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Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Labor

PAPUA NEW GUINEAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Compensation of employees > % of expense 27.78 % Time series [37th of 97]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 10-14 17.18 [46th of 89]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 45.97 [64th of 162]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 72.3 % Time series [2nd of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 3.6 % Time series [93rd of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 22.7 % Time series [89th of 94]
Female economic activity growth 0% [104th of 156]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 39 weeks of wages Time series [81st of 164]
force, total 2,573,380 Time series [102nd of 184]
Labor force 3,557,000 Time series [74th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 85%, industry NA, services NA
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 85% Time series [1st of 32]
Regulation 26 [119th of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 57 [90th of 123]
Rigidity of employment index 10 Time series [156th of 166]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 1.3 % Time series [91st of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 4.3 % Time series [70th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 2.8 % Time series [88th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 135,000,000 $ Time series [58th of 149]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 5,673,851 BoP $ Time series [88th of 115]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.

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