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

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

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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