| Countries (A to Z) |
Description |
| Bahrain |
44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) (1998 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99 (1998) |
| Belize |
shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (1997 est.) |
| Bhutan |
massive lack of skilled labor |
| Brunei |
temporary residents make up 41% of labor force (1991) (1999 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (1999) |
| Cuba |
state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (1999) (2000 est.) |
| Haiti |
shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (2001) (1995) |
| Iran |
shortage of skilled labor (1998) |
| Jordan |
in addition, at least 300,000 workers are employed abroad (2001) |
| Kuwait |
68% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) (1998 est.) |
| Lebanon |
in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (1999 est.) (2001 est.) |
| Nepal |
severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.) |
| Pakistan |
extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2000) |
| Panama |
shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor (2000 est.) |
| Saint Helena |
1,200 work offshore (1998 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
35% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 1998 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
only about 65,000 wage earners (1985) (1981 est.) |
| Tunisia |
shortage of skilled labor |
| Turkey |
about 1.2 million Turks work abroad (1999) |
| United Arab Emirates |
73.9% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national (July 2002 est.) (2000 est.) |
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