ent
after consultation with the prime minister and the leader of the
opposition, three other justices are appointed by the president on
the advice of the Judicial Service Commission)
Venezuela:
Supreme Tribunal of Justice or Tribuna Suprema de
Justicia (magistrates are elected by the National Assembly for a
single 12-year term)
Vietnam:
Supreme People's Court (chief justice is elected for a
five-year term by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the
president)
Virgin Islands:
US District Court of the Virgin Islands (under Third
Circuit jurisdiction); Territorial Court (judges appointed by the
governor for 10-year terms)
Wallis and Futuna:
none; justice generally administered under French
law by the high administrator, but the three traditional kings
administer customary law and there is a magistrate in Mata-Utu
Yemen:
Supreme Court
Yugoslavia:
Federal Court or Savezni Sud; Constitutional Court;
judges for both courts are elected by the Federal Assembly for
nine-year terms
Zambia:
Supreme Court (the final court of appeal; justices are
appointed by the president); High Court (has unlimited jurisdiction
to hear civil and criminal cases)
Zimbabwe:
Supreme Court; High Court
Taiwan:
Judicial Yuan (justices appointed by the president with the
consent of the National Assembly; note - beginning in 2003, justices
will be appointed by the president with the consent of the
Legislative Yuan)
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@Labor force
Afghanistan:
10 million (2000 est.)
Albania:
1.692 million (including 352,000 emigrant workers and
261,000 domestically unemployed) (1994 est.)
Algeria:
9.1 million (2000 est.)
American Samoa:
14,000 (1996)
Andorra:
30,787 salaried employees (1998)
Angola:
5 million (1997 est.)
Anguilla:
4,400 (1992)
Antigua and Barbuda:
30,000
Argentina:
15 million (1999)
Armenia:
1.5 million (1999)
Aruba:
41,501 (1997 est.)
Australia:
9.5 million (December 1999)
Austria:
3.7 million (1999)
Azerbaijan:
2.9 million (1997)
Bahamas, The:
156,000 (1999)
Bahrain:
295,000 (1998 est.)
note: 44% of the population in the 15-64 age group is non-national
(July 1998 est.)
Bangladesh:
64.1 million (1998)
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman,
Qatar, and
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