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Europe > Portugal > Labor

PORTUGUESE LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 14% [23rd of 77]
Days off work 11 days [16th of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 16.71 [119th of 162]
Female decision makers 32% [25th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 4% [71st of 156]
Long term unemployment 1.7% [14th of 27]
Service workers > Male 44% [61st of 79]
Strikes 20 [20th of 27]
Temporary employment share 20.4% [4th of 26]
Unemployment gender ratio 159% [6th of 30]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 19.1 % ... [25th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 13.7 % ... [35th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 16.1 % ... [29th of 77]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 1,151,000,000 $ ... [28th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 3,017,000,000 $ ... [24th of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 2,825,772,000 BoP $ ... [16th of 115]
Working mothers 70 [4th of 23]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 285 [5th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 7.6 per 100,000 employees [1st of 15]
Youth unemployment 8.6% [21st 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; 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; 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; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Workplace safety ;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa

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