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| Table 121 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.) | ||||||||||||
| Departure For Foreign Employment through Agencies and Bureau - 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Lab1121e | ||||||||||||
| Country | High Level | Middle Level | Skilled | Unskilled | House Maids | Total | ||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Total | % | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 111 | 2 | 1,260 | 84 | 6,384 | 400 | 5,427 | 732 | 35,545 | 49,945 | 43.26 | |
| Kuwait | 2 | 2 | 45 | 14 | 1,364 | 361 | 1,046 | 376 | 28,308 | 31,518 | 27.30 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 24 | 4 | 477 | 108 | 1,253 | 2,638 | 429 | 696 | 8,483 | 14,112 | 12.22 | |
| Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 2,648 | 2,679 | 2.32 | |
| Qatar | 69 | 2 | 453 | 10 | 2,566 | 37 | 2,595 | 49 | 714 | 6,495 | 5.63 | |
| Oman | 7 | 0 | 48 | 51 | 347 | 328 | 41 | 23 | 1,212 | 2,057 | 1.78 | |
| Jordan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2,008 | 2,022 | 1.75 | |
| Bahrain | 9 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 185 | 288 | 63 | 107 | 1,405 | 2,092 | 1.81 | |
| Singapore | 9 | 3 | 27 | 35 | 68 | 3 | 37 | 107 | 805 | 1,094 | 0.95 | |
| Maldives | 38 | 2 | 229 | 36 | 478 | 97 | 281 | 54 | 26 | 1,241 | 1.07 | |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,233 | 204 | 0 | 1,437 | 1.24 | |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 44 | 121 | 197 | 0.17 | |
| Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 92 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 0.11 | |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 69 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 0.07 | |
| Algeria | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 0.06 | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 0.05 | |
| Palestine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 | 0.03 | |
| Brunei | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 0.03 | |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 25 | 0.03 | |
| South Yemen | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0.02 | |
| Seychelles | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.02 | |
| North Yemen | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.01 | |
| United States | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.01 | |
| Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0.01 | |
| Thailand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | |
| Greece | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | |
| P.N.G. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0.00 | |
| China | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | |
| Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | |
| Fiji | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Botswana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Libya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Mozambique | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Sudan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Others | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Total | 285 | 18 | 2,711 | 379 | 12,845 | 4,206 | 11,244 | 2,432 | 81,323 | 115,443 | 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. | ||||||||||||