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Table 113 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.)
Foreign Employment Placements by Agencies and Bureau - 1988
Lab113e
Country High Level Middle Level Skilled Unskilled House Maids Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Total %
Saudi Arabia 33 3 752 19 1,752 45 3,008 222 1,795 7,629 41.40
United Arab Emirates 5 0 145 47 407 1,779 85 244 1,134 3,846 20.87
Bahrain 0 0 12 16 26 6 12 0 339 411 2.23
Oman 1 0 155 34 178 8 8 1 287 672 3.65
Kuwait 3 0 27 1 557 32 741 151 2,784 4,296 23.31
Qatar 0 0 12 0 6 0 0 0 0 18 0.10
Iraq 0 0 5 0 70 0 119 6 1 201 1.09
Jordan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 158 0.86
Singapore 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 6 780 793 4.30
Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 0.11
Greece 11 0 14 1 47 1 24 1 64 163 0.88
United States 2 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 8 0.04
Italy 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.01
Botswana 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.03
India 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.01
P.N.G 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 8 0.04
Maldives 0 0 27 1 34 93 5 24 8 192 1.04
North Yemen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.01
Malawi 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.01
Others 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.01
Total 62 3 1,155 120 3,090 1,968 4,002 655 7,373 18,428 100.00
© 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.