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COUNTRY	DESCRIPTION
Aruba	most employment is in wholesale and retail trade and repair, followed by hotels and restaurants; oil refining
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
European Union	the remainder is in miscellaneous public and private sector industries and services
Federated States of Micronesia	0.9% two-thirds are government employees, 34.4%, 64.7%
Holy See (Vatican City)	essentially services with a small amount of industry; nearly all dignitaries, priests, nuns, guards, and the approximately 3,000 lay workers live outside the Vatican
Hong Kong	above data exclude public sector
Nauru	employed in mining phosphates, public administration, education, and transportation
Niue	most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board
Pitcairn Islands	no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing
Sao Tome and Principe	population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing; shortages of skilled workers
Serbia and Montenegro	excluding Kosovo and Montenegro
Turks and Caicos Islands	about 33% in government and 20% in agriculture and fishing; significant numbers in tourism, financial, and other services
Tuvalu	people make a living mainly through exploitation of the sea, reefs, and atolls and from wages sent home by those abroad (mostly workers in the phosphate industry and sailors)
United States	figures exclude the unemployed
Yemen	most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force

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