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| Table 150 (Labor, Foreign Employ., Labor Importing Country) | |||||||
| Departures for Unskilled Jobs by Major Labor Importing | |||||||
| Countries - Female | |||||||
| Lab150e | |||||||
| Country | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,067 | 858 | 1,362 | 3,944 | 3,500 | 2,118 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1,270 | 845 | 1,150 | 1,796 | 2,929 | 2,602 | |
| Bahrain | 138 | 127 | 48 | 153 | 181 | 161 | |
| Oman | 64 | 43 | 43 | 50 | 1,626 | 29 | |
| Kuwait | 491 | 563 | 258 | 704 | 1,208 | 1,059 | |
| Qatar | 68 | 65 | 209 | 1,421 | 1,350 | 309 | |
| Jordan | 41 | 22 | 11 | 281 | 926 | 615 | |
| Singapore | 145 | 129 | 162 | 148 | 134 | 156 | |
| Lebanon | 72 | 67 | 73 | 708 | 1,016 | 1,982 | |
| Cyprus | 34 | 102 | 44 | 54 | 51 | 38 | |
| Maldives | 260 | 71 | 96 | 141 | 168 | 33 | |
| South Korea | 104 | 288 | 277 | 234 | 199 | 197 | |
| Italy | 132 | 59 | 18 | 17 | 272 | 12 | |
| Hong Kong | 12 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 40 | 76 | |
| Brunei | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Algeria | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Syria | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Greece | 1 | 4 | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Egypt | 15 | 21 | 9 | 21 | - | - | |
| Seychelles | 1 | 2 | - | 55 | 1 | 3 | |
| United State | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| United Kingdom | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Kenya | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| Malaysia | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | |
| Mauritius | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| France | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Canada | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Others | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 2 | |
| Total | 3,928 | 3,289 | 3,773 | 9,751 | 13,622 | 9,396 | |
| © 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. | |||||||