Figures in italics are updated in 2003
| Country | Economically active population | Total employment | Labour structure by percent | Labour structure | Structure of the economy (% GDP) | Work-related fatal accidents by sector | 3 days' absence | |||||||||||||||
| amount | percent | amount | percent | Agriculture | Industry | Service | Agriculture | Industry | Service | Agriculture | Industry | Service | Agriculture | Industry | Service | Fatal accidents reported to the ILO | 3 days' absence accidents reported to the ILO | Fatalities | Lower limit (0,19 %) | Upper limit (0,10 %) | Average | |
| Bahrain | 295,000 | 45.7 | 147,740 | 3 | 35 | 62 | 4,432 | 51,709 | 91,599 | 1 | 30 | 74 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 1,456 | 23 | 12,242 | 23,260 | 17,751 | |
| Cyprus | 309,300 | 46.8 | 287,000 | 42.6 | 12.9 | 22.4 | 64.7 | 37,023 | 64,288 | 185,689 | - | - | - | 8 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 1,794 | 45 | 23,423 | 44,503 | 33,963 |
| Egypt | 23,000,000 | 34.9 | 16,183,000 | - | 29 | 22 | 49 | 6,670,000 | 5,060,000 | 11,270,000 | 17.4 | 31.5 | 51.1 | 1,414 | 1,073 | 1,397 | 149 | 45,343 | 3,884 | 2,044,337 | 3,884,240 | 2,964,288 |
| Iran | 19,000,000 | 30.7 | - | 33 | 25 | 42 | 6,270,000 | 4,750,000 | 79,800,000 | 20.9 | 31.2 | 47.9 | 1,329 | 1,007 | 867 | 3,198 | 1,683,158 | 3,198,000 | 2,440,579 | |||
| Iraq | 6,000,000 | 27.5 | - | 12 | 8 | 80 | 720,000 | 480,000 | 4,800,000 | 25 | 41 | 42 | 153 | 102 | 595 | 850 | 447,158 | 849,600 | 648,379 | |||
| Israel | 2,210,000 | 1,761,900 | 2 | 23 | 75 | 35,238 | 405,237 | 1,321,425 | 5 | 24 | 41 | 7 | 86 | 164 | 300 | 82,511 | 257 | 135,388 | 257,237 | 196,313 | ||
| Jordan | 1,150,000 | 22.3 | - | 10 | 26 | 64 | 115,000 | 299,000 | 736,000 | 2.4 | 25.6 | 72 | 24 | 63 | 91 | 32 | 15,718 | 179 | 94,227 | 179,032 | 136,630 | |
| Kuwait | 1,300,000 | 63.6 | 1243126 | 1 | 9 | 90 | 12,431 | 111,881 | 1,118,813 | 1 | 56 | 43 | 3 | 24 | 139 | 2645 (all) | 165 | 86,888 | 165,087 | 125,987 | ||
| Lebanon | 1,300,000 | 35.8 | - | 14 | 27 | 58 | 182,000 | 351,000 | 754,000 | 11.9 | 22 | 66.1 | 39 | 74 | 93 | 206 | 108,680 | 206,492 | 157,586 | |||
| the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | 1,500,000 | 28.6 | - | - | 17 | 29 | 54 | 255,000 | 435,000 | 810,000 | 5 | 50 | 45 | 54 | 92 | 100 | 247 | 129,853 | 246,720 | 188,286 | ||
| Morocco | 11,000,000 | 39.6 | 4,168,400 | - | 50 | 15 | 35 | 5,500,000 | 1,650,000 | 3,850,000 | 14.8 | 32.7 | 52.6 | 1,166 | 350 | 477 | 9 | 1,409 | 1,993 | 1,049,053 | 1,993,200 | 1,521,126 |
| Oman | 850,000 | 32.4 | 79,200 | 50 | 22 | 29 | 39,600 | 17,424 | 22,968 | 4 | 52 | 44 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 7,862 | 14,937 | 11,399 | |||
| Qatar | 233,000 | 30.2 | - | 3 | 28 | 69 | 6,990 | 65,240 | 160,770 | 2 | 39 | 59 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 35 | 18,552 | 35,248 | 26,900 | |||
| Saudi Arabia | 7,000,000 | 34.7 | - | 12 | 25 | 63 | 840,000 | 1,750,000 | 4,410,000 | 7 | 52 | 41 | 178 | 371 | 547 | 1,096 | 576,800 | 1,095,920 | 836,360 | |||
| the Syrian Arab Republic | 5,000,000 | 32.1 | - | 40 | 20 | 40 | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 25.2 | 31.9 | 42.9 | 424 | 212 | 248 | 884 | 465,263 | 884,000 | 674,632 | |||
| Tunisia | 4,000,000 | 42.9 | 2,635,000 | - | 22 | 23 | 55 | 880,000 | 920,000 | 2,200,000 | 12.9 | 28 | 59 | 187 | 195 | 273 | 114 | 36,438 | 654 | 344,421 | 654,400 | 499,411 |
| Turkey | 22,359,000 | 35.3 | 21,594,000 | 34.0 | 38 | 38 | 24 | 8,205,720 | 8,205,720 | 5,182,560 | 16 | 24.6 | 59.4 | 1,740 | 1,740 | 643 | 1,252 | 3,850 | 4,122 | 2,169,401 | 4,121,863 | 3,145,632 |
| the United Arab Emirates | 1,400,000 | 58.1 | 1,779,000 | 8 | 32 | 60 | 142,320 | 569,280 | 1,067,400 | 2 | 55 | 53 | 30 | 121 | 132 | 283 | 149,061 | 283,217 | 216,139 | |||
| Yemen | 5,000,000 | 29.3 | - | 40 | 12 | 48 | 2,000,000 | 600,000 | 2,400,000 | 16.1 | 42.8 | 41.1 | 424 | 127 | 298 | 849 | 446,737 | 848,800 | 647,768 | |||
| Total | 112,906,300 | 48,635,240 | 33,915,754 | 26,785,779 | 122,181,224 | 7,191 | 5,679 | 6,117 | 1,876 | 191,164 | 18,986 | 9,992,504 | 18,985,757 | 14,489,130 | ||||||||