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Country
Labor force
Afghanistan 15 million (2004 est.)
Albania 1.09 million (not including 352,000 emigrant workers) (September 2006 est.)
Algeria 9.31 million (2006 est.)
American Samoa 17,630 (2005)
Andorra 42,420 (2005)
Angola 6.444 million (2006 est.)
Anguilla 6,049 (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda 30,000 (1991)
Argentina 15.76 million (2006 est.)
Armenia 1.2 million (November 2006)
Aruba 41,500 (2004 est.)
Australia 10.74 million (2006 est.)
Austria 3.52 million (2006 est.)
Azerbaijan 5.165 million (2006 est.)
Bahamas, The 176,300 (2004)
Bahrain 352,000
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2006 est.)
Bangladesh 68 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. (2006 est.)
Barbados 128,500 (2001 est.)
Belarus 4.3 million (31 December 2005)
Belgium 4.9 million (2006 est.)
Belize 113,000
note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2006 est.)
Benin 3.211 million (1996)
Bermuda 38,360 (2004)
Bhutan NA
note: major shortage of skilled labor
Bolivia 4.297 million (2006 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.026 million (2001)
Botswana 288,400 formal sector employees (2004)
Brazil 97.77 million (2006 est.)
British Virgin Islands 12,770 (2004)
Brunei 180,400 (2006 est.)
Bulgaria 3.416 million (2006 est.)
Burkina Faso 5 million
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
Burma 28.49 million (2006 est.)
Burundi 2.99 million (2002)
Cambodia 7 million (2003 est.)
Cameroon 6.542 million (2006 est.)
Canada 17.59 million (2006 est.)
Cape Verde 120,600 (1990)
Cayman Islands 23,450 (2004)
Central African Republic NA
Chad 2.719 million (1993)
Chile 6.835 million (2006 est.)
China 795.3 million (2006 est.)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA
Colombia 20.34 million (2006 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 1.874 million
note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2006 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire 6.799 million (68% agricultural) (2006 est.)
Croatia 1.72 million (2006 est.)
Cuba 4.847 million
note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2006 est.)
Cyprus area under government control: 380,000
area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 95,025 (2006 est.)
Czech Republic 5.334 million (2006 est.)
Denmark 2.911 million (2006 est.)
Djibouti 282,000 (2000)
Dominica 25,000 (1999 est.)
Dominican Republic 3.896 million (2006 est.)
Ecuador 4.38 million (urban) (2006 est.)
Egypt 21.8 million (2006 est.)
El Salvador 2.875 million (2006 est.)
Equatorial Guinea NA
Eritrea NA
Estonia 687,000 (2006 est.)
Ethiopia 27.27 million (1999)
European Union 220.9 million (2006 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 1,724 (est.) (1996)
Faroe Islands 24,250 (October 2000)
Fiji 137,000 (1999)
Finland 2.65 million (2006 est.)
France 27.75 million (2006 est.)
French Polynesia 65,930 (December 2005)
Gabon 574,000 (2006 est.)
Gambia, The 400,000 (1996)
Gaza Strip 259,000 (2005)
Georgia 2.04 million (2004 est.)
Germany 43.57 million (2006 est.)
Ghana 11.07 million (2006 est.)
Gibraltar 12,690 (including non-Gibraltar laborers) (2001)
Greece 4.89 million (2006 est.)
Greenland 32,120 (2004)
Grenada 42,300 (1996)
Guam 62,050 (2002 est.)
Guatemala 3.86 million (2006 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 2.574 million (2006 est.)
Hong Kong 3.583 million (2006 est.)
Hungary 4.21 million (2006 est.)
Iceland 175,000 (2006 est.)
India 506.9 million (2006 est.)
Indonesia 106.4 million (2006 est.)
Iran 24.29 million
note: shortage of skilled labor (2006 est.)
Iraq 7.4 million (2004 est.)
Ireland 2.132 million (2006 est.)
Isle of Man 39,690 (2001)
Israel 2.81 million (2006 est.)
Italy 24.64 million (2006 est.)
Jamaica 1.249 million (2006 est.)
Japan 66.57 million (2006 est.)
Jersey 53,560 (June 2006)
Jordan 1.512 million (2006 est.)
Kazakhstan 8.029 million (2006 est.)
Kenya 1.963 million (2006 est.)
Kiribati 7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
Korea, North 9.6 million (2002 est.)
Korea, South 23.98 million (2006 est.)
Kuwait 1.168 million
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2006 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)
Libya 1.748 million (2006 est.)
Liechtenstein 29,500 of whom 13,900 commute from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (31 December 2001)
Lithuania 1.588 million (2006 est.)
Luxembourg 203,000 of whom 121,600 are foreign cross-border workers commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2006 est.)
Macau 248,000 (2005)
Macedonia 880,000 (2006 est.)
Madagascar 7.3 million (2000)
Malawi 4.5 million (2001 est.)
Malaysia 10.68 million (2006 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 541,000 (2006 est.)
Mayotte 44,560 (2002)
Mexico 44.51 million (2006 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of 37,410 (2000)
Moldova 1.339 million (2006 est.)
Monaco 44,000
note: includes workers from all foreign countries (2005 est.)
Mongolia 1.577 million (2005)
Montenegro 259,100 (2004)
Montserrat 4,521
note: lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
Morocco 10.86 million (2006 est.)
Mozambique 9.4 million (2006 est.)
Namibia 657,000 (2006 est.)
Nepal 11.11 million
note: severe lack of skilled labor (2006 est.)
Netherlands 7.49 million (2006 est.)
Netherlands Antilles 83,600 (2005)
New Caledonia 78,990 (2004)
New Zealand 2.199 million (2006 est.)
Nicaragua 2.204 million (2006 est.)
Niger 70,000 salaried workers, 60% of whom are employed in the public sector (2002 est.)
Nigeria 49.62 million (2006 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 2.447 million (2006 est.)
Oman 920,000 (2002 est.)
Pakistan 47.87 million
note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2006 est.)
Palau 9,777 (2005)
Panama 1.439 million
note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2006 est.)
Papua New Guinea 3.477 million (2006 est.)
Paraguay 2.706 million (2006 est.)
Peru 9.21 million (2006 est.)
Philippines 35.79 million (2006 est.)
Pitcairn Islands 15 able-bodied men (2004)
Poland 16.94 million (2006 est.)
Portugal 5.59 million (2006 est.)
Puerto Rico 1.3 million (2000)
Qatar 508,000 (2006 est.)
Romania 9.33 million (2006 est.)
Russia 74.26 million (2006 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 6.311 million
note: more than 35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2006 est.)
Senegal 4.723 million (2006 est.)
Serbia 2.961 million for Serbia (including Kosovo) (2002 est.)
Seychelles 30,900 (1996)
Sierra Leone 1.369 million (1981 est.)
Singapore 2.47 million (2006 est.)
Slovakia 2.658 million (2006 est.)
Slovenia 911,000 (2006 est.)
Solomon Islands 249,200 (1999)
Somalia 3.7 million (few skilled laborers) (1975)
South Africa 16.96 million economically active (2006 est.)
Spain 21.58 million (2006 est.)
Sri Lanka 7.602 million (2006 est.)
Sudan 7.415 million (1996 est.)
Suriname 156,700 (2004)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 300,000 (2006)
Sweden 4.586 million (2006 est.)
Switzerland 3.8 million (2006 est.)
Syria 5.276 million (2006 est.)
Taiwan 10.52 million (2006 est.)
Tajikistan 3.7 million (2003)
Tanzania 19.35 million (2006 est.)
Thailand 36.55 million (2006 est.)
Timor-Leste NA
Togo 1.302 million (1998)
Tokelau 440 (2001)
Tonga 33,910 (2003)
Trinidad and Tobago 625,000 (2006 est.)
Tunisia 3.503 million
note: shortage of skilled labor (2006 est.)
Turkey 24.79 million
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2006 est.)
Turkmenistan 2.32 million (2003 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 4,848 (1990 est.)
Tuvalu 3,615 (2004 est.)
Uganda 13.58 million (2006 est.)
Ukraine 21.52 million (2006 est.)
United Arab Emirates 2.968 million (2006 est.)
United Kingdom 30.48 million (2006 est.)
United States 151.4 million (includes unemployed) (2006 est.)
Uruguay 1.27 million (2006 est.)
Uzbekistan 14.43 million (2006 est.)
Vanuatu 76,410 (1999)
Venezuela 12.19 million (2006 est.)
Vietnam 44.58 million (2006 est.)
Virgin Islands 43,980 (2004 est.)
Wallis and Futuna 3,104 (2003)
West Bank 568,000 (2005)
Western Sahara 12,000
World 3.001 billion (2005 est.)
Yemen 5.972 million (2006 est.)
Zambia 4.92 million (2006 est.)
Zimbabwe 3.99 million (2006 est.)

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