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| Table 134 (Labor, Foreign Employ. Place.) | ||||||||||||
| Departure For Foreign Employment Through All Sources - 1996 | , | |||||||||||
| Lab134e | ||||||||||||
| Country | High Level | Middle Level | Skilled | Unskilled | House Maids | Total | ||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Total | % | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 163 | 6 | 1,763 | 118 | 8,259 | 435 | 7,777 | 858 | 30,876 | 50,255 | 32.30 | |
| Kuwait | 10 | 4 | 174 | 90 | 2,776 | 456 | 1,825 | 563 | 35,125 | 41,023 | 26.37 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 72 | 12 | 843 | 176 | 2,048 | 2,821 | 1,307 | 844 | 14,270 | 22,393 | 14.39 | |
| Lebanon | 0 | 2 | 35 | 11 | 97 | 28 | 480 | 67 | 8,903 | 9,623 | 6.19 | |
| Qatar | 85 | 3 | 629 | 14 | 3,667 | 53 | 3,415 | 65 | 1,242 | 9,173 | 5.90 | |
| Oman | 43 | 0 | 204 | 70 | 648 | 394 | 341 | 43 | 3,100 | 4,843 | 3.11 | |
| Jordan | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 9 | 50 | 22 | 3,733 | 3,845 | 2.47 | |
| Bahrain | 21 | 3 | 119 | 20 | 387 | 330 | 247 | 127 | 2,381 | 3,635 | 2.34 | |
| Singapore | 17 | 3 | 41 | 55 | 103 | 11 | 120 | 129 | 2,117 | 2,596 | 1.67 | |
| Maldives | 67 | 6 | 404 | 72 | 806 | 133 | 576 | 71 | 132 | 2,267 | 1.46 | |
| South Korea | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 172 | 21 | 1,268 | 267 | 35 | 1,766 | 1.14 | |
| Italy | 8 | 0 | 59 | 11 | 177 | 20 | 612 | 59 | 508 | 1,454 | 0.93 | |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1 | 24 | 61 | 64 | 15 | 242 | 104 | 834 | 1,346 | 0.87 | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 25 | 9 | 128 | 216 | 0.14 | |
| Mauritius | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 94 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0.08 | |
| Brunei | 7 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 12 | 117 | 0.08 | |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 69 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 112 | 0.07 | |
| Greece | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 24 | 4 | 13 | 86 | 0.06 | |
| Algeria | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 76 | 0.05 | |
| Syria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 39 | 59 | 0.04 | |
| Malaysia | 5 | 0 | 4 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 58 | 0.04 | |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 48 | 0.03 | |
| Seychelles | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 0.03 | |
| South Yemen | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 40 | 0.03 | |
| Palestine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 | 0.02 | |
| United States | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 0.02 | |
| Pakistan | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 26 | 0.02 | |
| North Yemen | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 0.01 | |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 23 | 0.01 | |
| Vietnam | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.01 | |
| Libya | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 0.01 | |
| Botswana | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.01 | |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 0.01 | |
| France | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 0.01 | |
| New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.01 | |
| Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Thailand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Fiji | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Others | 16 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 21 | 102 | 0.07 | |
| Total | 556 | 43 | 4,529 | 786 | 19,550 | 4,777 | 18,469 | 3,269 | 103,593 | 155,572 | 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. | ||||||||||||