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| Table 149 (Labor, Foreign Employ., Labor Importing Country) | |||||||
| Departures for Unskilled Jobs by Major Labor Importing | |||||||
| Countries - Male | |||||||
| Lab149e | |||||||
| Country | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 8,577 | 7,777 | 8,474 | 14,258 | 14,979 | 10,960 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,711 | 1,306 | 1,160 | 1,461 | 3,505 | 4,903 | |
| Bahrain | 300 | 247 | 267 | 420 | 447 | 796 | |
| Oman | 629 | 340 | 213 | 205 | 573 | 344 | |
| Kuwait | 1,672 | 1,825 | 1,220 | 1,343 | 2,252 | 2,033 | |
| Qatar | 2,760 | 3,415 | 3,224 | 4,517 | 5,067 | 4,714 | |
| Jordan | 56 | 50 | 75 | 61 | 78 | 142 | |
| Singapore | 150 | 120 | 109 | 82 | 80 | 60 | |
| Lebanon | 368 | 480 | 516 | 859 | 376 | 370 | |
| Cyprus | 252 | 242 | 151 | 301 | 340 | 352 | |
| Maldives | 1,235 | 576 | 445 | 671 | 929 | 731 | |
| South Korea | 114 | 1,441 | 783 | 202 | 308 | 652 | |
| Italy | 1,442 | 612 | 96 | 108 | 1,015 | 87 | |
| Hong Kong | 56 | 25 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 8 | |
| Brunei | 17 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Algeria | 18 | 16 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Syria | 10 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | |
| Greece | 30 | 24 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 11 | |
| Egypt | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | |
| Seychelles | 12 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 13 | 4 | |
| United State | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | |
| Parkistan | 2 | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | |
| Kenya | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 309 | |
| Mauritius | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | |
| Japan | 9 | 15 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| France | 28 | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Canada | 42 | 4 | - | - | - | - | |
| Switzerland | 12 | 3 | - | - | - | - | |
| Others | 87 | 42 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 9 | |
| Total | 19,630 | 18,640 | 16,792 | 24,553 | 30,027 | 26,509 | |
| © 2004, KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) | |||||||
| Source: | |||||||
| Statistical Hand Book on Migration 2000 , 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. | |||||||