Labor > Labor force > By occupation > Note: Countries Compared
DEFINITION:
This entry lists the percentage distribution of the labor force by occupation. The distribution will total less than 100 percent if the data are incomplete.
COUNTRY |
DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| ArubaAruba | most employment is in wholesale and retail trade and repair, followed by hotels and restaurants; oil refining |
| Cocos (Keeling) IslandsCocos Islands | the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others |
| European UnionEuropean Union | the remainder is in miscellaneous public and private sector industries and services |
| Federated States of MicronesiaMicronesia | 0.9% two-thirds are government employees, 34.4%, 64.7% |
| Holy See (Vatican City)Vatican City | essentially services with a small amount of industry; nearly all dignitaries, priests, nuns, guards, and the approximately 3,000 lay workers live outside the Vatican |
| Hong KongHong Kong | above data exclude public sector |
| NauruNauru | employed in mining phosphates, public administration, education, and transportation |
| NiueNiue | most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board |
| Pitcairn IslandsPitcarn | no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing |
| Sao Tome and PrincipeSoa Tome+ | population mainly engaged in subsistence agriculture and fishing; shortages of skilled workers |
| Serbia and MontenegroSerbia+ | excluding Kosovo and Montenegro |
| Turks and Caicos IslandsTurks+ | about 33% in government and 20% in agriculture and fishing; significant numbers in tourism, financial, and other services |
| TuvaluTuvalu | people make a living mainly through exploitation of the sea, reefs, and atolls and from wages sent home by those abroad (mostly workers in the phosphate industry and sailors) |
| United StatesUnited States | figures exclude the unemployed |
| YemenYemen | most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force |
