This entry contains the total labor force figure.
| | World | 2,240,000,000 | | | |
1 | | China | 567,400,000 | | | |
2 | | India | 284,400,000; 67% agriculture | | | |
3 | | United States | 126,867,000 | | | |
4 | | Russia | 78,682,000 | | | |
5 | | Indonesia | 67,000,000; agriculture 55% manufacturing 10% construction 4% transport and communications 3% | | | |
6 | | Japan | 63,330,000; trade and services 54%; manufacturing mining and construction 33%; agriculture forestry and fishing 7%; government 3% | | | |
7 | | Brazil | 57,000,000 | | | |
8 | | Nigeria | 42,844,000; agriculture 54% industry commerce and services 19% government 15%; 49% of population of working age | | | |
9 | | Germany | 36,750,000; industry 41% agriculture 6% other 53% | | | |
10 | | Bangladesh | 35,100,000 | | | |
11 | | Vietnam | 32,700,000 | | | |
12 | | Thailand | 30,870,000; agriculture 62% industry 13% commerce 11% services | | | |
13 | | Pakistan | 28,900,000; agriculture 54% mining and manufacturing 13% services 33%; extensive export of labor | | | |
14 | | United Kingdom | 26,177,000; services 60 | .6% manufacturing and construction 27 | | |
15 | | Mexico | 26,100,000 | | | |
16 | | Ukraine | 25,277,000; industry and construction 41% agriculture and forestry 19% health education and culture 18% trade and distribution 8% transport and communication 7% other 7% | | | |
17 | | France | 24,170,000; services 61 | .5% industry 31 | | |
18 | | Philippines | 24,120,000; agriculture 46% industry and commerce 16% services 18 | .5% government 10% other 9 | | |
19 | | Italy | 23,988,000; services 58% industry 32 | .2% agriculture 9 | | |
20 | | Turkey | 20,700,000; agriculture 49% services 30% industry 15%; about 1,500,000 Turks work abroad | | | |
21 | | Ethiopia | 18,000,000; agriculture and animal husbandry 80% government and services 12% industry and construction 8% | | | |
22 | | Poland | 17,104,000; industry and construction 36 | .1%; agriculture 27 | | |
23 | | services and other; 27% mining and manufacturing; 21% agriculture fishing forestry | 16,900,000; 52% | | | |
24 | | Myanmar | 16,036,000; agriculture 65 | .2% industry 14 | | |
25 | | Iran | 15,400,000; agriculture 33% manufacturing 21%; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
26 | | Egypt | 15,000,000 | | | |
27 | | Zaire | 15,000,000; agriculture 75% industry 13% services 12%; wage earners 13% | | | |
28 | | Spain | 14,621,000; services 53% industry 24% agriculture 14% construction 9% | | | |
29 | | Canada | 13,380,000; services 75% manufacturing 14% agriculture 4% construction 3% other 4% | | | |
30 | | Colombia | 12,000,000 | | | |
31 | | South Africa | 11,000,000 economically active | | | |
32 | | Romania | 10,945,700; industry 38% agriculture 28% other 34% | | | |
33 | | Argentina | 10,900,000; agriculture 12% industry 31% services 57% | | | |
34 | | North Korea | 9,615,000; agricultural 36% nonagricultural 64%; shortage of skilled and unskilled labor | | | |
35 | | Kenya | 9,200,000 | | | |
36 | | Australia | 8,630,000 | | | |
37 | | Nepal | 8,500,000 | | | |
38 | | Kazakhstan | 8,267,000 | | | |
39 | | Uzbekistan | 7,941,000; agriculture and forestry 39% industry and construction 24% other 37% | | | |
40 | | Taiwan | 7,900,000; industry and commerce 53% services 22% agriculture 15 | .6% civil administration 7% | | |
41 | | Morocco | 7,400,000; agriculture 50% services 26% industry 15% other 9% | | | |
42 | | Malaysia | 7,258,000 | | | |
43 | | Peru | 6,800,000 | | | |
44 | | Sri Lanka | 6,600,000; agriculture 45 | .9% mining and manufacturing 13 | | |
45 | | Sudan | 6,500,000; agriculture 80% industry and commerce 10% government 6%; labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled employment | | | |
46 | | Venezuela | 5,800,000; services 56% industry 28% agriculture 16% | | | |
47 | | Côte d'Ivoire | 5,718,000; 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 | | | |
48 | | Belarus | 5,418,000; industry and construction 42% agriculture and forestry 20% other 38% | | | |
49 | | Hungary | 5,400,000 | | | |
50 | | The Netherlands | 5,300,000; services 50 | .1% manufacturing and construction 28 | | |
51 | | Saudi Arabia | 5,000,000; about 60% are foreign workers; government 34% industry and oil 28% services 22% and agriculture 16% | | | |
52 | | Afghanistan | 4,980,000; agriculture and animal husbandry 67 | .8% industry 10 | | |
53 | | Madagascar | 4,900,000; 90% nonsalaried family workers engaged in subsistence agriculture; 175,000 wage earners - agriculture 26% domestic service 17% industry 15% commerce 14% construction 11% services 9% transportation 6% other 2%; 51% of population of working age | | | |
54 | | Chile | 4,728,000; services 38 | .3% | | |
55 | | Portugal | 4,605,700; services 45% industry 35% agriculture 20% | | | |
56 | | Sweden | 4,552,000 community social and personal services 38 | .3% mining and manufacturing 21 | | |
57 | | Uganda | 4,500,000 | | | |
58 | | Iraq | 4,400,000 | | | |
59 | | Bulgaria | 4,300,000; industry 33% agriculture 20% other 47% | | | |
60 | | Belgium | 4,126,000; services 63 | .6% industry 28% construction 6 | | |
61 | | Algeria | 3,700,000; industry and commerce 40% agriculture 24% government 17% services 10% | | | |
62 | | Ghana | 3,700,000; agriculture and fishing 54 | .7% industry 18 | | |
63 | | Greece | 3,657,000; services 44% agriculture 27% manufacturing and mining 20% construction 6% | | | |
64 | | Rwanda | 3,600,000; agriculture 93% government and services 5% industry and commerce 2%; 49% of population of working age | | | |
65 | | Cuba | 3,578,800 in state sector; services and government 30% industry 22% agriculture 20% commerce 11% construction 10% transportation and communications 7% | | | |
66 | | Austria | 3,470,000 | | | |
67 | | Switzerland | 3,310,000; 904,095 foreign workers mostly Italian; services 50% industry and crafts 33% government 10% agriculture and forestry 6% other 1% | | | |
68 | | Burkina Faso | 3,300,000 residents; 30,000 are wage earners; agriculture 82% industry 13% commerce services and government 5%; 20% of male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment | | | |
69 | | Zimbabwe | 3,100,000; agriculture 74% transport and services 16% mining manufacturing construction 10% | | | |
70 | | Georgia | 2,834,000; agriculture 29 | .1% | | |
71 | | Ecuador | 2,800,000; agriculture 35% manufacturing 21% commerce 16% services and other activities 28% | | | |
72 | | Hong Kong | 2,800,000 | | | |
73 | | Azerbaijan | 2,789,000; agriculture and forestry 32% industry and construction 26% other 42% | | | |
74 | | Angola | 2,783,000 economically active; agriculture 85% industry 15% | | | |
75 | | Mali | 2,666,000 | | | |
76 | | Serbia and Montenegro | 2,640,909; industry mining 40% agriculture 5% | | | |
77 | | Denmark | 2,581,400; private services 36 | .4%; government services 30 | | |
78 | | Finland | 2,533,000; public services 30 | .4%; industry 20 | | |
79 | | Senegal | 2,509,000; 77% subsistence agricultural workers; 175,000 wage earners - private sector 40% government and parapublic 60%; 52% of population of working age | | | |
80 | | Niger | 2,500,000 wage earners | | | |
81 | | Cambodia | 2,500,000 | | | |
82 | | Guatemala | 2,500,000; agriculture 60% services 13% manufacturing 12% commerce 7% construction 4% transport 3% utilities 0 | .8% mining 0 | | |
83 | | Zambia | 2,455,000; agriculture 85%; mining manufacturing and construction 6%; transport and services 9% | | | |
84 | | Syria | 2,400,000; miscellaneous and government services 36% agriculture 32% industry and construction 32%; majority unskilled; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
85 | | Guinea | 2,400,000 | | | |
86 | | Dominican Republic | 2,300,000 to 2,600,000; agriculture 49% services 33% industry 18% | | | |
87 | | Haiti | 2,300,000; agriculture 66% services 25% industry 9%; shortage of skilled labor unskilled labor abundant | | | |
88 | | Tunisia | 2,250,000; agriculture 32%; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
89 | | Somalia | 2,200,000; very few are skilled laborers; pastoral nomad 70% agriculture government trading fishing handicrafts and other 30%; 53% of population of working age | | | |
90 | | Norway | 2,167,000 | | | |
91 | | Moldova | 2,095,000; agriculture 34 | .4% industry 20 | | |
92 | | Tajikistan | 1,938,000; agriculture and forestry 43% industry and construction 22% other 35% | | | |
93 | | Benin | 1,900,000 | | | |
94 | | Burundi | 1,900,000 | | | |
95 | | Kyrgyzstan | 1,894,000 | | | |
96 | | Lithuania | 1,836,000; industry and construction 42% agriculture and forestry 18% other 40% | | | |
97 | | El Salvador | 1,700,000 | | | |
98 | | Bolivia | 1,700,000; agriculture 50% services and utilities 26% manufacturing 10% mining 4% other 10% | | | |
99 | | Armenia | 1,630,000; industry and construction 42% agriculture and forestry 18% other 40% | | | |
100 | | New Zealand | 1,603,500 | | | |
101 | | Turkmenistan | 1,542,000; agriculture and forestry 42% industry and construction 21% other 37% | | | |
102 | | Croatia | 1,509,489; industry and mining 37% agriculture 4% government NA% other | | | |
103 | | Albania | 1,500,000 | | | |
104 | | Singapore | 1,485,800; financial business and other services 30 | .2% manufacturing 28 | | |
105 | | Paraguay | 1,418,000 | | | |
106 | | Latvia | 1,407,000; industry and construction 41% agriculture and forestry 16% other 43% | | | |
107 | | Israel | 1,400,000 | | | |
108 | | Sierra Leone | 1,369,000 | | | |
109 | | Uruguay | 1,355,000 | | | |
110 | | Ireland | 1,333,000; services 57 | .0% manufacturing and construction 26 | | |
111 | | Honduras | 1,300,000; agriculture 62% services 20% manufacturing 9% construction 3% other 6% | | | |
112 | | Nicaragua | 1,086,000; service 43% agriculture 44% industry 13% | | | |
113 | | Puerto Rico | 1,068,000; government 28% manufacturing 15% trade 14% agriculture 3% other 40% | | | |
114 | | Jamaica | 1,062,100; services 41% agriculture 22 | .5% industry 19%; unemployed 17 | | |
115 | | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,026,254; 2% agriculture industry mining 45% | | | |
116 | | Libya | 1,000,000 includes about 280,000 resident foreigners; industry 31% services 27% government 24% agriculture 18% | | | |
117 | | Laos | 1,000,000 | | | |
118 | | Costa Rica | 868,300; industry and commerce 35 | .1% government and services 33% agriculture 27% other 4 | | |
119 | | Estonia | 796,000; industry and construction 42% agriculture and forestry 13% other 45% | | | |
120 | | Slovenia | 786,036; 2% agriculture manufacturing and mining 46% | | | |
121 | | Central African Republic | 775,413 | | | |
122 | | Panama | 770,472 | | | |
123 | | industry and commerce | 732,200 wage earners; 90% agriculture 10% | | | |
124 | | Lesotho | 689,000 economically active; 86 | .2% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 60% of active male labor force works in South Africa | | |
125 | | Lebanon | 650,000; industry commerce and services 79% agriculture 11% government 10% | | | |
126 | | United Arab Emirates | 580,000 | | | |
127 | | Jordan | 572,000 | | | |
128 | | Kuwait | 566,000 | | | |
129 | | Liberia | 510,000 including 220,000 in the monetary economy; agriculture 70 | .5% services 10 | | |
130 | | Macedonia | 507,324; by occupation: agriculture 8% manufacturing and mining 40% | | | |
131 | | Namibia | 500,000; agriculture 60% industry and commerce 19% services 8% government 7% mining 6% | | | |
132 | | Mauritania | 465,000 | | | |
133 | | Trinidad and Tobago | 463,900; construction and utilities 18 | .1%; manufacturing mining and quarrying 14 | | |
134 | | Oman | 430,000; agriculture 60% | | | |
135 | | Malawi | 428,000 wage earners; agriculture 43% manufacturing 16% personal services 15% commerce 9% construction 7% miscellaneous services 4% other permanently employed 6% | | | |
136 | | Guinea-Bissau | 403,000 | | | |
137 | | The Gambia | 400,000 | | | |
138 | | Botswana | 400,000; 198,500 formal sector employees most others are engaged in cattle raising and subsistence agriculture | | | |
139 | | Mauritius | 335,000; government services 29% agriculture and fishing 27% manufacturing 22% other 22%; 43% of population of working age | | | |
140 | | Guyana | 268,000; industry and commerce 44 | .5% agriculture 33 | | |
141 | | Fiji | 235,000; subsistence agriculture 67% wage earners 18% salary earners 15% | | | |
142 | | Swaziland | 195,000; over 60,000 engaged in subsistence agriculture; about 92,000 wage earners | | | |
143 | | Macau | 180,000 | | | |
144 | | Luxembourg | 177,300; one-third of labor force is foreign workers mostly from Portugal Italy France Belgium and FRG; services 65% industry 31 | .6% agriculture 3 | | |
145 | | Equatorial Guinea | 172,000 | | | |
146 | | Bahrain | 140,000; 42% of labor force is Bahraini; industry and commerce 85% agriculture 5% services 5% government 3% | | | |
147 | | Comoros | 140,000 | | | |
148 | | Iceland | 134,429; commerce finance and services 55 | .4% other manufacturing 14 | | |
149 | | The Bahamas | 127,400; government 30% hotels and restaurants 25% business services | | | |
150 | | Malta | 127,200; government | | | |
151 | | Barbados | 120,900 | | | |
152 | | Gabon | 120,000 salaried; agriculture 65 | .0% industry and commerce 30 | | |
153 | | services government and commerce 25.8% | 120,000; 53 | .0% | | |
154 | | Suriname | 104,000 | | | |
155 | | Qatar | 104,000; 85% non-Qatari in private sector | | | |
156 | | Cabo Verde | 102,000 | | | |
157 | | Martinique | 100,000; service industry 31 | .7% construction and public works 29 | | |
158 | | Netherlands Antilles | 89,000; government 65% industry and commerce 28% | | | |
159 | | Brunei | 89,000 | | | |
160 | | Congo | 79,100 wage earners; agriculture 75% commerce industry and government 25%; 51% of population of working age; 40% of population economically active | | | |
161 | | French Polynesia | 76,630 employed | | | |
162 | | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 67,000 | | | |
163 | | Maldives | 66,000 | | | |
164 | | Belize | 51,500; agriculture 30 | .0% services 16 | | |
165 | | Wallis and Futuna Vanuatu and French Polynesia | 50,469; foreign workers for plantations and mines from | | | |
166 | | Guam | 46,930; federal and territorial government 40% private 60% | | | |
167 | | U.S. Virgin Islands | 45,500 | | | |
168 | | Saint Lucia | 43,800; agriculture 43 | .4% services 38 | | |
169 | | Western Samoa | 38,000; 22,000 employed in agriculture | | | |
170 | | Grenada | 36,000; services 31% agriculture 24% construction 8% manufacturing 5% other 32% | | | |
171 | | Bermuda | 32,000; clerical 25% services 22% laborers 21% professional and technical 13% administrative and managerial 10% sales 7% agriculture and fishing 2% | | | |
172 | | Antigua and Barbuda | 30,000; commerce and services 82% agriculture 11% industry 7% | | | |
173 | | Seychelles | 27,700; industry and commerce 31% services 21% government 20% agriculture forestry and fishing 12% other 16% | | | |
174 | | Isle of Man | 25,864 | | | |
175 | | Dominica | 25,000; agriculture 40% industry and commerce 32% services 28% | | | |
176 | | Solomon Islands | 23,448 economically active; agriculture forestry and fishing 32 | .4%; services 25%; construction manufacturing and mining 7 | | |
177 | | French Guiana | 23,265; services government and commerce 60 | .6% industry 21 | | |
178 | | Greenland | 22,800; largely engaged in fishing hunting sheep breeding; Organized labor: NA; Long-form name: none | | | |
179 | | São Tomé and Príncipe | 21,096 | | | |
180 | | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 20,000 | | | |
181 | | Austria and Switzerland to work each day; industry trade and building 53.2% services 45% agriculture fishing forestry and horticulture 1.8% | 19,905 of which 11,933 are foreigners; 6,885 commute from | | | |
182 | | Faroe Islands | 17,585; largely engaged in fishing manufacturing transportation and commerce | | | |
183 | | American Samoa | 14,400 | | | |
184 | | Northern Mariana Islands | 12,788 local; 18,799 foreign workers | | | |
185 | | Western Sahara | 12,000; 50% animal husbandry and subsistence farming | | | |
186 | | Cayman Islands | 8,061; service workers 18 | .7% clerical 18 | | |
187 | | Kiribati | 7,870 economically active not including subsistence farmers | | | |
188 | | Cook Islands | 5,810; agriculture 29% government 27% services 25% industry 15% and other 4% | | | |
189 | | Montserrat | 5,100; community social and personal services 40 | .5% construction 13 | | |
190 | | British Virgin Islands | 4,911 | | | |
191 | | Marshall Islands | 4,800 | | | |
192 | | Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | 2,850 | | | |
193 | | Anguilla | 2,780 | | | |
194 | | Falkland Islands | 1,100 | | | |
195 | | Niue | 1,000 | | | |
196 | | Mozambique | NA but 90% engaged in agriculture | | | |
197 | | Andorra | NA | | | |
198 | | Monaco | NA | | | |
199 | | Mongolia | NA but primarily herding/agricultural; over half the adult population is in the labor force including a large percentage of women; shortage of skilled labor | | | |
200 | | San Marino | about 4,300 | | | |
201 | | Saint Helena | NA | | | |
202 | | Vanuatu | NA | | | |
203 | | Gibraltar | about 14,800 | | | |
204 | | Wallis and Futuna | NA | | | |
205 | | Aruba | NA but most employment is in the tourist industry | | | |
206 | | West Bank | NA; excluding Israeli Jewish settlers - small industry commerce and business 29 | .8% construction 24 | | |
207 | | Réunion | NA; agriculture 30% industry 21% services 49% | | | |
208 | | Pitcairn Islands | NA; no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing | | | |
209 | | Yemen | North - NA number of workers with agriculture and herding 70% and expatriate laborers 30% | | | |
210 | | Cameroon | NA; agriculture 74 | .4% industry and transport 11 | | |
211 | | Nauru | NA | | | |
212 | | Cyprus | Greek area - 278,000; services 45% industry 35% agriculture 14%; Turkish area - 71,500 | | | |
213 | | Mayotte | NA | | | |
214 | | Bhutan | NA; agriculture 93% services 5% industry and commerce 2%; massive lack of skilled labor | | | |
215 | | Tokelau | NA | | | |
216 | | Svalbard | NA | | | |
217 | | Norfolk Island | NA | | | |
218 | | Papua New Guinea | NA | | | |
219 | | Djibouti | NA but a small number of semiskilled laborers at the port and 3,000 railway workers; 52% of population of working age | | | |
220 | | Cocos Islands | NA | | | |
221 | | Togo | NA; agriculture 78% industry 22%; about 88,600 wage earners evenly divided between public and private sectors; 50% of population of working age | | | |
222 | | Tonga | NA; 70% agriculture; 600 engaged in mining | | | |
223 | | Chad | NA; agriculture | | | |
224 | | Company of Christmas Island Ltd. | NA; all workers are employees of the Phosphate Mining | | | |
225 | | Federated States of Micronesia | NA; two-thirds are government employees; 45,000 people are between the ages of 15 and 65 | | | |
226 | | Holy See | high dignitaries priests nuns guards and 3,000 lay workers who live outside the Vatican | | | |
227 | | Guernsey | NA | | | |
228 | | Turks and Caicos Islands | NA; majority engaged in fishing and tourist industries; some subsistence agriculture | | | |
229 | | Tuvalu | NA | | | |
230 | | Jersey | NA | | | |