This entry contains the total labor force figure.
|  | World | 1,939,000,000 | | | |
| 1 |  | industry and commerce 4.6% construction and mining 4.5% social services 4.6% other | 513,000,000 | | | |
| 2 |  | India | 284,400,000; 67% agriculture | | | |
| 3 |  | United States | 123,000,000 | | | |
| 4 |  | Indonesia | 67,000,000; 55% agriculture 10% manufacturing 4% construction 3% transport and communications | | | |
| 5 |  | Japan | 60,290,000; 53% trade and services; 33% manufacturing mining and construction; 8% agriculture forestry and fishing; 3% government | | | |
| 6 |  | Brazil | 57,000,000 | | | |
| 7 |  | Nigeria | 45,000,000 | | | |
| 8 |  | services 11% | 35,100,000; 74% agriculture 15% | | | |
| 9 |  | Vietnam | 32,900,000 civilians | | | |
| 10 |  | services; extensive export of labor | 28,900,000; 54% agriculture 13% mining and manufacturing 33% | | | |
| 11 |  | services 23.4% manufacturing and construction 10.5% self-employed 4.0% government 1.1% agriculture | 28,200,000; 52 | .1% | | |
| 12 |  | Mexico | 26,100,000 | | | |
| 13 |  | industry and commerce 10% | 26,000,000; 73% agriculture 11% | | | |
| 14 |  | services 31.3% | 24,170,000; 61 | .5% | | |
| 15 |  | services 37.9% | 23,670,000; 56 | .7% | | |
| 16 |  | industry and commerce 13.5% | 22,889,000; 47% agriculture 20% | | | |
| 17 |  | services 14% | 18,800,000; 56% agriculture 30% | | | |
| 18 |  | Poland | 18,630,000 | | | |
| 19 |  | services and other; 27% mining and manufacturing; 21% agriculture fishing forestry | 16,900,000; 52% | | | |
| 20 |  | industry 9.8% trade 6.6% government 4.3% other | 15,800,000; 65 | .6% agriculture 13 | | |
| 21 |  | Iran | 15,400,000; 33% agriculture 21% manufacturing; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
| 22 |  | industry 12% | 15,000,000; 75% agriculture 13% | | | |
| 23 |  | Egypt | 15,000,000 | | | |
| 24 |  | services 24% | 14,200,000; 52% | | | |
| 25 |  | Canada | 13,380,000; services 75% manufacturing 14% agriculture 4% construction 3% other 4% | | | |
| 26 |  | services 30% agriculture 29% | 11,000,000 economically active; 34% | | | |
| 27 |  | Colombia | 11,000,000 | | | |
| 28 |  | industry 57% | 10,900,000; 12% agriculture 31% | | | |
| 29 |  | industry 28% agriculture 38% other | 10,690,000; 34% | | | |
| 30 |  | Yugoslavia | 9,600,000; 22% agriculture 27% mining and manufacturing; about 5% of labor force are guest workers in Western Europe | | | |
| 31 |  | industry and commerce 32% | 7,880,000; 41% | | | |
| 32 |  | Australia | 7,700,000; 33 | .8% finance and services 22 | | |
| 33 |  | services 15% agriculture 14% | 7,400,000; 50% public sector 20% | | | |
| 34 |  | Peru | 6,800,000 | | | |
| 35 |  | services and other | 6,600,000; 45 | .9% agriculture 13 | | |
| 36 |  | industry and commerce 6% government; labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment | 6,500,000; 80% agriculture 10% | | | |
| 37 |  | North Korea | 6,100,000; 48% agricultural 52% nonagricultural; shortage of skilled and unskilled labor | | | |
| 38 |  | Malaysia | 6,090,000; 34 | .3% agriculture 17 | | |
| 39 |  | services 28% | 5,800,000; 56% | | | |
| 40 |  | services 28.2% manufacturing and construction 15.9% government 5.8% agriculture | 5,300,000; 50 | .1% | | |
| 41 |  | Afghanistan | 4,980,000; 67 | .8% agriculture and animal husbandry 10 | | |
| 42 |  | industry 14% commerce 11% construction 9% | 4,900,000; 90% nonsalaried family workers engaged in subsistence agriculture; 175,000 wage earners - 26% agriculture 17% domestic service 15% | | | |
| 43 |  | services trade government and other 31.4% | 4,860,000; 43 | .2% | | |
| 44 |  | services 34% | 4,580,000; 44% | | | |
| 45 |  | Uganda | 4,500,000 | | | |
| 46 |  | Sweden | 4,390,000; 32 | .8% private services 30 | | |
| 47 |  | industry 20% agriculture 47% other | 4,300,000; 33% | | | |
| 48 |  | industry and oil 22% | 4,200,000; about 60% are foreign workers; 34% government 28% | | | |
| 49 |  | services 2% | 4,100,000; 93% agriculture 5% | | | |
| 50 |  | services 37% | 4,000,000; 58% | | | |
| 51 |  | services 27% agriculture 20% manufacturing and mining 7% construction | 3,860,000; 43% | | | |
| 52 |  | services | 3,840,000; 38 | .6% | | |
| 53 |  | industry 15.2% sales and clerical 7.7% | 3,700,000; 54 | .7% agriculture and fishing 18 | | |
| 54 |  | industry and commerce 30% agriculture 17% government 10% | 3,700,000; 40% | | | |
| 55 |  | industry and commerce; 49% of population of working age | 3,600,000; 93% agriculture 5% government and services 2% | | | |
| 56 |  | Iraq | 3,500,000 | | | |
| 57 |  | services and government 29% | 3,300,000; 30% | | | |
| 58 |  | services 7% | 3,300,000; 74% agriculture 19% | | | |
| 59 |  | industry 5% commerce services and government; 20% of male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment | 3,300,000 residents; 30,000 are wage earners; 82% agriculture 13% | | | |
| 60 |  | services 35.4% | 3,200,000; 56 | .4% | | |
| 61 |  | services 1% | 3,100,000; 80% agriculture 19% | | | |
| 62 |  | Zimbabwe | 3,100,000; 74% agriculture 16% transport and services 10% mining manufacturing construction | | | |
| 63 |  | services 39% | 3,050,000; 822,746 foreign workers mostly Italian; 42% | | | |
| 64 |  | services 26.4% government 18.4% manufacturing 6.1% agriculture forestry and fishing 5.8% construction | 2,860,000; 31 | .3% | | |
| 65 |  | Ecuador | 2,800,000; 52% agriculture 13% manufacturing 7% commerce 4% construction 4% public administration 20% other services and activities | | | |
| 66 |  | industry | 2,783,000 economically active; 85% agriculture 15% | | | |
| 67 |  | services 7.5% construction 8.4% transport and communications 6.1% financing insurance and real estate | 2,640,000; 35 | .8% manufacturing; 22 | | |
| 68 |  | services 22.9% mining and manufacturing 13.8% commerce 10.3% agriculture forestry and fishing 7.2% construction 7.1% transportation and communications | 2,570,000; 33 | .1% | | |
| 69 |  | Senegal | 2,509,000; 77% subsistence agricultural workers; 175,000 wage earners - 40% private sector 60% government and parapublic; 52% of population of working age | | | |
| 70 |  | Niger | 2,500,000 wage earners | | | |
| 71 |  | services 7.0% commerce 4.0% construction 3.0% transport 0.8% utilities 0.4% mining | 2,500,000; 57 | .0% agriculture 14 | | |
| 72 |  | Zambia | 2,455,000; 85% agriculture; 6% mining manufacturing and construction; 9% transport and services | | | |
| 73 |  | Guinea | 2,400,000 | | | |
| 74 | | industry | 2,400,000; 36% miscellaneous services 32% agriculture 32% | | | |
| 75 |  | services 9% | 2,300,000; 66% agriculture 25% | | | |
| 76 |  | services 18% | 2,300,000-2,600,000; 49% agriculture 33% | | | |
| 77 |  | Tunisia | 2,250,000; 32% agriculture; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
| 78 |  | Somalia | 2,200,000; very few are skilled laborers; 70% pastoral nomad 30% agriculture government trading fishing handicrafts and other; 53% of population of working age | | | |
| 79 |  | services 17.4% commerce 17.2% mining and manufacturing 8.6% transportation 7.4% construction 7.2% agriculture forestry and fishing 6.8% banking and financial services | 2,128,000; 33 | .0% | | |
| 80 |  | Benin | 1,900,000 | | | |
| 81 |  | Burundi | 1,900,000 | | | |
| 82 |  | El Salvador | 1,700,000 | | | |
| 83 |  | services and utilities 10% manufacturing 4% mining 10% other | 1,700,000; 50% agriculture 26% | | | |
| 84 |  | industry and commerce 8% | 1,660,000; 732,806 in salaried employment; 54% agriculture 25% government 9% | | | |
| 85 |  | services 19.8% manufacturing 9.3% primary production | 1,591,900; 67 | .4% | | |
| 86 |  | industry 16% | 1,500,000; 65% agriculture 19% | | | |
| 87 |  | Albania | 1,500,000 | | | |
| 88 |  | Israel | 1,400,000 | | | |
| 89 |  | services 21.4% manufacturing and construction 12.9% agriculture forestry and fishing | 1,301,667; 46 | .5% | | |
| 90 |  | Uruguay | 1,300,000; 25% government 19% manufacturing 11% agriculture 12% commerce 12% utilities construction transport and communications 21% other services | | | |
| 91 |  | industry and commerce 18% | 1,300,000; 44% agriculture 34% | | | |
| 92 |  | services 9% manufacturing 3% construction 6% other | 1,300,000; 62% agriculture 20% | | | |
| 93 |  | services 25.5% manufacturing 22.4% trade 9.7% transport and communication 7.3% construction 0.8% agriculture and fishing | 1,250,000; 29% | | | |
| 94 | | industry | 1,086,000; 43% service 44% agriculture 13% | | | |
| 95 |  | Puerto Rico | 1,062,000; 23% government 20% trade 18% manufacturing 4% agriculture 35% other | | | |
| 96 |  | industry 27% | 1,000,000 of which about 280,000 are resident foreigners; 31% | | | |
| 97 |  | Laos | 1,000,000 | | | |
| 98 |  | Costa Rica | 868,300; industry and commerce 35 | .1% government and services 33% agriculture 27% other 4 | | |
| 99 |  | Central African Republic | 775,413 | | | |
| 100 |  | Panama | 770,472 | | | |
| 101 |  | industry and commerce | 732,200 wage earners; 90% agriculture 10% | | | |
| 102 |  | industry and commerce 27% | 728,700; 32% agriculture 28% | | | |
| 103 |  | Lesotho | 689,000 economically active; 86 | .2% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; 150,000-250,000 spend from six months to many years as wage earners in South Africa | | |
| 104 |  | industry commerce and services 11% agriculture 10% goverment | 650,000; 79% | | | |
| 105 |  | United Arab Emirates | 580,000 | | | |
| 106 |  | Kuwait | 566,000 | | | |
| 107 |  | Jordan | 550,000; 20% agriculture 20% manufacturing and mining | | | |
| 108 |  | services 4.5% | 510,000 including 220,000 in the monetary economy; 70 | .5% agriculture 10 | | |
| 109 | | industry and commerce 8% | 500,000; 60% agriculture 19% | | | |
| 110 |  | Mauritania | 465,000 | | | |
| 111 |  | Trinidad and Tobago | 463,900; 18 | .1% construction and utilities; 14 | | |
| 112 |  | Oman | 430,000; 60% agriculture | | | |
| 113 |  | Malawi | 428,000 wage earners; 43% agriculture 16% manufacturing 15% personal services 9% commerce 7% construction 4% miscellaneous services 6% other permanently employed | | | |
| 114 |  | The Gambia | 400,000 | | | |
| 115 |  | Botswana | 400,000; 163,000 formal sector employees most others are engaged in cattle raising and subsistence agriculture | | | |
| 116 |  | Mauritius | 335,000; 29% government services 27% agriculture and fishing 22% manufacturing 22% other; 43% of population of working age | | | |
| 117 |  | industry and commerce 33.8% agriculture 21.7% | 268,000; 44 | .5% | | |
| 118 |  | Swaziland | 195,000; over 60,000 engaged in subsistence agriculture; about 92,000 wage earners | | | |
| 119 |  | Macau | 180,000 | | | |
| 120 |  | Fiji | 176,000; 60% subsistence agriculture 40% wage earners | | | |
| 121 |  | services 24.7% | 161,000; one-third of labor force is foreign workers mostly from Portugal Italy France Belgium and FRG; 48 | .9% | | |
| 122 |  | Comoros | 140,000 | | | |
| 123 |  | industry and commerce 5% agriculture 5% | 140,000; 42% of labor force is Bahraini; 85% | | | |
| 124 |  | The Bahamas | 132,600; 30% government 25% hotels and restaurants 10% business services 5% agriculture | | | |
| 125 |  | services 24% manufacturing 21% government | 125,674; 30% | | | |
| 126 |  | Iceland | 122,800; 55 | .4% commerce finance and services 20 | | |
| 127 |  | services government and commerce 25.8% | 120,000; 53 | .0% | | |
| 128 |  | industry and commerce 2.5% | 120,000 salaried; 65 | .0% agriculture 30 | | |
| 129 |  | services and government; 22% commerce 22% manufacturing and construction; 9% transportation storage communications and financial institutions; 8% agriculture; 2% utilities | 112,300; 37% | | | |
| 130 |  | Suriname | 104,000 | | | |
| 131 |  | Qatar | 104,000; 85% non-Qatari in private sector | | | |
| 132 |  | industry 2.2% fisheries 16.3% other | 100,000; 31 | .7% service industry 29 | | |
| 133 | | industry and commerce | 89,000; 65% government 28% | | | |
| 134 |  | Congo | 79,100 wage earners; 75% agriculture 25% commerce industry and government; 51% of population of working age; 40% of population economically active | | | |
| 135 |  | Brunei | 68,128 | | | |
| 136 |  | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 67,000 | | | |
| 137 |  | Maldives | 66,000 | | | |
| 138 |  | French Polynesia | 57,863 employed | | | |
| 139 |  | services 15.4% government 11.2% commerce 10.3% manufacturing; shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel | 51,500; 30 | .0% agriculture 16 | | |
| 140 |  | New Caledonia | 50,469; foreign workers for plantations and mines from Wallis and Futuna Vanuatu and French Polynesia | | | |
| 141 |  | U.S. Virgin Islands | 45,000 | | | |
| 142 |  | services 17.7% | 43,800; 43 | .4% agriculture 38 | | |
| 143 |  | Guam | 42,000; 45% government 55% other | | | |
| 144 |  | Western Samoa | 37,000; 22,000 employed in agriculture | | | |
| 145 |  | services 24% agriculture 8% construction 5% manufacturing 32% other | 36,000; 31% | | | |
| 146 |  | services 21% laborers 13% professional and technical 10% administrative and managerial 7% sales 2% agriculture and fishing | 32,000; 25% clerical 22% | | | |
| 147 | | industry | 30,000; 82% commerce and services 11% agriculture 7% | | | |
| 148 |  | industry and commerce 21% | 27,700; 31% | | | |
| 149 |  | Isle of Man | 25,864 | | | |
| 150 |  | industry and commerce 28% | 25,000; 40% agriculture 32% | | | |
| 151 |  | services 7.0% construction manufacturing and mining; 4.7% commerce transport and finance | 23,448 economically active; 32 | .4% agriculture forestry and fishing; 25% | | |
| 152 |  | services government and commerce 21.2% | 23,265; 60 | .6% | | |
| 153 |  | Greenland | 22,800; largely engaged in fishing hunting sheep breeding | | | |
| 154 |  | São Tomé and Príncipe | 21,096 | | | |
| 155 |  | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 20,000 | | | |
| 156 |  | Faroe Islands | 17,585; largely engaged in fishing manufacturing transportation and commerce | | | |
| 157 |  | Northern Mariana Islands | 17,533 including 10,000 foreign workers | | | |
| 158 |  | Liechtenstein | 12,258; 5,078 foreign workers | | | |
| 159 |  | Western Sahara | 12,000; 50% animal husbandry and subsistence farming | | | |
| 160 |  | American Samoa | 10,000; 48% government 33% tuna canneries 19% other | | | |
| 161 |  | Cayman Islands | 8,061; 18 | .7% service workers 18 | | |
| 162 |  | Kiribati | 7,870 economically active | | | |
| 163 |  | Cook Islands | 5,810; agriculture 29% government 27% services 25% industry 15% and other 4% | | | |
| 164 |  | Montserrat | 5,100; 40 | .5% community social and personal services 13 | | |
| 165 |  | British Virgin Islands | 4,911 | | | |
| 166 |  | Marshall Islands | 4,800 | | | |
| 167 |  | Anguilla | 2,780 | | | |
| 168 |  | Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | 2,510 | | | |
| 169 |  | Falkland Islands | 1,100 | | | |
| 170 |  | Niue | 1,000 | | | |
| 171 |  | Turks and Caicos Islands | NA; majority engaged in fishing and tourist industries; some subsistence agriculture | | | |
| 172 |  | Tuvalu | NA | | | |
| 173 |  | Ethiopia | NA; 90% agriculture and animal husbandry; 10% government military and quasi-government; 51% of population of working age | | | |
| 174 |  | Vanuatu | NA | | | |
| 175 |  | Federated States of Micronesia | NA; two-thirds are government employees; 45,000 people are between the ages of 15 and 65 | | | |
| 176 |  | Aruba | NA but most employment is in the tourist industry | | | |
| 177 |  | Holy See | about 1,500; Vatican City employees divided into three categories - executives office workers and salaried employees | | | |
| 178 |  | industry services and commerce 5% government; 53% of population of working age | NA; 90% agriculture 5% | | | |
| 179 |  | Jersey | NA | | | |
| 180 |  | Guernsey | NA | | | |
| 181 |  | Wallis and Futuna | NA | | | |
| 182 |  | West Bank | NA; excluding Israeli Jewish settlers - 29 | .8% small industry commerce and business 24 | | |
| 183 |  | Andorra | NA | | | |
| 184 |  | Gibraltar | about 14,800 | | | |
| 185 |  | services 8% | NA but most involved in subsistence agriculture; 76% agriculture 16% | | | |
| 186 |  | Saint Helena | NA | | | |
| 187 |  | Tonga | NA; 70% agriculture; 600 engaged in mining | | | |
| 188 |  | Norfolk Island | NA | | | |
| 189 |  | industry 49% | NA; 30% agriculture 21% | | | |
| 190 |  | industry and transport 14.2% other services | NA; 74 | .4% agriculture 11 | | |
| 191 |  | San Marino | about 4,300 | | | |
| 192 |  | Cabo Verde | NA; 57% agriculture | | | |
| 193 |  | Chad | NA; 85% agriculture | | | |
| 194 |  | Pitcairn Islands | NA; no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing | | | |
| 195 |  | Christmas Island | NA; all workers are employees of the Phosphate Mining Company of Christmas Island Ltd | . | | |
| 196 |  | Cocos Islands | NA | | | |
| 197 |  | Nauru | NA | | | |
| 198 |  | Tokelau | NA | | | |
| 199 |  | services 33% | Greek area - 251,406; 42% | | | |
| 200 |  | Mozambique | NA but 90% engaged in agriculture | | | |
| 201 |  | Svalbard | NA | | | |
| 202 |  | industry and commerce; massive lack of skilled labor | NA; 95% agriculture 1% | | | |
| 203 |  | Mongolia | NA but primarily agricultural; over half the adult population is in the labor force including a large percentage of women; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
| 204 |  | Monaco | NA | | | |
| 205 |  | Côte d'Ivoire | NA; over 85% of population engaged in agriculture forestry livestock raising; about 11% of labor force are wage earners nearly half in agriculture and the remainder in government industry commerce and professions; 54% of population of working age | | | |
| 206 |  | Mayotte | NA | | | |
| 207 |  | industry; about 88600 wage earners evenly divided between public and private sectors; 50% of population of working age | NA; 78% agriculture 22% | | | |
| 208 |  | Djibouti | NA but a small number of semiskilled laborers at the port and 3,000 railway workers; 52% of population of working age | | | |