| Country | LABOR FORCE |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan |
7.983 million (2013 est.) |
| Albania |
1.122 million (2015 est.) |
| Algeria |
11.93 million (2015 est.) |
| American Samoa |
16,090 (2013) |
| Andorra |
36,060 (2012) |
| Angola |
10.51 million (2015 est.) |
| Anguilla |
6,049 (2001) |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
30,000 (1991) |
| Argentina |
17.47 million note: urban areas only (2015 est.) |
| Armenia |
1.56 million (2015 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 |
12.5 million (2015 est.) |
| Austria |
3.889 million (2015 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
4.899 million (2015 est.) |
| Bahamas, The |
196,900 (2013 est.) |
| Bahrain |
786,100 note: excludes unemployed; 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (2015 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
81.95 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances were $15 billion in 2015, 8% of GDP (2015 est.) |
| Barbados |
142,000 (2015 est.) |
| Belarus |
4.546 million (2013 est.) |
| Belgium |
5.247 million (2015 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 |
348,800 note: major shortage of skilled labor (2015 est.) |
| Bolivia |
4.915 million (2015 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1.47 million (2015 est.) |
| Botswana |
1.155 million (2015 est.) |
| Brazil |
109.2 million (2015 est.) |
| British Virgin Islands |
12,770 (2004) |
| Brunei |
203,600 (2014 est.) |
| Bulgaria |
2.552 million note: number of employed persons (2015 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
7.692 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2013 est.) |
| Burma |
36.18 million (2015 est.) |
| Burundi |
5.119 million (2015 est.) |
| Cabo Verde |
196,100 (2007 est.) |
| Cambodia |
7.974 million (2013 est.) |
| Cameroon |
9.379 million (2015 est.) |
| Canada |
19.28 million (2015 est.) |
| Cayman Islands |
39,000 note: nearly 55% are non-nationals (2007 est.) |
| Central African Republic |
2.358 million (2015 est.) |
| Chad |
5.268 million (2015 est.) |
| Chile |
8.635 million (2015 est.) |
| China |
806.3 million note: by the end of 2012, China's population at working age (15-64 years) was 1.004 billion (2015 est.) |
| Christmas Island |
NA |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
NA |
| Colombia |
24.17 million (2015 est.) |
| Comoros |
245,200 (2013 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
30.05 million (2015 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
1.807 million (2013 est.) |
| Cook Islands |
6,820 (2001) |
| Costa Rica |
2.268 million note: official estimate; excludes Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica (2015 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
8.34 million (2015 est.) |
| Croatia |
1.677 million (2015 est.) |
| Cuba |
5.111 million note: state sector 72.3%, non-state sector 27.7% (2015 est.) |
| Curacao |
73,010 (2013) |
| Cyprus |
424,400 (2015 est.) |
| Czechia |
5.517 million (2015 est.) |
| Denmark |
2.801 million (2015 est.) |
| Djibouti |
294,600 (2012) |
| Dominica |
25,000 (2000 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
5.012 million (2015 est.) |
| Ecuador |
4.873 million (2015 est.) |
| Egypt |
31.14 million (2015 est.) |
| El Salvador |
2.774 million (2015 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
195,200 (2007 est.) |
| Eritrea |
2.542 million (2015 est.) |
| Estonia |
683,200 (2015 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
49.27 million (2015 est.) |
| European Union |
232.2 million (2015 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
1,944 (2012 est.) |
| Faroe Islands |
25,000 (2015 est.) |
| Fiji |
347.7 (2015 est.) |
| Finland |
2.689 million (2015 est.) |
| France |
30.41 million (2015 est.) |
| French Polynesia |
114,300 (2012 est.) |
| Gabon |
660,900 (2015 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
777,100 (2007 est.) |
| Gaza Strip |
1.106 million note: excludes the West Bank (2015 est.) |
| Georgia |
1.959 million (2011 est.) |
| Germany |
45 million (2015 est.) |
| Ghana |
11.7 million (2015 est.) |
| Gibraltar |
22,910 (2013 est.) |
| Greece |
4.791 million (2015 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 |
4.528 million (2015 est.) |
| Guernsey |
31,470 (March 2006) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
731,300 (2013 est.) |
| Guinea |
5.199 million (2015 est.) |
| Guyana |
313,800 (2013 est.) |
| Haiti |
4.594 million note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2014 est.) |
| Holy See (Vatican City) |
2,885 (December 2011) |
| Honduras |
3.573 million (2015 est.) |
| Hong Kong |
3.926 million (2015 est.) |
| Hungary |
4.519 million (2015 est.) |
| Iceland |
191,400 (2015 est.) |
| India |
501.8 million (2015 est.) |
| Indonesia |
122.4 million (2015 est.) |
| Iran |
29.07 million note: shortage of skilled labor (2015 est.) |
| Iraq |
8.9 million (2010 est.) |
| Ireland |
2.171 million (2015 est.) |
| Isle of Man |
41,790 (2006) |
| Israel |
3.846 million (2015 est.) |
| Italy |
25.5 million (2015 est.) |
| Jamaica |
1.309 million (2015 est.) |
| Japan |
65.98 million (2015 est.) |
| Jersey |
53,380 (June 2012) |
| Jordan |
2.055 million (2015 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
8.989 million (2015 est.) |
| Kenya |
18.07 million (2015 est.) |
| Kiribati |
39,000 note: economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2010 est.) |
| Korea, North |
14 million note: estimates vary widely (2014 est.) |
| Korea, South |
26.91 million (2015 est.) |
| Kosovo |
483,200 note: includes those estimated to be employed in the grey economy (2013 est.) |
| Kuwait |
2.473 million note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 60% of the labor force (2015 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
2.732 million (2015 est.) |
| Laos |
3.438 million (2015 est.) |
| Latvia |
973,700 (2015 est.) |
| Lebanon |
1.628 million note: does not include as many as 1 million foreign workers, nor refugees (2013 est.) |
| Lesotho |
905,600 (2015 est.) |
| Liberia |
1.604 million (2015 est.) |
| Libya |
1.193 million (2015 est.) |
| Liechtenstein |
35,830 (2012) note: 51% of the labor force in Liechtenstein commute daily from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany (2012 est.) |
| Lithuania |
1.469 million (2015 est.) |
| Luxembourg |
260,700 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 (2015 est.) |
| Macau |
403,500 (2015 est.) |
| Macedonia |
954,900 (2015 est.) |
| Madagascar |
12.57 million (2015 est.) |
| Malawi |
5.747 million (2007 est.) |
| Malaysia |
14.52 million (2015 est.) |
| Maldives |
195,100 (2014) |
| Mali |
6.096 million (2015 est.) |
| Malta |
196,600 (2015 est.) |
| Marshall Islands |
10,670 (2013 est.) |
| Mauritania |
1.318 million (2015 est.) |
| Mauritius |
614,300 (2015 est.) |
| Mexico |
52.91 million (2015 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
37,920 (2010 est.) |
| Moldova |
1.228 million (2015 est.) |
| Monaco |
52,000 note: includes all foreign workers (2014 est.) |
| Mongolia |
1.164 million (2015 est.) |
| Montenegro |
263,200 (2014 est.) |
| Montserrat |
4,521 (2012) |
| Morocco |
12.04 million (2015 est.) |
| Mozambique |
12.92 million (2015 est.) |
| Namibia |
1.188 million (2015 est.) |
| Nauru |
NA |
| Nepal |
15.2 million note: severe lack of skilled labor (2013 est.) |
| Netherlands |
7.895 million (2015 est.) |
| New Caledonia |
106,400 (2010 est.) |
| New Zealand |
2.501 million (2015 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
2.98 million (2015 est.) |
| Nigeria |
57.27 million (2015 est.) |
| Niger |
6.3 million (2015 est.) |
| Niue |
663 (2001) |
| Norfolk Island |
978 (2006) |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
27,970 note: includes foreign workers (2010 est.) |
| Norway |
2.772 million (2015 est.) |
| Oman |
968,800 note: about 60% of the labor force is non-national (2007 est.) |
| Pakistan |
63.34 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2015 est.) |
| Palau |
10,470 (2014) |
| Panama |
1.587 million note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2015 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea |
4.267 million (2015 est.) |
| Paraguay |
3.247 million (2015 est.) |
| Peru |
16.64 million note: individuals older than 14 years of age (2015 est.) |
| Philippines |
41.76 million (2015 est.) |
| Pitcairn Islands |
15 (2004) |
| Poland |
17.76 million (2015 est.) |
| Portugal |
5.195 million (2015 est.) |
| Puerto Rico |
1.139 million (December 2014 est) |
| Qatar |
1.644 million (2015 est.) |
| Romania |
9.159 million (2015 est.) |
| Russia |
76.58 million (2015 est.) |
| Rwanda |
5.852 million (2015 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 |
49,180 (2013 est.) |
| San Marino |
21,960 (September 2013 es) |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
68,640 (2015 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
11.67 million note: about 80% of the labor force is non-national (2015 est.) |
| Senegal |
6.521 million (2015 est.) |
| Serbia |
2.9 million (2015 est.) |
| Seychelles |
39,560 (2006 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
2.56 million (2015 est.) |
| Singapore |
3.611 million note: excludes non-residents (2015 est.) |
| Sint Maarten |
23,200 (2008 est.) |
| Slovakia |
2.719 million (2015 est.) |
| Slovenia |
917,400 (2015 est.) |
| Solomon Islands |
202,500 (2007 est.) |
| Somalia |
3.109 million (2013 est.) |
| South Africa |
21.09 million (2015 est.) |
| Spain |
22.92 million (2015 est.) |
| Sri Lanka |
8.928 million (2015 est.) |
| Sudan |
11.92 million (2007 est.) |
| Suriname |
165,600 (2007 est.) |
| Svalbard |
1,590 (2013) |
| Swaziland |
446,100 (2013 est.) |
| Sweden |
5.224 million (2015 est.) |
| Switzerland |
5.105 million (2015 est.) |
| Syria |
3.577 million (2015 est.) |
| Taiwan |
11.64 million (2015 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
2.209 million (2013 est.) |
| Tanzania |
26.11 million (2015 est.) |
| Thailand |
38.55 million (2015 est.) |
| Timor-Leste |
259,800 (2013 est.) |
| Togo |
2.595 million (2007 est.) |
| Tokelau |
440 (2001) |
| Tonga |
33,800 (2011 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
649,100 (2015 est.) |
| Tunisia |
4.014 million (2015 est.) |
| Turkey |
29.67 million note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (2015 est.) |
| Turkmenistan |
2.305 million (2013 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
4,848 (1990 est.) |
| Tuvalu |
3,615 (2004 est.) |
| Uganda |
18.42 million (2015 est.) |
| Ukraine |
18.1 million (2015 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates |
5.087 million note: expatriates account for about 85% of the workforce (2015 est.) |
| United Kingdom |
33.06 million (2015 est.) |
| United States |
157.1 million note: includes unemployed (2015 est.) |
| Uruguay |
1.725 million (2015 est.) |
| Uzbekistan |
17.54 million (2015 est.) |
| Vanuatu |
115,900 (2007 est.) |
| Venezuela |
14.17 million (2015 est.) |
| Vietnam |
54.45 million (2015 est.) |
| Virgin Islands |
50,580 (2012 est.) |
| Wallis and Futuna |
3,104 (2003) |
| West Bank |
828,000 note: excludes Gaza Strip (2015 est.) |
| Western Sahara |
144,000 (2010 est.) |
| World |
3.395 billion (2015 est.) |
| Yemen |
7.324 million (2015 est.) |
| Zambia |
6.895 million (2015 est.) |
| Zimbabwe |
7.905 million (2015 est.) |