In 2001 the total workforce in national and state governments and the quasi-government sector was 620,000, and the private sector employed 219,000.
Continuing with the employment of around 30 foreign nurses annually (as in 2004/2005), the total workforce would have lost 140, or 19%, of its nurses by 2010 (Table 3).
According to DOD officials, contractors are expected to make up approximately 50%-55 50%-55e total workforce in Afghanistan in the future, although such an estimate could change if conditions in Afghanistan change.
The company announced that another 1,000 jobs would go, on top of 4,500 cuts already planned making in all 6% of the total workforce.The costs of restructuring and a failed merger with General Electric hit Honeywell.
This is down from the postwar peak, of 19.4 million jobs, in 1979, and of thirty-two per cent of the total workforce, in 1953.
The share of temporary employment has increased in many countries, in some cases to approach one-third of the total workforce (as in Japan and Spain).
In Ho Chi Minh City, 11% of the workforce are street vendors, part of the 51% of the total workforce in the city employed in informal, non-agricultural work, according to government-collected data.
Interestingly, in Africa PhDs account for as many as 26% of the total workforce, against 20% in Asia and 14% in the Americas.
The number of people employed in agriculture also declined substantially, from about one-fifth of the total workforce in 1950 to less than 3 percent by the end of the 20th century.
