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Labor Statistics > Background (most recent) by country
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| Brazil |
The biggest Brazilian labour force share is taken by the services industry with a 66% share of its 91 million strong labour force working in that area. The second strongest sector is agriculture, with 20% of the force, while industry accounts for 14%. However, some 14.43% of children between 10 and 14 years old are active in manufacturing industry, while 30% of men over 65 years old are also involved. |
| China |
For a country with the world's largest population, it comes as no surprise that China has the largest total workforce too, at more than 776 million strong. Estimates labour share show 49% of that figure is employed in the agricultural sector, with 29% employed in services an the remaining 22% employed in industry. Almost 45% of that figure represents by women in the workforce, who are highly active. In fact, almost 73% of women aged 15 and above are economically active. |
| France |
France has a total workforce of more than 27 million, the 20th largest globally and the 3rd highest in western Europe. The vast majority of this workforce is employed in the services industry, with a 71.5% share of the workforce in that sector, while 24.4% are employed in the industrial sector. Surprisingly, just 4.1% of the workforce are employed in agriculture. What hard work is done is definitely, as French workers are legally entitled to the most significant vacation time of any nation - 7 weeks off. |
| Germany |
Germany has the 13th largest workforce in the world with just under 41 million people available for employment. The share of workforce for each of the main sectors carries no surprises, with services claiming the majority with 63.8%, industry claiming 33.4% and agriculture accounting for the remaining 2.8%. Despite Germany's economic strength, it still has a high degree of unemployment with an estimated 9.8% of the workforce unemployed in 2004, the 28th highest rate of unemployment. |
| India |
With the 2nd highest population in the world to its name, there can be no surprise that India also has the 2nd biggest labor force at its disposal, with more than 435 million workers on hand. By far the biggest labor share by occupation is taken by the agricultural sector, with 60%, with the services sector claiming 23% and industry accounting for the remaining 17%. Surprisingly, only 35% of the labor force has a primary level education, and just 9.5% of the force a secondary level education. |
| Italy |
With more than 24.4 million people counted amongst its labor force, Italy has the 4th largest in the EU and 22nd in the world. Like many developed nations, it is the services sector that claims the largest share of the labor force, with 63% of workers employed in it. The industrial sector accounts for 32%, while agriculture accounts for just 5% of the total number. However, unemployment is a problem, with Italy having the highest share of a national workforce unemployed amongst 18 developed nations between 2000 and 2002, with 10.3% unemployed. Perhaps more worryingly, they also had the 2nd highest rate of long-term unemployed, of 6.5%, behind Slovakia's 10.2%. |
| Japan |
Japan has the 7th largest labor force, with more than 66.6 million people, behind China's 776 million force. However, share by occupation figures show that the services industry accounting for the vast majority, claiming 67.7%. Industry claims the 2nd highest portion, with 27.8%, while agriculture accounts for just 4.6%. Japanese workers are amongst the hardest working in the world, clocking up an average 1,801 hours worked per year. That figure is second only to Australia (1,814 hours), with the US placed 3rd (1,792 hours). |
| Malaysia |
Malaysia has a strong labor force with 2005 figure putting it at more than 11 million people. The breakdown of those figures provides no great surprise, with the largest occupation of the labor force being the service industry, with manufacturing industry next and agriculture 3rd. What may be surprising is that almost 39% of men, 65 years and older, are still active in the work force. |
| Philippines |
The Philippines has the 14th largest labor force on earth, with 48% employed in services sector, 36% in agriculture and just 16% in industry. Less than one fifth of industrial workers are men. |
| South Africa |
South Africa has a major problem with unemployment, with the 2nd highest unemployment rate in the world, with 27% of the labor force. With a labor force of over 19 million, that is quite a large total. Strangely though, those lucky enough to have a job, work the shortest period of time per day amongst 29 nations. |
| United States |
American are amongst the hardest workers in the world, with 67.6% of the workforce working more than 40 hours per week - only the Japanese providing a higher percentage (75.5%). US workers also registered the 3rd highest total number of hours worked in 2003, with an average of 1,792 hours, behind Australia (1.814) and Japan (1,801). |
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