangladesh

agriculture 63%, industry 11%, services 26% (FY95/96)

Barbados

agriculture 10%, industry 15%, services 75% (1996 est.)

Belarus

NA

agriculture 14%, industry 34.7%, services 51.3% (2003 est.)

Belgium

agriculture 1.3%, industry 24.5%, services 74.2% (2003 est.)

Belize

agriculture 27%, industry 18%, services 55% (2001 est.)

Bermuda

agriculture and fishing 3%, laborers 17%, clerical 22%, professional and technical 17%, administrative and managerial 13%, sales 8%, services 20% (2000 est.)

Bhutan

agriculture 93%, industry and commerce 2%, services 5%

Bolivia

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Bosnia and Herzegovina

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Botswana

NA

Brazil

agriculture 23%, industry 24%, services 53%

agriculture 20%, industry 14%, services 66% (2003 est.)

British Virgin Islands

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Brunei

agriculture, forestry, and fishing 10%, production of oil, natural gas, services, and construction 42%, government 48% (1999 est.)

Bulgaria

agriculture 26%, industry 31%, services 43% (1998 est.)

agriculture 11%, industry 32.7%, services 56.3% (3rd quarter 2004 est.)

Burkina Faso

agriculture 90% (2000 est.)

Burma

agriculture 70%, industry 7%, services 23% (2001 est.)

Burundi

agriculture 93.6%, industry 2.3%, services 4.1% (2002 est.)

Cambodia

agriculture 75% (2003 est.)

agriculture 75% (2004 est.)

Cameroon

agriculture 70%, industry and commerce 13%, other 17%

Canada

agriculture 3%, manufacturing 15%, construction 5%, services 74%, other 3% (2000)

Cayman Islands

agriculture 1.4%, industry 12.6%, services 86% (1995)

Chad

agriculture more than 80% (subsistence farming, herding, and fishing)

Chile

agriculture 13.6%, industry 23.4%, services 63% (2003 est.)

agriculture 13.6%, industry 23.4%, services 63% (2003)

China

agriculture 50%, industry 22%, services 28% (2001 est.)

agriculture 49%, industry 22%, services 29% (2003 est.)

Christmas Island

NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others

Colombia

agriculture 30%, industry 24%, services 46% (1990)

Comoros

agriculture 80%

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

NA

Cook Islands

agriculture 29%, industry 15%, services 56%

note: shortage of skilled labor (1995)

Costa Rica

agriculture 20%, industry 22%, services 58% (1999 est.)

Croatia

agriculture 13.2%, industry 25.4%, services 46.4% (2002)

agriculture 2.7%, industry 32.8%, services 64.5% (2004)

Cuba

agriculture 24%, industry 25%, services 51% (1999)

Cyprus

Republic of Cyprus: services 75.6%, industry 19.4%, agriculture 4.9% (2003); north Cyprus: services 68.9%, industry 20.5%, agriculture 10.6% (2003)

Republic of Cyprus: agriculture 4.9%, industry 19.4%, services 75.6%

north Cyprus: agriculture 15.1%, industry 27%, services 57.9% (2003 est.)

Czech Republic

agriculture 5%, industry 35%, services 60% (2001 est.)

agriculture 4%, industry 38%, services 58% (2002 est.)

Denmark

agriculture 4%, industry 17%, services 79% (2002 est.)

Djibouti

NA

Dominica

agriculture 40%, industry and commerce 32%, services 28%

Dominican Republic

agriculture 17%, industry 24.3%, services and government 58.7% (1998 est.)

East Timor

NA

Ecuador

agriculture 30%, industry 25%, services 45% (2001 est.)

agriculture 8%, industry 24%, services 68% (2001)

Egypt

agriculture 32%, industry 17%, services 51% (2001 est.)

El Salvador

agriculture 30%, industry 15%, services 55% (1999 est.)

agriculture 17.1%, industry 17.1%, services 65.8% (2003 est.)

Eritrea

agriculture 80%, industry and services 20%

Estonia

agriculture 11%, industry 20%, services 69% (1999 est.)

Ethiopia

agriculture and animal husbandry 80%, industry and construction 8%, government and services 12% (1985)

European Union

agriculture 4.3%, industry 29%, services 66.8% (2000)

agriculture 4.5%, industry 27.4%, services 66.9%

note: the remainder is in miscellaneous public and private sector industries and services (2004)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

agriculture 95% (mostly sheepherding and fishing)

Faroe Islands

fishing, fish processing, and manufacturing 33%, construction and private services 33%, public services 34%

Fiji

agriculture, including subsistence agriculture 70% (2001 est.)

Finland

agriculture and forestry 8%, industry 22%, construction 6%, commerce 14%, finance, insurance, and business services 10%, transport and communications 8%, public services 32%

France

agriculture 4.1%, industry 24.4%, services 71.5% (1999)

French Guiana

agriculture 18.2%, industry 21.2%, services, government, and commerce 60.6% (1980)

French Polynesia

agriculture 13%, industry 19%, services 68% (1997)

agriculture 13%, industry 19%, services 68% (2002)

Gabon

agriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25%

Gambia, The

agriculture 75%, industry, commerce, and services 19%, government 6%

Gaza Strip

agriculture 13%, industry 21%, services 66% (1996)

agriculture 14%, industry 19%, services 66% (2004)

Georgia

agriculture 40%, industry 20%, services 40% (1999 est.)

Germany

agriculture 2.8%, industry 33.4%, services 63.8% (1999)

Ghana

agriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25% (1999 est.)

Gibraltar

agriculture negligible, industry 40%, services 60%

Greece

agriculture 20%, industry 20%, services 60% (2000 est.)

agriculture 12%, industry 20%, services 68% (2004 est.)

Grenada

agriculture 24%, industry 14%, services 62% (1999 est.)

Guadeloupe

NA

Guam

private 74% (industry 10%, trade 24%, other services 40%), federal and territorial government 26% (2000 est.)

Guatemala

agriculture 50%, industry 15%, services 35% (1999 est.)

Guinea

agriculture 80%, industry and services 20% (2000 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

agriculture 82% (2000 est.)

Guyana

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Haiti

agriculture 66%, industry 9%, services 25%

Holy See (Vatican City)

essentially services with a small amount of industry; note - dignitaries, priests, nuns, guards, and 3,000 lay workers live outside the Vatican

Honduras

agriculture 34%, industry 21%, services 45% (2001 est.)

Hong Kong

manufacturing 8.2%, construction 2.9%, wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels 43.5%, financing, insurance, and real estate 19.5%, transport and communications 7.8%, community and social services 17.8% (Note: above data exclude public sector) (2002 est.)

manufacturing 7.5%, construction 2.9%, wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels 43.7%, financing, insurance, and real estate 19.2%, transport and communications 7.9%, community and social services 18.5%

note: above data exclude public sector (2004 est.)

Hungary

agriculture 8%, industry 27%, services 65% (1996)

agriculture 6.2%, industry 27.1%, services 66.7% (2002)

Iceland

agriculture 5.1%, fishing and fish processing 11.8%, manufacturing 12.9%, construction 10.7%, services 59.5% (1999)

agriculture, fishing and fish processing 10.3%, industry 18.3%, services 71.4% (2003)

India

agriculture 60%, industry 17%, services 23% (1999)

Indonesia

agriculture 45%, industry 16%, services 39% (1999 est.)

Iran

agriculture 30%, industry 25%, services 45% (2001 est.)

Iraq

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Ireland

agriculture 8%, industry 29%, services 64% (2002 est.)

agriculture 8%, industry 29%, services 63% (2002 est.)

Isle of Man

agriculture, forestry and fishing 3%, manufacturing 11%, construction 10%, transport and communication 8%, wholesale and retail distribution 11%, professional and scientific services 18%, public administration 6%, banking and finance 18%, tourism 2%, entertainment and catering 3%, miscellaneous services 10%

Israel

agriculture, forestry, and fishing 2.6%, manufacturing 20.2%, construction 7.5%, commerce 12.8%, transport, storage, and communications 6.2%, finance and business 13.1%, personal and other services 6.4%, public services 31.2% (1996)

Italy

agriculture 5%, industry 32%, services 63% (2001)

Jamaica

agriculture 21%, industry 19%, services 60% (1998)

agriculture 20.1%, industry 16.6%, services 63.4% (2003)

Japan

agriculture 5%, industry 25%, services 70% (2002 est.)

Jordan

agriculture 5%, industry 12.5%, services 82.5% (2001 est.)

Kazakhstan

agriculture 20%, industry 30%, services 50% (2002 est.)

Kenya

agriculture 75% (2003 est.)

Korea, North

agricultural 36%, nonagricultural 64%

Korea, South

agriculture 8.8%, industry 19.1%, services 72.1% (2001)

agriculture 8%, industry 19%, services 73% (2004 est.)

Kuwait

agriculture NA, industries NA, services NA

Kyrgyzstan

agriculture 55%, industry 15%, services 30% (2000 est.)

Laos

agriculture 80% (1997 est.)

Latvia

agriculture 15%, industry 25%, services 60% (2000 est.)

Lebanon

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Lesotho

86% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa

Liberia

agriculture 70%, industry 8%, services 22% (2000 est.)

Libya

agriculture 17%, industry 29%, services 54% (1997 est.)

Liechtenstein

agriculture 1.3%, industry 47.4%, services 51.3% (31 December 2001 est.)

Lithuania

agriculture 20%, industry 30%, services 50% (1997 est.)

Luxembourg

agriculture 1.9%, industry 8%, services 90.1% (1999 est.)

agriculture 1%, industry 13%, services 86% (2004 est.)

Macau

manufacturing 20%, construction 7%, transport and communications 6%, wholesale and retail trade 15%, restaurants and hotels 12%, gambling 7%, public sector 8%, other services and agriculture 25% (2002 est.)

manufacturing 18.3%, construction 8%, transport and communications 7%, wholesale and retail trade 16.2%, restaurants and hotels 10.9%, gambling 11.6%, public sector 8.8%, other services and agriculture 19.2% (2003 est.)

Macedonia

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Malawi

agriculture 90% (2003 est.)

Malaysia

agriculture 14.5%, industry 36%, services 49.5% (2000 est.)

Maldives

agriculture 22%, industry 18%, services 60% (1995)

Mali

agriculture and fishing 80% (2001 est.)

Malta

agriculture 5%, industry 24%, services 71% (1999 est.)

Marshall Islands

agriculture 21.4%, industry 20.9%, services 57.7%

Martinique

agriculture 10%, industry 17%, services 73% (1997)

Mauritania

agriculture 50%, industry 10%, services 40% (2001 est.)

Mauritius

agriculture and fishing 14%, construction and industry 36%, transportation and communication 7%, trade, restaurants, hotels 16%, finance 3%, other services 24% (1995)

Mexico

agriculture 18%, industry 24%, services 58% (2003)

Micronesia, Federated States of

two-thirds are government employees

Moldova

agriculture 40%, industry 14%, services 46% (1998)

Mongolia

herding/agriculture 46%, manufacturing 6%, trade 10.3%, public sector 4.7%, other/unemployed 33% (2001)

herding/agriculture 42%, mining 4%, manufacturing 6%, trade 14%, services 29%, public sector 5%, other 3.7% (2003)

Montserrat

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Morocco

agriculture 40%, industry 15%, services 45% (2003 est.)

Mozambique

agriculture 81%, industry 6%, services 13% (1997 est.)

Namibia

agriculture 47%, industry 20%, services 33% (1999 est.)

Nauru

employed in mining phosphates, public administration, education, and transportation

Nepal

agriculture 81%, industry 3%, services 16%

Netherlands

agriculture 4%, industry 23%, services 73% (1998 est.)

Netherlands Antilles

agriculture 1%, industry 13%, services 86% (2000 est.)

New Caledonia

agriculture 7%, industry 23%, services 70% (1999 est.)

New Zealand

agriculture 10%, industry 25%, services 65% (1995)

Nicaragua

agriculture 42%, industry 15%, services 43% (1999 est.)

agriculture 30.5%, industry 17.3%, services 52.2% (2003 est.)

Niger

agriculture 90%, industry and commerce 6%, government 4%

Nigeria

agriculture 70%, industry 10%, services 20% (1999 est.)

Niue

most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board

Norfolk Island

tourism NA, subsistence agriculture NA

tourism 90%, subsistence agriculture 10%

Northern Mariana Islands

NA

Norway

agriculture, forestry, and fishing 4%, industry 22%, services 74% (1995)

Oman

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Pakistan

agriculture 44%, industry 17%, services 39% (1999 est.)

agriculture 42%, industry 20%, services 38% (2004 est.)

Palau

agriculture 20%, industry NA, services NA (1990)

Panama

agriculture 20.8%, industry 18%, services 61.2% (1995 est.)

Papua New Guinea

agriculture 85%, industry NA, services NA

Paraguay

agriculture 45%

Peru

agriculture 5.9%, mining and quarrying 0.4%, manufacturing 12.6%, construction 5.3%, commerce 26.3%, household work 4.9%, other services 44.6% (2004)

agriculture 9%, industry 18%, services 73% (2001)

Philippines

agriculture 45%, industry 15%, services 40% (2003 est.)

agriculture 36%, industry 16%, services 48% (2004 est.)

Pitcairn Islands

no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing

Poland

agriculture 27.5%, industry 22.1%, services 50.4% (1999)

agriculture 16.1%, industry 29%, services 54.9% (2002)

Portugal

agriculture 10%, industry 30%, services 60% (1999 est.)

Puerto Rico

agriculture 3%, industry 20%, services 77% (2000 est.)

Reunion

agriculture 13%, industry 12%, services 75% (2000)

Romania

agriculture 41.4%, industry 27.3%, services 31.3% (2000)

agriculture 31.6%, industry 30.7%, services 37.7% (2004)

Russia

agriculture 12.3%, industry 22.7%, services 65% (2002 est.)

Rwanda

agriculture 90%

Saint Helena

agriculture and fishing 6%, industry (mainly construction) 48%, services 46% (1987 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

NA

Saint Lucia

agriculture 21.7%, industry, commerce, and manufacturing 24.7%, services 53.6% (2002 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

fishing 18%, industry (mainly fish-processing) 41%, services 41% (1996 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

agriculture 26%, industry 17%, services 57% (1980 est.)

Samoa

NA

San Marino

agriculture 1%, industry 42%, services 57% (2000 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe

population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing

note: shortages of skilled workers

Saudi Arabia

agriculture 12%, industry 25%, services 63% (1999 est.)

Senegal

agriculture 70%

Serbia and Montenegro

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Seychelles

agriculture 10%, industry 19%, services 71% (1989)

Sierra Leone

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Singapore

manufacturing 18%, construction 6%, transportation and communication 11%, financial, business, and other services 49%, other 16% (2003)

Slovakia

agriculture 8.9%, industry 29.3%, construction 8%, transport and communication 8.2%, services 45.6% (1994)

agriculture 5.8%, industry 29.3%, construction 9%, services 55.9% (2003)

Slovenia

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture 6%, industry 40%, services 55% (2002)

Solomon Islands

agriculture 75%, industry 5%, services 20% (2000 est.)

Somalia

agriculture (mostly pastoral nomadism) 71%, industry and services 29%

South Africa

agriculture 30%, industry 25%, services 45% (1999 est.)

Spain

agriculture 7%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 29%, services 64% (2001 est.)

agriculture 5.3%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 30.1%, services 64.6% (2004 est.)

Sri Lanka

agriculture 38%, industry 17%, services 45% (1998 est.)

Sudan

agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 7%, government 13% (1998 est.)

Suriname

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Swaziland

NA

Sweden

agriculture 2%, industry 24%, services 74% (2000 est.)

Switzerland

agriculture 4.6%, industry 26.3%, services 69.1% (1998)

Syria

agriculture, industry, services NA

agriculture 30%, industry 27%, services 43% (2002 est.)

Taiwan

agriculture 7.5%, industry 35%, services 57% (2001 est.)

agriculture 8%, industry 35%, services 57% (2001 est.)

Tajikistan

agriculture 67.2%, industry 7.5%, services 25.3% (2000 est.)

Tanzania

agriculture 80%, industry and services 20% (2002 est.)

Thailand

agriculture 49%, industry 14%, services 37% (2000 est.)

Togo

agriculture 65%, industry 5%, services 30% (1998 est.)

Tonga

agriculture 65% (1997 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

agriculture 9.5%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14%, construction and utilities 12.4%, services 64.1% (1997 est.)

Tunisia

services 55%, industry 23%, agriculture 22% (1995 est.)

Turkey

agriculture 39.7%, industry 22.4%, services 37.9% (3rd quarter, 2001)

agriculture 35.9%, industry 22.8%, services 41.2% (3rd quarter, 2004)

Turkmenistan

agriculture 48%, industry 15%, services 37% (1998 est.)

agriculture 48.2%, industry 13.8%, services 37% (2003 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands

about 33% in government and 20% in agriculture and fishing; significant numbers in tourism, financial, and other services

Tuvalu

people make a living mainly through exploitation of the sea, reefs, and atolls and from wages sent home by those abroad (mostly workers in the phosphate industry and sailors)

Uganda

agriculture 82%, industry 5%, services 13% (1999 est.)

Ukraine

agriculture 24%, industry 32%, services 44% (1996)

United Arab Emirates

agriculture 7%, industry 15%, services 78% (2000 est.)

United Kingdom

agriculture 1%, industry 25%, services 74% (1999)

agriculture 1.5%, industry 19.1%, services 79.5% (2004)

United States

managerial, professional, and technical 34.9%, sales and office 25.5%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.7%, other services 16.3%, farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7%

note: figures exclude the unemployed (2004)

farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.7%, managerial, professional, and technical 34.9%, sales and office 25.5%, other services 16.3%

note: figures exclude the unemployed (2004)

Uruguay

agriculture 14%, industry 16%, services 70%

Uzbekistan

agriculture 44%, industry 20%, services 36% (1995)

Vanuatu

agriculture 65%, industry 5%, services 30% (2000 est.)

Venezuela

agriculture 13%, industry 23%, services 64% (1997 est.)

Vietnam

agriculture 63%, industry and services 37% (2000 est.)

Virgin Islands

agriculture 1%, industry 19%, services 80% (2003 est.)

Wallis and Futuna

agriculture, livestock, and fishing 80%, government 4% (2001 est.)

West Bank

agriculture 13%, industry 21%, services 66% (1996)

agriculture 15%, industry 25%, services 60% (2004 est.)

Western Sahara

animal husbandry and subsistence farming 50%

World

agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%

Yemen

most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force

Zambia

agriculture 85%, industry 6%, services 9%

Zimbabwe

agriculture 66%, industry 10%, services 24% (1996)