FIELD LISTING :: LABOR FORCE
This entry contains the total labor force figure.
| Country | LABOR FORCE |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan |
7.512 million (2012 est.) |
| Albania |
1.295 million (2014 est.) |
| Algeria |
12.19 million (2014 est.) |
| American Samoa |
16,090 (2013) |
| Andorra |
36,060 (2012) |
| Angola |
9.298 million (2014 est.) |
| Anguilla |
6,049 (2001) |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
30,000 (1991) |
| Argentina |
17.31 million note: urban areas only (2014 est.) |
| Armenia |
1.489 million (2014 est.) |
| Aruba |
51,610 note: of the 51,610 workers aged 15 and over in the labor force, 32,252 were born in Aruba and 19,353 came from abroad; foreign workers are 38% of the employed population (2007 est.) |
| Australia |
12.37 million (2014 est.) |
| Austria |
3.86 million (2014 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
4.821 million (2014 est.) |
| Bahamas, The |
196,900 (2013 est.) |
| Bahrain |
705,000 note: excludes unemployed; 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2014 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
80.27 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances were $10.9 billion in FY09/10 (2014 est.) |
| Barbados |
142,800 (2014 est.) |
| Belarus |
4.546 million (2013 est.) |
| Belgium |
5.225 million (2014 est.) |
| Belize |
120,500 note: shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (2008 est.) |
| Benin |
3.662 million (2007 est.) |
| Bermuda |
33,490 (2014 est.) |
| Bhutan |
345,800 note: major shortage of skilled labor (2013 est.) |
| Bolivia |
4.881 million (2014 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1.281 million (2014 est.) |
| Botswana |
1.017 million (2014 est.) |
| Brazil |
110.9 million (2014 est.) |
| British Virgin Islands |
12,770 (2004) |
| Brunei |
205,800 (2011 est.) |
| Bulgaria |
2.981 million note: number of employed persons (2014 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
7.468 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2012 est.) |
| Burma |
35.23 million (2014 est.) |
| Burundi |
4.806 million (2014 est.) |
| Cabo Verde |
196,100 (2007 est.) |
| Cambodia |
7.974 million (2013 est.) |
| Cameroon |
9.105 million (2014 est.) |
| Canada |
19.21 million (2014 est.) |
| Cayman Islands |
39,000 note: nearly 55% are non-nationals (2007 est.) |
| Central African Republic |
2.217 million (2014 est.) |
| Chad |
4.919 million (2014 est.) |
| Chile |
8.514 million (2014 est.) |
| China |
801.6 million note: by the end of 2012, China's population at working age (15-64 years) was 1.004 billion (2014 est.) |
| Christmas Island |
NA |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
NA |
| Colombia |
23.67 million (2014 est.) |
| Comoros |
239,000 (2012 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
27.59 million (2014 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
2.89 million (2011 est.) |
| Cook Islands |
6,820 (2001) |
| Costa Rica |
2.257 million note: this official estimate excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2014 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
8.118 million (2014 est.) |
| Croatia |
1.725 million (2014 est.) |
| Cuba |
5.092 million note: state sector 72.3%, non-state sector 27.7% (2014 est.) |
| Curacao |
73,010 (2013) |
| Cyprus |
356,700 (2013 est.) |
| Czech Republic |
5.416 million (2014 est.) |
| Denmark |
2.771 million (2014 est.) |
| Djibouti |
294,600 (2012) |
| Dominica |
25,000 (2000 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
4.996 million (2014 est.) |
| Ecuador |
7.214 million (2014 est.) |
| Egypt |
28.26 million (2014 est.) |
| El Salvador |
2.752 million (2014 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
195,200 (2007 est.) |
| Eritrea |
3.159 million (2014 est.) |
| Estonia |
669,800 (2014 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
47.32 million (2014 est.) |
| European Union |
224.2 million (2014 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
1,944 (2012 est.) |
| Faroe Islands |
34,710 (November 2010) |
| Fiji |
345,700 (2014 est.) |
| Finland |
2.665 million (2014 est.) |
| France |
29.87 million (2014 est.) |
| French Polynesia |
114,300 (2012 est.) |
| Gabon |
636,000 (2014 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
777,100 (2007 est.) |
| Gaza Strip |
1.066 million (2014 est.) |
| Georgia |
1.959 million (2011 est.) |
| Germany |
42.65 million (2014 est.) |
| Ghana |
11.25 million (2014 est.) |
| Gibraltar |
22,910 (2001) (2013 est.) |
| Greece |
3.91 million (2013 est.) |
| Greenland |
26,990 (2012 est.) |
| Grenada |
59,900 (2013 est.) |
| Guam |
70,490 note: this number is for the civilian labor force only (2013 est.) |
| Guatemala |
4.576 million (2014 est.) |
| Guernsey |
31,470 (March 2006) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
632,700 (2007 est.) |
| Guinea |
5.045 million (2014 est.) |
| Guyana |
313,800 (2013 est.) |
| Haiti |
4.81 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2010 est.) |
| Holy See (Vatican City) |
2,885 (December 2011) |
| Honduras |
3.579 million (2014 est.) |
| Hong Kong |
3.871 million (2014 est.) |
| Hungary |
4.388 million (2014 est.) |
| Iceland |
185,900 (2014 est.) |
| India |
502.2 million (2014 est.) |
| Indonesia |
124.3 million (2014 est.) |
| Iran |
28.4 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2014 est.) |
| Iraq |
8.9 million (2010 est.) |
| Ireland |
2.174 million (2014 est.) |
| Isle of Man |
41,790 (2006) |
| Israel |
3.784 million (2014 est.) |
| Italy |
25.51 million (2014 est.) |
| Jamaica |
1.311 million (2014 est.) |
| Japan |
65.48 million (February 2015 est.) |
| Jersey |
53,380 (June 2012) |
| Jordan |
1.959 million (2014 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
9.103 million (2014 est.) |
| Kenya |
17.7 million (2014 est.) |
| Kiribati |
39,000 note: economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2010 est.) |
| Korea, North |
15.21 million note: estimates vary widely (2013 est.) |
| Korea, South |
26.27 million (2014 est.) |
| Kosovo |
483,200 note: includes those estimated to be employed in the grey economy (2013 est.) |
| Kuwait |
2.397 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force (2014 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
2.615 million (2014 est.) |
| Laos |
3.445 million (2014 est.) |
| Latvia |
1.014 million (2014 est.) |
| Lebanon |
1.481 million note: does not include as many as 1 million foreign workers (2007 est.) |
| Lesotho |
894,400 (2014 est.) |
| Liberia |
1.554 million (2014 est.) |
| Libya |
1.738 million (2014 est.) |
| Liechtenstein |
35,830 (2012) note: 51% of the labor force in Liechtenstein commute daily from Austria, Switzerland, or Germany (2012 est.) |
| Lithuania |
1.454 million (2014 est.) |
| Luxembourg |
253,600 note: data exclude foreign workers; in addition to the figure for domestic labor force, about 150,000 workers commute daily from France, Belgium, and Germany (2014 est.) |
| Macau |
367,800 (2013 est.) |
| Macedonia |
961,400 (2014 est.) |
| Madagascar |
12.15 million (2014 est.) |
| Malawi |
5.747 million (2007 est.) |
| Malaysia |
14.01 million (2014 est.) |
| Maldives |
159,700 (2012) |
| Mali |
5.538 million (2014 est.) |
| Malta |
180,100 (2014 est.) |
| Marshall Islands |
10,670 (2013 est.) |
| Mauritania |
1.292 million (2014 est.) |
| Mauritius |
600,200 (2014 est.) |
| Mexico |
52.9 million (2014 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
37,920 (2010 est.) |
| Moldova |
1.23 million (2014 est.) |
| Monaco |
52,000 note: includes all foreign workers (2014 est.) |
| Mongolia |
1.128 million (2014 est.) |
| Montenegro |
263,200 (2014 est.) |
| Montserrat |
4,521 (2012) |
| Morocco |
12 million (2014 est.) |
| Mozambique |
12.25 million (2014 est.) |
| Namibia |
991,000 (2014 est.) |
| Nepal |
14.76 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (2012 est.) |
| Netherlands |
8.214 million (2014 est.) |
| New Caledonia |
106,400 (2010 est.) |
| New Zealand |
2.452 million (2014 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
2.953 million (2014 est.) |
| Nigeria |
54.97 million (2014 est.) |
| Niger |
5.8 million (2014 est.) |
| Niue |
663 (2001) |
| Norfolk Island |
978 (2006) |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
27,970 note: includes foreign workers (2010 est.) |
| Norway |
2.724 million (2014 est.) |
| Oman |
968,800 note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national (2007 est.) |
| Pakistan |
62.42 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2014 est.) |
| Palau |
10,470 (2014) |
| Panama |
1.563 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2014 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea |
4.171 million (2014 est.) |
| Paraguay |
3.26 million (2014 est.) |
| Peru |
16.55 million note: individuals older than 14 years of age (2014 est.) |
| Philippines |
40.05 million (2014 est.) |
| Pitcairn Islands |
15 (2004) |
| Poland |
18.26 million (2014 est.) |
| Portugal |
5.226 million (2014 est.) |
| Puerto Rico |
1.139 million (December 2014 est.) |
| Qatar |
1.553 million (2014 est.) |
| Romania |
9.172 million (2014 est.) |
| Russia |
75.25 million (2014 est.) |
| Rwanda |
6.061 million (2014 est.) |
| Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha |
2,486 (1998 est.) |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
18,170 (June 1995 est.) |
| Saint Lucia |
79,700 (2012 est.) |
| Saint Martin |
17,300 (2008 est.) |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
3,194 (2006) |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
57,520 (2007 est.) |
| Samoa |
48,580 (2012 est.) |
| San Marino |
21,960 (September 2013 est.) |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
70,200 (2014 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
11.22 million note: about 80% of the labor force is non-national (2014 est.) |
| Senegal |
6.326 million (2014 est.) |
| Serbia |
2.818 million (2014 est.) |
| Seychelles |
39,560 (2006 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
2.471 million (2014 est.) |
| Singapore |
3.623 million note: excludes non-residents (2014 est.) |
| Sint Maarten |
23,200 (2008 est.) |
| Slovakia |
2.363 million (2014 est.) |
| Slovenia |
913,500 (2014 est.) |
| Solomon Islands |
202,500 (2007 est.) |
| Somalia |
3.011 million (2012 est.) |
| South Africa |
20.23 million (2014 est.) |
| Spain |
23.03 million (2014 est.) |
| Sri Lanka |
8.916 million (2014 est.) |
| Sudan |
11.92 million (2007 est.) |
| Suriname |
165,600 (2007 est.) |
| Svalbard |
1,590 (2013) |
| Swaziland |
435,500 (2012 est.) |
| Sweden |
5.124 million (2014 est.) |
| Switzerland |
5.008 million (2014 est.) |
| Syria |
4.022 million (2014 est.) |
| Taiwan |
11.54 million (2014 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
2.209 million (2013 est.) |
| Tanzania |
25 million (2014 est.) |
| Thailand |
38.26 million (2014 est.) |
| Timor-Leste |
247,500 (2012 est.) |
| Togo |
2.595 million (2007 est.) |
| Tokelau |
440 (2001) |
| Tonga |
33,800 (2011 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
623,500 (2014 est.) |
| Tunisia |
3.95 million (2014 est.) |
| Turkey |
27.56 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2014 est.) |
| Turkmenistan |
2.305 million (2013 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
4,848 (1990 est.) |
| Tuvalu |
3,615 (2004 est.) |
| Uganda |
18 million (2014 est.) |
| Ukraine |
22.11 million (2014 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates |
4.891 million note: expatriates account for about 85% of the work force (2014 est.) |
| United Kingdom |
32.62 million (2013 est.) |
| United States |
156 million note: includes unemployed (2014 est.) |
| Uruguay |
1.712 million (2014 est.) |
| Uzbekistan |
17.24 million (2014 est.) |
| Vanuatu |
115,900 (2007 est.) |
| Venezuela |
14.34 million (2014 est.) |
| Vietnam |
54.07 million (2014 est.) |
| Virgin Islands |
50,580 (2012 est.) |
| Wallis and Futuna |
3,104 (2003) |
| West Bank |
1.066 million (2014 est.) |
| Western Sahara |
144,000 (2010 est.) |
| World |
3.36 billion (2014 est.) |
| Yemen |
7.262 million (2014 est.) |
| Zambia |
6.338 million (2014 est.) |
| Zimbabwe |
5.634 million (2014 est.) |