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| Table 133 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.) | ||||||||||||
| Departure For Foreign Employment Through All Sources - 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Lab133e | ||||||||||||
| Country | High Level | Middle Level | Skilled | Unskilled | House Maids | Total | ||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Total | % | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 233 | 9 | 1,898 | 35 | 7,904 | 377 | 8,573 | 1,071 | 40,016 | 60,116 | 34.97 | |
| Kuwait | 41 | 6 | 251 | 17 | 2,848 | 369 | 1,667 | 495 | 32,626 | 38,320 | 22.29 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 149 | 10 | 1,252 | 30 | 1,673 | 4,342 | 1,707 | 1,273 | 14,299 | 24,735 | 14.39 | |
| Lebanon | 6 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 79 | 21 | 368 | 72 | 8,952 | 9,537 | 5.55 | |
| Qatar | 78 | 1 | 603 | 8 | 3,804 | 84 | 2,760 | 69 | 1,302 | 8,709 | 5.07 | |
| Oman | 70 | 6 | 812 | 137 | 850 | 1,141 | 627 | 64 | 3,579 | 7,286 | 4.24 | |
| Jordan | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 62 | 56 | 41 | 4,506 | 4,694 | 2.73 | |
| Bahrain | 36 | 0 | 152 | 11 | 436 | 370 | 300 | 138 | 2,733 | 4,176 | 2.43 | |
| Singapore | 23 | 1 | 81 | 48 | 119 | 36 | 151 | 145 | 3,403 | 4,007 | 2.33 | |
| Maldives | 73 | 5 | 559 | 39 | 751 | 466 | 1,234 | 260 | 266 | 3,653 | 2.12 | |
| Italy | 10 | 0 | 135 | 8 | 284 | 25 | 1,434 | 142 | 1,001 | 3,039 | 1.77 | |
| Cyprus | 2 | 0 | 24 | 26 | 89 | 14 | 251 | 34 | 1,048 | 1,488 | 0.87 | |
| Hong Kong | 12 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 79 | 2 | 55 | 13 | 208 | 398 | 0.23 | |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 22 | 74 | 84 | 4 | 223 | 0.13 | |
| Brunei | 19 | 0 | 35 | 4 | 35 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 11 | 122 | 0.07 | |
| Greece | 2 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 32 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 22 | 120 | 0.07 | |
| Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 120 | 0.07 | |
| Algeria | 13 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 113 | 0.07 | |
| United States | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 23 | 94 | 0.05 | |
| Canada | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 42 | 6 | 11 | 88 | 0.05 | |
| France | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 10 | 73 | 0.04 | |
| West Germany | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 11 | 76 | 0.04 | |
| Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 67 | 0.04 | |
| Tanzania | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 43 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 0.03 | |
| Syria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 40 | 54 | 0.03 | |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 0.03 | |
| Seychelles | 4 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 0.02 | |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 36 | 0.02 | |
| Japan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 30 | 0.02 | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 0.02 | |
| Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 0.02 | |
| Bangladesh | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.01 | |
| North Yemen | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 22 | 0.01 | |
| U.S.S.R. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 0.01 | |
| Others | 43 | 2 | 67 | 3 | 60 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 40 | 269 | 0.16 | |
| Total | 843 | 44 | 6,091 | 423 | 19,424 | 7,382 | 19,565 | 3,931 | 114,208 | 171,911 | 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. | ||||||||||||