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Arctic Region > Iceland > Labor

ICELANDIC LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 5% [41st of 77]
Days off work 367 days [1st of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 37.98 [75th of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 11.2 % Time series [62nd of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 84.6 % Time series [20th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 7.2 % Time series [53rd of 94]
Female decision makers 27% [39th of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 29.6 % Time series [7th of 52]
force, total 176,805.7 Time series [163rd of 184]
Labor force 181,000 Time series [113rd of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture, fishing and fish processing 10.3%, industry 18.3%, services 71.4%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 23% Time series [13th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 71.8% Time series [6th of 29]
Long term unemployment 0.2% [25th of 27]
Strikes 244 [2nd of 27]
Unemployment gender ratio 158% [7th of 30]
Unemployment rate 1% Time series [91st of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 3.1 % Time series [73rd of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 65,000,000 $ Time series [70th of 149]
Youth unemployment 4.7% [29th of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; 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; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; OECD; calculated on the basis of data on male and female unemployment rates from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook 2001. Paris;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Iceland, Republic of Iceland, Lydhveldidh Island, Island

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