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Table 116 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.)
Foreign Employment Placements by Agencies and Bureau - 1991
Lab116e
Country High Level Middle Level Skilled Unskilled House Maids Total
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Total %
Saudi Arabia 77 4 1,331 27 6,721 201 6,967 620 11,239 27,187 41.78
United Arab Emirates 7 0 210 80 487 3,652 262 731 5,393 10,822 16.63
Kuwait 3 0 126 10 1,204 128 1,112 728 13,713 17,024 26.16
Oman 9 0 118 41 283 1,277 36 49 1,632 3,445 5.29
Bahrain 11 0 38 6 208 270 54 41 1,201 1,829 2.81
Maldives 12 0 98 7 730 357 123 142 9 1,478 2.27
Singapore 1 1 3 2 50 3 0 38 762 860 1.32
Jordan 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 481 486 0.75
Brunei 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 0.01
Mauritius 0 0 0 0 4 95 0 0 0 99 0.15
Qatar 2 0 68 4 331 4 311 134 121 975 1.50
Greece 0 0 2 2 13 6 1 35 151 210 0.32
Libya 9 2 16 0 58 0 0 0 99 184 0.28
United States 1 0 37 0 90 0 9 0 0 137 0.21
United Kingdom 1 0 22 0 26 0 0 0 0 49 0.08
Fiji 2 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 3 12 0.02
Zimbabwe 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.01
Cyprus 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 18 15 35 0.01
Malaysia 0 0 13 0 3 1 0 0 0 17 0.03
Zambia 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 9 0.01
Bangladesh 4 0 5 0 4 1 0 0 0 14 0.02
P.N.G. 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0.01
Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
North Yemen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.00
South Africa 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Lebanon 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 67 68 0.10
Malawi 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Others 8 0 12 0 57 0 22 2 0 101 0.20
Total 150 7 2,120 183 10,286 5,995 8,899 2,538 34,890 65,068 100.00
© 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.