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Table 097A (Labor, Foreign Employ.)
Migration  for Foreign Employment(Source)(Gender)(Manpower)  (2000 - 2008)
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                                          Year                                    Category  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007   2008(a)
Employment Placements (Number) 182,188 184,007 203,773 209,846 214,709 231,290 201,948 218,459 252,021
Source;  Licensed Agents   ()     75.0 74.0 73.0 72.0      
Source;  Other   ()     25.0 26.0 27.0 28.0      
Male      (Number) 57,793 59,751 70,726 74,089 79,929 93,896 90,170 103,482 128,821
Male      ( % ) 32.8 32.6 34.7 35.5 37.5 40.6 44.7 47.4 51.1
Female  (Number) 122,395 124,137 132,984 134,714 133,774 137,394 111,778 114,974 123,200
Female  ( % ) 67.5 67.5 65.3 64.5 62.5 59.4 55.3 52.6 48.9
Average No. of Migrant travellers per day  499 504 558 575 588 634 553 595 690
Migration travellers of all departures (% ) 34.8 37.2 37.2 35.0 31.4 31.3     n.a.     n.a.     n.a.
Migrant Employment by skills (%)                  
 Professional 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.7 1.1
Middle level 2.4 2.0 2.2 3.6 3.1 3.5 3.3 1.8 3.6
Clerical & related  3.2 3.3 3.6 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.9 2.0 2.7
Skilled Labour 20.0 20.0 22.3 22.7 21.4 20.2 22.3 24.4 26.0
Unskilled Labour  19.6 18.1 17.9 21.1 20.1 18.1 20.2 23.9 24.0
Housemaids 54.5 56.0 53.2 48.6 51.5 54.1 49.4 46.9 43.1
Estimated stock of foreign employment (Rs) 853,000 932,500 970,000 1,003,600 1,008,776 1,221,763 1,446,133 1,442,455 1,792,368
Foreign employment of total labour force (% ) 12.5 13.8 13.6 13.2 13.2 16.7 19.0 21.9 23.7
Foreign employment of total employed (% ) 13.5 15.0 14.9 14.3 14.5 17.2 20.4 23.3 25.0
Migrant remittances (Rs. Mn.) 87,707 100,426 123,183 136,438 158,290 195,255 224,663 276,728 316,118
Middle-East  55,252 62,680 75,579 77,579 87,871 111,179 128,282 160,502 189,039
Other 32,455 37,746 47,604 58,859 70,419 84,076 96,381 116,226 127,079
Middle-East of total (% ) 63 62.4 61.4 56.9 55.5 56.9 57.1 58 59.8
As of Export earnings (% ) 20.9 23.3 27.4 27.5 27.1 31 32.6 35.7 35.9
© 2009, KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) 
Source: 
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Key:
(a) Provisional
Revised:  2009(y)/10(m)/10(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
      Former Head, Department of Management Studies
      University of Peradeniya.