million (2004 est.)

Japan
66.97 million (2004 est.)

Jersey
52,790 (2004)

Jordan
1.41 million (2004 est.)

Kazakhstan
7.95 million (2004 est.)

Kenya
11.4 million (2004 est.)

Kiribati
7,870 economically active, not including subsistence
farmers (2001 est.)

Korea, North
9.6 million

Korea, South
22.9 million (2004 est.)

Kuwait
1.42 million
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2004 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
2.7 million (2000)

Laos
2.6 million (2001 est.)

Latvia
1.17 million (2004 est.)

Lebanon
2.6 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers
(2001 est.)

Lesotho
838,000 (2000)

Libya
1.59 million (2004 est.)

Liechtenstein
29,000 of whom 19,000 are foreigners; 13,000 commute
from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany to work each day (31 December
2001)

Lithuania
1.63 million (2004 est.)

Luxembourg
293,700 (of whom 105,000 are foreign cross-border workers
commuting primarily from France, Belgium, and Germany) (2004 est.)

Macau
231,500 (3rd Quarter, 2004)

Macedonia
855,000 (2004 est.)

Madagascar
7.3 million (2000)

Malawi
4.5 million (2001 est.)

Malaysia
10.49 million (2004 est.)

Maldives
88,000 (2000)

Mali
3.93 million (2001 est.)

Malta
160,000 (2002 est.)

Man, Isle of
39,690 (2001)

Marshall Islands
28,700 (1996 est.)

Martinique
165,900 (1998)

Mauritania
786,000 (2001)

Mauritius
560,000 (2004 est.)

Mayotte
48,800 (2000)

Mexico
34.73 million (2004 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of
NA

Moldova
1.36 million (2004 est.)

Monaco
30,540 (January 1994)

Mongolia
1.488 million (2003)

Montserrat
4,521 (lowered by flight of people from volcanic
activity) (2000 est.)

Morocco
11.02 million (2004 est.)

Mozambique
9.2 million (2000 est.)

Namibia
840,000 (2004 est.)

Nepal
10 million
note: severe lack of skilled labor (1996 est.)

Netherlands
7.53 million (2004 est.)

Netherlands Antilles
89,000 (2000)

New Caledonia
79,400 (including 15,018 unemployed) (1996)

New Zealand
2.05 million (2004 est.)

Nicaragua
1.93 million (2004 est.)

Niger
70,000 receive regular wages or salaries (2002 est.)

Nigeria
55.67 million (2004 est.)

Niue
NA

Norfolk Island
1,345

Northern Mariana Islands
6,006 total indigenous labor force; 2,6