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South America > Venezuela > Labor

VENEZUELAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [64th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 46.92 [63rd of 162]
Female decision makers 24% [49th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 14% [28th of 156]
Service workers > Male 55% [32nd of 79]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 14.4 % ... [33rd of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 20.2 % ... [21st of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 10.5 % ... [35th of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 20.3 % ... [11th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 14.4 % ... [11th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 16.8 % ... [9th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 34.8 % ... [12th of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 23.7 % ... [14th of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 28 % ... [12th of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 15 paid days
Work time > Market-oriented 59% [8th of 29]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 41% [22nd of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 211,000,000 $ ... [50th of 149]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 148,000,000 $ ... [102nd of 156]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 128,000,000 BoP $ ... [64th 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; Wikipedia: Vacation ; Harvey, Andrew S. 1995 ?Market and Non-Market Productive Activity in Less Developed and Developing Countries: Lessons from Time Use.? Background Paper for Human Development Report 1995. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, Goldshmidt-Clermont, Luisella, and Elisabetta Pagnossin Aligisakis. 1995. ?Measures of Unrecorded Economic Activities in Fourteen Countries.? Background paper for Human Development Report

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela, Venezuela, RB

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