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Central America and the Caribbean > Antigua and Barbuda > Labor

ANTIGUAN-BARBUDAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 2.5 % Time series [44th of 86]
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male employment 5.3 % Time series [45th of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 6.6 % Time series [61st of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 29 % Time series [44th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 87.4 % Time series [4th of 86]
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 62.5 % Time series [12th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 4 % Time series [61st of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 18.6 % Time series [68th of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 74 % Time series [6th of 94]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 52.3 weeks of wages Time series [62nd of 164]
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Date March 17, 1983
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Minimum age 16 [3rd of 146]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date February 2, 1983
Rigidity of employment index 10 Time series [153rd of 166]
Unemployment rate 11% Time series [18th of 107]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 5.6 % Time series [51st of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 6.4 % Time series [37th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 6 % Time series [43rd of 101]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 13.1 % Time series [31st of 77]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 6,000,000 $ Time series [88th of 149]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) 15.323 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [41st of 166]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per capita) 94,776.249 $ per 1,000 people Time series [19th of 167]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 9,000,000 $ Time series [138th of 156]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) 10.277 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [84th of 165]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per capita) 108.714 $ per capita Time series [57th of 167]
Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ 9,400,000 BoP $ Time series [61st of 115]
    Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ (per $ GDP) 24,005.9 BoP $ per $1 million of Time series [39th of 142]
    Workers' remittances, receipts > BoP, current US$ (per capita) 148,482.79 BoP $ per 1,000 people Time series [11th of 143]

SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Minimum Age Convention, 1973 ; Wikipedia: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Antigua and Barbuda, antigua, Antigua-Barbuda

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