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Table 111 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.)
Foreign Employment Placements by Agencies and Bureau - 1986
Lab111e
Country High Level Middle Level Skilled Unskilled House Maids Others Total
Saudi Arabia 17 760 1,733 4,448 287 2 7,247
United Arab Emirates 5 91 206 279 1,119 0 1,700
Bahrain 1 1 544 883 387 0 1,816
Oman 27 195 406 207 221 7 1,063
Kuwait 1 35 209 133 2,884 8 3,270
Qatar 0 11 39 11 0 0 61
Iraq 0 7 233 75 0 0 315
Libya 0 0 0 76 0 0 76
Jordan 0 0 0 0 40 0 40
Singapore 0 0 0 0 150 0 150
Lebanon 0 2 0 0 27 0 29
Greece 2 8 4 3 16 0 33
United States 4 8 35 2 0 0 49
Zambia 3 8 0 0 0 0 11
Pakistan 0 6 0 0 1 0 7
Maldives 1 1 449 8 0 0 459
Algeria 11 2 30 24 0 0 67
North Yemen 0 4 4 0 32 0 40
Egypt 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Others 2 0 11 0 9 0 22
Total 74 1,139 3,903 6,149 5,174 17 16,456
© 2004, KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) 
Source: 
Statistical Hand Book on Migration 1998 , Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment
Revised:  2003(y)/10(m)/01(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
      Head, Department of Management Studies
      University of Peradeniya.