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Coastal and Marine Ecosystems — Fisheries: People employed in fishing and aquaculture, number Units: Number

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World
World		12,151,735	16,932,498	27,745,915	34,501,411
		1970	1980	1990	2000
Region/Classification
Asia (excluding Middle East)		8,832,925	13,158,174	23,092,966	28,890,352
Central America & Caribbean		197,861	265,765	381,074	446,390
Europe		..	..	..	855,333
Middle East & North Africa		133,011	207,183	310,340	746,955
North America		209,561	281,453	385,451	303,784
Oceania		41,909	61,462	73,729	85,324
South America		491,559	542,543	768,546	784,051
Sub-Saharan Africa		1,254,645	1,391,570	1,544,967	1,995,694
Developed Countries		1,102,311	1,053,907	1,095,004	1,467,401
Developing Countries		10,484,582	15,217,605	25,842,699	32,640,482
	ISO	1970	1980	1990	2000
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	1,000	1,100	1,500	1,500
Albania	ALB	2,000	2,800	4,005	1,590
Algeria	DZA	3,212	6,400	19,290	26,151
American Samoa	ASM	150	80	95	110
Angola	AGO	14,269	16,250	22,000	30,364
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	800	1,450	640	892
Argentina	ARG	2,652	5,000	7,785	12,320
Armenia	ARM	0	0	0	244
Aruba	ABW	360	360	410	687
Australia	AUS	17,768	14,666	14,700	13,800
Austria	AUT	3,050	2,360	2,500	2,300
Azerbaijan	AZE	0	0	0	1,500
Bahamas	BHS	1,750	585	4,000	4,000
Bahrain	BHR	2,600	4,101	4,658	6,830
Bangladesh	BGD	700,000	1,082,107	1,196,000	1,320,480
Barbados	BRB	2,014	3,000	3,000	3,000
Belarus	BLR	..	..	..	5,000
Belgium	BEL	1,264	894	845	544
Belize	BLZ	1,097	1,055	1,750	1,872
Benin	BEN	105,000	67,200	48,511	61,793
Bermuda	BMU	577	266	271	307
Bhutan	BTN	0	0	450	450
Bolivia	BOL	1,907	1,300	5,224	7,754
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	..	..	..	3,500
Botswana	BWA	300	550	2,620	2,620
Brazil	BRA	270,000	280,736	290,000	290,000
British Virgin Islands	VGB	550	375	72	127
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	1,130	722	1,900	1,355
Bulgaria	BGR	1,075	1,150	1,500	1,483
Burkina Faso	BFA	4,450	5,500	5,000	8,300
Burundi	BDI	3,400	6,600	4,795	7,030
Cambodia	KHM	10,000	13,100	37,695	73,425
Cameroon	CMR	12,360	14,000	21,300	24,500
Canada	CAN	63,145	85,952	89,954	8,696
Cape Verde	CPV	1,532	3,278	4,392	5,183
Cayman Islands	CYM	1,500	1,800	1,800	1,800
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	18,400	25,000	14,000	19,707
Central African Rep	CAF	1,800	1,800	3,000	5,410
Chad	TCD	180,000	115,000	150,000	300,000
Chile	CHL	14,772	37,616	81,912	50,873
China	CHN	2,300,000	2,950,344	9,092,926	12,233,128
Colombia	COL	109,000	103,000	230,000	129,410
Comoros	COM	8,000	8,000	8,000	7,676
Congo	COG	578	843	3,384	10,500
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	66,290	114,000	93,000	108,400
Cook Islands	COK	0	0	210	215
Costa Rica	CRI	2,000	2,500	5,300	6,510
Croatia	HRV	..	..	..	65,151
Cuba	CUB	14,162	15,722	12,130	11,865
Cyprus	CYP	615	869	761	1,159
Czech Rep	CZE	1,300	1,400	2,000	2,243
Denmark	DNK	15,457	14,909	6,945	6,711
Djibouti	DJI	90	75	300	300
Dominica	DMA	1,500	1,500	2,500	2,240
Dominican Rep	DOM	1,269	3,015	10,000	9,286
Ecuador	ECU	11,800	21,294	60,973	162,870
Egypt	EGY	69,413	95,000	230,000	250,000
El Salvador	SLV	5,551	4,721	25,450	24,534
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	1,500	1,510	2,480	9,218
Eritrea	ERI	0	0	0	14,500
Estonia	EST	..	..	..	13,346
Ethiopia	ETH	4,982	2,050	14,000	6,272
Faeroe Islands	FRO	5,310	5,400	3,713	2,924
Falkland Islands	FLK	40	40	81	810
Fiji	FJI	2,000	3,000	4,583	8,985
Finland	FIN	8,844	8,446	6,335	5,879
France	FRA	35,799	22,019	32,622	26,113
French Guiana	GUF	193	250	440	660
French Polynesia	PYF	300	1,250	1,610	2,100
Gabon	GAB	2,500	5,500	5,500	8,258
Gambia	GMB	1,600	734	1,457	2,000
Georgia	GEO	0	0	0	1,900
Germany	DEU	0	0	4,812	4,358
Ghana	GHA	60,866	103,000	110,000	230,000
Gibraltar	GIB	0	0	0	0
Greece	GRC	8,822	10,116	20,152	19,847
Greenland	GRL	5,100	5,100	5,034	4,721
Grenada	GRD	752	1,697	1,749	2,180
Guadeloupe	GLP	1,690	1,500	1,300	1,300
Guam	GUM	62	250	560	560
Guatemala	GTM	6,000	7,000	6,200	17,275
Guinea	GIN	11,500	11,500	10,700	10,707
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	1,527	2,500	2,500	2,500
Guyana	GUY	3,650	6,500	4,031	6,571
Haiti	HTI	5,500	5,500	4,700	4,700
Honduras	HND	2,860	8,400	11,961	21,000
Hong Kong	HKG	50,000	35,700	31,283	24,655
Hungary	HUN	3,630	3,000	3,300	4,900
Iceland	ISL	4,895	5,946	6,551	6,100
India	IND	1,840,000	4,030,337	5,452,594	5,958,744
Indonesia	IDN	841,627	2,231,515	3,617,586	5,118,571
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	23,000	24,412	57,199	138,965
Iraq	IRQ	5,957	8,744	12,000	12,000
Ireland	IRL	5,861	8,824	7,910	8,478
Israel	ISR	2,252	3,000	1,100	1,535
Italy	ITA	65,000	24,903	49,429	48,770
Jamaica	JAM	7,000	10,400	16,900	23,465
Japan	JPN	437,900	376,880	303,400	260,200
Jordan	JOR	97	90	216	721
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0	0	0	16,000
Kenya	KEN	29,895	31,600	40,000	59,565
Kiribati	KIR	800	3,831	6,500	6,500
Korea, Dem People's Rep	PRK	133,000	140,000	129,000	129,000
Korea, Rep	KOR	367,645	298,122	211,753	176,928
Kuwait	KWT	2,000	1,800	3,110	670
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	0	0	0	154
Lao People's Dem Rep	LAO	10,000	11,800	15,000	15,000
Latvia	LVA	..	..	..	6,571
Lebanon	LBN	3,900	4,000	2,900	9,825
Lesotho	LSO	40	60	60	60
Liberia	LBR	1,800	3,250	2,311	5,143
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	LBY	1,255	2,080	9,500	9,500
Liechtenstein	LIE	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	LTU	..	..	..	4,700
Luxembourg	LUX	0	0	0	0
Macau	MAC	3,268	4,286	4,984	4,984
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	..	..	..	8,472
Madagascar	MDG	65,182	20,000	61,700	83,310
Malawi	MWI	14,000	21,912	34,500	42,922
Malaysia	MYS	81,729	119,642	88,494	100,666
Maldives	MDV	20,932	24,330	21,725	19,108
Mali	MLI	78,000	81,000	60,000	70,000
Malta	MLT	865	1,349	1,230	2,077
Marshall Islands	MHL	0	0	4,200	4,900
Martinique	MTQ	1,584	1,200	806	2,761
Mauritania	MRT	11,357	11,685	6,000	7,944
Mauritius	MUS	7,571	4,725	10,325	8,408
Mexico	MEX	118,967	169,728	242,804	262,401
Micronesia, Fed States	FSM	1,100	1,150	1,150	1,150
Moldova, Rep	MDA	..	..	..	40
Monaco	MCO	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	MNG	0	0	0	0
Morocco	MAR	18,048	30,787	56,000	106,096
Mozambique	MOZ	24,101	20,000	18,000	20,000
Myanmar	MMR	344,000	361,051	580,962	610,000
Namibia	NAM	1,800	2,300	2,700	2,700
Nauru	NRU	0	0	325	325
Nepal	NPL	10,000	17,955	45,000	50,000
Netherlands	NLD	5,500	3,842	4,298	3,743
Netherlands Antilles	ANT	1,000	900	800	800
New Caledonia	NCL	273	270	670	793
New Zealand	NZL	4,786	9,547	4,720	1,928
Nicaragua	NIC	3,120	5,000	5,387	14,502
Niger	NER	3,000	7,090	11,900	7,983
Nigeria	NGA	325,000	469,065	490,000	481,264
Niue	NIU	30	48	320	300
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	0	0	100	100
Norway	NOR	43,018	34,789	27,518	23,552
Oman	OMN	5,300	6,000	18,546	28,003
Pakistan	PAK	162,780	191,456	265,359	272,273
Palau	PLW	0	0	356	364
Panama	PAN	5,000	6,000	8,500	13,062
Papua New Guinea	PNG	500	2,515	10,400	16,000
Paraguay	PRY	3,600	3,900	4,450	4,469
Peru	PER	49,824	49,503	43,750	66,361
Philippines	PHL	1,047,441	781,500	898,000	990,872
Poland	POL	14,353	17,559	16,360	8,640
Portugal	PRT	33,594	35,000	38,700	25,021
Puerto Rico	PRI	2,000	1,447	1,332	1,758
Qatar	QAT	800	1,000	2,050	5,176
Réunion	REU	577	450	500	805
Romania	ROU	4,343	10,132	14,304	8,519
Russian Federation	RUS	..	..	..	316,300
Rwanda	RWA	1,900	1,800	2,913	5,690
Saint Helena	SHN	20	59	65	67
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	1,000	0	650	343
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM	201	135	192	60
Samoa	WSM	6,300	7,860	6,030	12,394
Sao Tome & Principe	STP	341	985	2,150	1,988
Saudi Arabia	SAU	3,870	5,436	10,610	25,360
Senegal	SEN	29,331	34,300	58,122	55,547
Serbia and Montenegro	YUG	8,318	9,910	12,731	1,429
Seychelles	SYC	1,150	1,100	1,229	1,330
Sierra Leone	SLE	11,700	15,437	16,500	17,990
Singapore	SGP	1,919	2,025	836	364
Slovakia	SVK	..	..	..	215
Slovenia	SVN	..	..	..	231
Solomon Islands	SLB	6,000	11,000	11,000	11,000
Somalia	SOM	13,000	15,000	18,900	18,900
South Africa	ZAF	10,500	10,500	10,500	10,500
Spain	ESP	124,027	109,258	87,351	75,434
Sri Lanka	LKA	77,912	69,114	91,000	146,188
St. Lucia	LCA	2,600	2,600	1,799	1,939
St. Vincent & Grenadines	VCT	1,175	2,740	2,300	2,800
Sudan	SDN	4,500	6,522	6,553	27,700
Suriname	SUR	800	2,100	4,100	3,628
Swaziland	SWZ	0	0	100	492
Sweden	SWE	6,996	5,500	3,473	2,783
Switzerland	CHE	658	547	464	522
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	6,000	2,200	7,192	11,292
Taiwan	TWN	259,470	309,981	325,902	314,099
Tajikistan	TJK	..	..	..	200
Tanzania	TZA	35,936	46,417	78,258	92,529
Thailand	THA	74,086	86,188	207,019	354,495
Timor-Leste	TMP	116	0	0	4,057
Togo	TGO	4,300	4,815	12,650	14,120
Tonga	TON	1,800	5,950	5,900	3,500
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	3,500	3,790	4,900	7,297
Tunisia	TUN	13,105	27,000	55,724	50,815
Turkey	TUR	29,000	62,284	32,000	33,614
Turkmenistan	TKM	..	..	..	611
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	1,110	1,330	1,530	1,624
Uganda	UGA	26,900	42,804	43,946	57,862
Ukraine	UKR	0	0	0	120,000
United Arab Emirates	ARE	6,000	8,285	10,984	15,543
United Kingdom	GBR	21,443	23,309	21,582	17,847
United States	USA	140,538	190,000	290,000	290,000
Uruguay	URY	1,100	2,304	3,300	4,023
Uzbekistan	UZB	..	..	..	4,800
Vanuatu	VUT	40	45	300	300
Venezuela	VEN	22,221	29,000	32,500	44,302
Viet Nam	VNM	317,440	330,000	800,000	1,000,000
Virgin Islands	VIR	450	450	404	370
Western Sahara		0	0	0	0
Yemen	YEM	5,000	7,595	5,000	12,200
Zambia	ZMB	51,000	33,004	27,000	23,833
Zimbabwe	ZWE	800	800	1,146	1,804

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Source

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI). More information available online at http://www.fao.org/fi/statist/fisoft/fishers.asp