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Labor Statistics > Labor force (per capita) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)    Date  
#1   Solomon Islands: 611,862.572 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#2   Rwanda: 573,243.653 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#3   Kyrgyzstan: 549,305.231 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#4   Samoa: 507,113.678 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#5   Faroe Islands: 505,208.333 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#6   Benin: 501,838.721 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#7   Haiti: 487,061.416 per 1,000 people  1995 ...
#8   Lesotho: 468,810.14 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#9   Madagascar: 450,754.736 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#10   Saint Kitts and Nevis: 443,170.732 per 1,000 people  1995 ...
#11   Ethiopia: 434,360.167 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#12   Grenada: 427,272.727 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#13   Chad: 410,478.107 per 1,000 people  1993 ...
#14   Vanuatu: 407,142.172 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#15   Seychelles: 404,360.286 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#16   Djibouti: 394,640.723 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#17   Guinea-Bissau: 361,517.651 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#18   Dominica: 349,503.705 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#19   Micronesia, Federated States of: 349,325.813 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#20   Gambia, The: 346,604.832 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#21   Puerto Rico: 340,679.787 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#22   Comoros: 290,997.758 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#23   Marshall Islands: 277,917.031 per 1,000 people  2000 ...
#24   Iraq: 266,829.665 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#25   Togo: 259,818.889 per 1,000 people  1998 ...
#26   Sudan: 246,685.794 per 1,000 people  1996 ...
#27   Fiji: 170,690.349 per 1,000 people  1999 ...
#28   Somalia: 894.997 per 1,000 people  1975 ...
#29   Afghanistan: 706.647 per 1,000 people  1984 ...
#30   Antigua and Barbuda: 468.201 per 1,000 people  1991 ...
#31   Sierra Leone: 415.325 per 1,000 people  1981 ...
#32   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 378.184 per 1,000 people  1991 ...
#33   Cape Verde: 339.423 per 1,000 people  1990 ...
#34   São Tomé and Príncipe: 294.459 per 1,000 people  1991 ...
#35   Monaco: 1.317 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#36   San Marino: 0.731 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#37   Kuwait: 0.659 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#38   Azerbaijan: 0.65 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#39   Andorra: 0.641 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#40   United Arab Emirates: 0.618 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#41   Mongolia: 0.617 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#42   Bermuda: 0.609 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#43   China: 0.607 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#44   Tajikistan: 0.582 per 1,000 people  2003 ...
#45   Papua New Guinea: 0.578 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#46   Greenland: 0.564 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#47   Guyana: 0.561 per 1,000 people  2001 ...
#48   Iceland: 0.559 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#49   Bahamas, The: 0.553 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#50   Thailand: 0.55 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#51   Burma: 0.549 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#52   Uzbekistan: 0.545 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#53   Qatar: 0.541 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#54   Macau: 0.539 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#55   Canada: 0.537 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#56   Denmark: 0.535 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#57   Vietnam: 0.534 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#58   Cayman Islands: 0.533 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#59   Germany: 0.525 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#60   Bahrain: 0.523 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#61   Portugal: 0.523 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#62   Hong Kong: 0.52 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#63   Japan: 0.52 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#64   New Zealand: 0.52 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#65   Norway: 0.519 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#66   Russia: 0.519 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#67   Kazakhstan: 0.518 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#68   Cambodia: 0.517 per 1,000 people  2003 ...
#69   Man, Isle of: 0.516 per 1,000 people  2001 ...
#70   Czech Republic: 0.515 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#71   Australia: 0.513 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#72   Switzerland: 0.511 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#73   United States: 0.504 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#74   Singapore: 0.504 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#75   Tanzania: 0.501 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#76   United Kingdom: 0.499 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#77   Finland: 0.498 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#78   Estonia: 0.498 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#79   Sweden: 0.498 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#80   Turkmenistan: 0.494 per 1,000 people  2003 ...
#81   Ireland: 0.488 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#82   Korea, South: 0.487 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#83   Palau: 0.486 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#84   Slovakia: 0.486 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#85   Brazil: 0.485 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#86   Latvia: 0.483 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#87   Brunei: 0.483 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#88   Barbados: 0.482 per 1,000 people  2001 ...
#89   Ukraine: 0.482 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#90   Ghana: 0.48 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#91   Spain: 0.476 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#92   Trinidad and Tobago: 0.475 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#93   Mozambique: 0.475 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#94   Lithuania: 0.472 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#95   Bangladesh: 0.47 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#96   Venezuela: 0.463 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#97   Gabon: 0.462 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#98   Netherlands: 0.461 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#99   Slovenia: 0.46 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#100   Bolivia: 0.46 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#101   Netherlands Antilles: 0.458 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#102   Mauritius: 0.458 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#103   Uganda: 0.457 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#104   France: 0.455 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#105   Belgium: 0.455 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#106   India: 0.454 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#107   Paraguay: 0.454 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#108   Georgia: 0.452 per 1,000 people  2004 ...
#109   Jamaica: 0.452 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#110   Colombia: 0.45 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#111   Poland: 0.448 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#112   Philippines: 0.442 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#113   Belarus: 0.44 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#114   Burundi: 0.439 per 1,000 people  2002 ...
#115   Uruguay: 0.439 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#116   Luxembourg: 0.438 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#117   Dominican Republic: 0.438 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#118   Nigeria: 0.435 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#119   Macedonia, Republic of: 0.433 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#120   Bulgaria: 0.432 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#121   Panama: 0.43 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#122   Romania: 0.43 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#123   Indonesia: 0.427 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#124   Korea, North: 0.427 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#125   Greece: 0.425 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#126   Austria: 0.424 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#127   Costa Rica: 0.421 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#128   Malaysia: 0.421 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#129   Mexico: 0.421 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#130   Cameroon: 0.42 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#131   Lebanon: 0.419 per 1,000 people  2005 ...
#132   Aruba: 0.419 per 1,000 people  2004 ...