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Asia > Sri Lanka > Labor

SRI LANKAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 49% [6th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 27.22 [99th of 162]
Female decision makers 4% [68th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 7% [52nd of 156]
Service workers > Male 37% [73rd of 79]
skills > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 21.33 % ... [7th of 38]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 43.67 per million people ... [25th of 49]
Unemployment rate 7.6 % [104th of 182]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 52.8 % ... [3rd of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 61.5 % ... [2nd of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 43.7 % ... [3rd of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 13.5 % ... [16th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 6 % ... [50th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 8.5 % ... [35th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 37.1 % ... [3rd of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 20.1 % ... [16th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 26.2 % ... [8th of 77]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 257,000,000 $ ... [47th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 2,088,000,000 $ ... [34th of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 1,968,490,000 BoP $ ... [21st of 115]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; Economic activity rate and economically active population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details: ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in preparation; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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