Country ranking for field: labor force 1997

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This entry contains the total labor force figure.

	World	0
1	Saudi Arabia	6,000,000
2	Cambodia	2,500,000
3	Dominican Republic	2,300,000
4	Laos	1,000,000
5	Macedonia	total:591,773
6	Mayotte	NA
7	Monaco	total:30,540
8	Mozambique	NA
9	Nauru	by occupation:employed in mining phosphates public administration education and transportation
10	Netherlands Antilles	total:89,000; by occupation:government 65% industry and commerce 28%
11	Palau	NA
12	Qatar	total:233,000
13	Réunion	total:242,169
14	Andorra	NA
15	Kiribati	total:7,870 economically active not including subsistence farmers
16	Suriname	NA
17	Svalbard	NA
18	São Tomé and Príncipe	most of population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing; there are shortages of skilled workers
19	Tokelau	NA
20	Tuvalu	NA
21	Wallis and Futuna	NA
22	West Bank	NA
23	Western Samoa	total:45,635
24	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	total:2,980
25	Holy See	NA
26	Jersey	NA
27	Côte d'Ivoire	NA
28	Benin	NA
29	Bhutan	NA
30	Burkina Faso	NA
31	Cabo Verde	NA
32	Cameroon	NA
33	Central African Republic	NA
34	Chad	NA
35	Cocos Islands	NA
36	Congo	NA
37	Equatorial Guinea	NA
38	Aruba	NA
39	Eritrea	NA
40	Federated States of Micronesia	NA
41	French Guiana	total:46,300
42	Gabon	NA
43	Gaza Strip	NA
44	Greenland	total: 24,500
45	Guernsey	NA
46	Guinea-Bissau	NA
47	Guyana	NA
48	Yemen	no reliable estimates exist most people are employed in agriculture and herding or as expatriate laborers; services construction industry and commerce account for less than one-half of the labor force