ILO SafeWork - Global Estimates of Fatalities... , 2002

Occupational Accidents, 2002

Asia, according to ILO Regions

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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

Afghanistan 10,000,000 37.3 - 70 15 15 7,000,000 1,500,000 1,500,000 52 33 15 1,484 318 186 1,988 1,046,316 1,988,000 1,517,158

Armenia 1,476,400 38.9 739,900 41.3 16.7 42 305,579 123,563 310,758 28.7 32.6 38.7 26 27 18 9 90 70 37,075 70,442 53,759

Azerbaijan 2,927,300 39 3,701,500 34 15 51 1,258,510 555,225 1,887,765 18.8 33.2 48 267 118 234 44 123 619 325,576 618,595 472,085

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

Bangladesh 56,014,000 46 54,597,000 66 12 22 36,034,020 6,551,640 12,011,340 26.2 25.2 48.7 12,576 878 949 12 2,879 14,403 7,580,362 14,402,689 10,991,526

Brunei 111,955 - 2 29 69 2,239 32,467 77,249 2 45 53 1 4 6 11 5,913 11,235 8,574

Cambodia 6,000,000 52.5 - 74 7 19 4,440,000 420,000 1,140,000 39.6 18.8 41.6 1,550 56 90 1,696 892,579 1,695,900 1,294,239

China 705,200,000 56.7 699,570,000 56.3 50 24 26 349,785,000 167,896,800 181,888,200 17.6 49.4 32.9 28,333 35,258 10,004 17558* 8811* 73,595 38,734,086 73,594,764 56,164,425

Cook Islands 5,994 9.2 18 72.8 551 1,079 4,364 0 0 0 1 359 682 520

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

Fiji 235,000 235,000 27.8 44 8 48 103,400 18,800 112,800 20 24.6 55.4 36 3 9 48 25,009 47,517 36,263

Georgia 2,367,000 46.8 1,731,100 40 20 40 692,440 346,220 692,440 29.2 13 57.8 147 73 86 306 161,083 306,058 233,571

Hong Kong 2,811,002 1 44 54.88 240 63,286

India 458,720,000 47.2 419,560,000 43.2 65 12.5 22.5 272,714,000 52,445,000 94,401,000 26.2 26 47.8 27,817 13,845 6,514 211 0 48,176 25,355,777 48,175,977 36,765,877

Indonesia 91,324,911 87,050,000 42.6 45 16 39 39,172,500 13,928,000 33,949,500 19.5 43.7 36.7 13,671 1,866 2,682 1076* 7757* 18,220 9,589,245 18,219,565 13,904,405

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

Japan 67,870,000 53.8 65,140,000 5 30 65 3,257,000 19,542,000 42,341,000 3 42 55 1,844 142,994 2,077 1,093,236 2,077,149 1,585,193

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

Kazakhstan 7,000,000 46.4 6,127,000 23 27 50 1,409,210 1,654,290 3,063,500 10.5 34.9 54.6 118 362 175 277 5,064 655 344,886 655,283 500,084

Kiribati 7,870 - - 71 3 24 5,588 236 2,046 30 8 - 2 0 0 2 1,128 2,143 1,636

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

Kyrgyzstan 1,762,539 41.4 1,704,900 55 15 30 937,695 255,735 511,470 37.7 26.7 35.6 199 54 63 64 398 316 166,542 316,429 241,486

Laos 3,040,041 53.94 - 76 7 17 2,310,431 212,803 516,807 53.5 22.5 24 806 29 41 876 460,886 875,684 668,285

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

Macao 207,100 50.1 201,000 1 33 66 2,010 66,330 132,660 1 34 65 1 9 10 6 3,676 20 10,563 20,070 15,316

Malaysia 8,569,200 39.6 8,599,600 34 23 43 2,923,864 1,977,908 3,697,828 10.9 46.4 42.7 1,020 265 292 1,273 84,065 1,578 830,314 1,577,597 1,203,955

Mongolia 1,300,000 48.9 792,500 40 21 39 317,000 166,425 309,075 37 20.7 42.4 111 22 24 157 82,816 157,351 120,084

Myanmar (Burma) 24,000,000 53.9 18,359,000 65 10 25 11,933,350 1,835,900 4,589,750 59.9 8.9 31.2 4,165 246 363 0 440 4,773 2,512,284 4,773,340 3,642,812

Nepal 11,000,000 50.4 - 81 3 16 8,910,000 330,000 1,760,000 40.1 21.2 38.7 3,110 44 139 3,293 1,733,079 3,292,850 2,512,964

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

Pakistan 35,230,000 27.5 35,934,000 44 17 39 15,810,960 6,108,780 14,014,260 27 23.7 49.2 5,518 819 1,107 72 271 7,444 3,917,752 7,443,728 5,680,740

Papua New Guinea 2,000,000 43.5 2,000,000 43.5 76 10 14 1,520,000 200,000 280,000 29.4 38.4 32.2 530 27 22 579 304,947 579,400 442,174

the Philippines 53,272,000 37.6 30,109,000 40.3 22 37.7 12,133,927 6,623,980 11,351,093 17.1 30.6 52.2 4,235 888 897 240* 50080* 6,019 3,167,942 6,019,090 4,593,516

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

the Republic of Korea 21,604,000 19,994,000 20.8 40.5 38.7 4,158,752 8,097,570 7,737,678 5.1 42.5 52.4 1,451 1,085 611 2,212 49,302 3,148 1,656,713 3,147,755 2,402,234

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

Singapore 1,931,800 63.9 1,869,700 1 29 70 18,697 542,213 1,308,790 0.2 34.6 65.2 7 73 103 99 4,148 183 96,093 182,576 139,334

Solomon Islands 26,842 - - - 46 9 45 12,347 2,416 12,079 - - - 4 0 1 6 2,941 5,587 4,264

Sri Lanka 6,218,304 5946200 37 23 40 2,200,094 1,367,626 2,378,480 20.7 27.3 52 768 183 188 37 2,142 1,139 599,471 1,138,995 869,233

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

Tajikistan 1,778,000 28.8 1,143,000 50 20 30 571,500 228,600 342,900 18.7 24.6 56.7 121 48 43 40* 955* 212 111,653 212,141 161,897

Thailand 33,560,100 52.5 32,140,000 52.5 54 15 31 17,355,600 4,821,000 9,963,400 11.2 39.3 49.5 6,057 646 787 610 51,415 7,490 3,942,225 7,490,227 5,716,226

Tonga 35,033 35.9 - 54 4 51 18,918 1,401 17,867 31.3 14.8 53.9 7 0 1 8 4,317 8,202 6,259

Turkmenistan 2,340,000 50.8 - 44 19 37 1,029,600 444,600 865,800 27.8 46.1 26.1 218 94 107 420 220,995 419,890 320,442

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

Uzbekistan 10,000,000 41.6 8,157,500 44 20 36 3,589,300 1,631,500 2,936,700 33.5 24.6 41.9 761 346 364 1,471 774,190 1,470,960 1,122,575

Viet Nam 39,000,000 50.3 36,994,000 68 12 21 25,155,920 4,439,280 7,768,740 25.4 34.5 40.1 8,779 595 614 9,988 5,256,847 9,988,010 7,622,429

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 1,721,493,691 1,540,504,540 839,750,036 315,319,446 543,556,003 126,579 60,604 30,058 26,276 582,020 219,318 115,430,492 219,317,934 167,374,213

Updated by AS. Approved by JT. Last modification: 24 January 2004.

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
Afghanistan	10,000,000	37.3	-		70	15	15	7,000,000	1,500,000	1,500,000	52	33	15	1,484	318	186			1,988	1,046,316	1,988,000	1,517,158
Armenia	1,476,400	38.9	739,900		41.3	16.7	42	305,579	123,563	310,758	28.7	32.6	38.7	26	27	18	9	90	70	37,075	70,442	53,759
Azerbaijan	2,927,300	39	3,701,500		34	15	51	1,258,510	555,225	1,887,765	18.8	33.2	48	267	118	234	44	123	619	325,576	618,595	472,085
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
Bangladesh	56,014,000	46	54,597,000		66	12	22	36,034,020	6,551,640	12,011,340	26.2	25.2	48.7	12,576	878	949	12	2,879	14,403	7,580,362	14,402,689	10,991,526
Brunei	111,955		-		2	29	69	2,239	32,467	77,249	2	45	53	1	4	6			11	5,913	11,235	8,574
Cambodia	6,000,000	52.5	-		74	7	19	4,440,000	420,000	1,140,000	39.6	18.8	41.6	1,550	56	90			1,696	892,579	1,695,900	1,294,239
China	705,200,000	56.7	699,570,000	56.3	50	24	26	349,785,000	167,896,800	181,888,200	17.6	49.4	32.9	28,333	35,258	10,004	17558*	8811*	73,595	38,734,086	73,594,764	56,164,425
Cook Islands	5,994				9.2	18	72.8	551	1,079	4,364				0	0	0			1	359	682	520
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
Fiji	235,000		235,000	27.8	44	8	48	103,400	18,800	112,800	20	24.6	55.4	36	3	9			48	25,009	47,517	36,263
Georgia	2,367,000	46.8	1,731,100		40	20	40	692,440	346,220	692,440	29.2	13	57.8	147	73	86			306	161,083	306,058	233,571
Hong Kong	2,811,002				1	44	54.88										240	63,286
India	458,720,000	47.2	419,560,000	43.2	65	12.5	22.5	272,714,000	52,445,000	94,401,000	26.2	26	47.8	27,817	13,845	6,514	211	0	48,176	25,355,777	48,175,977	36,765,877
Indonesia	91,324,911		87,050,000	42.6	45	16	39	39,172,500	13,928,000	33,949,500	19.5	43.7	36.7	13,671	1,866	2,682	1076*	7757*	18,220	9,589,245	18,219,565	13,904,405
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
Japan	67,870,000	53.8	65,140,000		5	30	65	3,257,000	19,542,000	42,341,000	3	42	55				1,844	142,994	2,077	1,093,236	2,077,149	1,585,193
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
Kazakhstan	7,000,000	46.4	6,127,000		23	27	50	1,409,210	1,654,290	3,063,500	10.5	34.9	54.6	118	362	175	277	5,064	655	344,886	655,283	500,084
Kiribati	7,870		-	-	71	3	24	5,588	236	2,046	30	8	-	2	0	0			2	1,128	2,143	1,636
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
Kyrgyzstan	1,762,539	41.4	1,704,900		55	15	30	937,695	255,735	511,470	37.7	26.7	35.6	199	54	63	64	398	316	166,542	316,429	241,486
Laos	3,040,041	53.94	-		76	7	17	2,310,431	212,803	516,807	53.5	22.5	24	806	29	41			876	460,886	875,684	668,285
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
Macao	207,100	50.1	201,000		1	33	66	2,010	66,330	132,660	1	34	65	1	9	10	6	3,676	20	10,563	20,070	15,316
Malaysia	8,569,200	39.6	8,599,600		34	23	43	2,923,864	1,977,908	3,697,828	10.9	46.4	42.7	1,020	265	292	1,273	84,065	1,578	830,314	1,577,597	1,203,955
Mongolia	1,300,000	48.9	792,500		40	21	39	317,000	166,425	309,075	37	20.7	42.4	111	22	24			157	82,816	157,351	120,084
Myanmar (Burma)	24,000,000	53.9	18,359,000		65	10	25	11,933,350	1,835,900	4,589,750	59.9	8.9	31.2	4,165	246	363	0	440	4,773	2,512,284	4,773,340	3,642,812
Nepal	11,000,000	50.4	-		81	3	16	8,910,000	330,000	1,760,000	40.1	21.2	38.7	3,110	44	139			3,293	1,733,079	3,292,850	2,512,964
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
Pakistan	35,230,000	27.5	35,934,000		44	17	39	15,810,960	6,108,780	14,014,260	27	23.7	49.2	5,518	819	1,107	72	271	7,444	3,917,752	7,443,728	5,680,740
Papua New Guinea	2,000,000	43.5	2,000,000	43.5	76	10	14	1,520,000	200,000	280,000	29.4	38.4	32.2	530	27	22			579	304,947	579,400	442,174
the Philippines	53,272,000	37.6	30,109,000		40.3	22	37.7	12,133,927	6,623,980	11,351,093	17.1	30.6	52.2	4,235	888	897	240*	50080*	6,019	3,167,942	6,019,090	4,593,516
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
the Republic of Korea	21,604,000		19,994,000		20.8	40.5	38.7	4,158,752	8,097,570	7,737,678	5.1	42.5	52.4	1,451	1,085	611	2,212	49,302	3,148	1,656,713	3,147,755	2,402,234
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
Singapore	1,931,800	63.9	1,869,700		1	29	70	18,697	542,213	1,308,790	0.2	34.6	65.2	7	73	103	99	4,148	183	96,093	182,576	139,334
Solomon Islands	26,842	-	-	-	46	9	45	12,347	2,416	12,079	-	-	-	4	0	1			6	2,941	5,587	4,264
Sri Lanka	6,218,304		5946200		37	23	40	2,200,094	1,367,626	2,378,480	20.7	27.3	52	768	183	188	37	2,142	1,139	599,471	1,138,995	869,233
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
Tajikistan	1,778,000	28.8	1,143,000		50	20	30	571,500	228,600	342,900	18.7	24.6	56.7	121	48	43	40*	955*	212	111,653	212,141	161,897
Thailand	33,560,100	52.5	32,140,000	52.5	54	15	31	17,355,600	4,821,000	9,963,400	11.2	39.3	49.5	6,057	646	787	610	51,415	7,490	3,942,225	7,490,227	5,716,226
Tonga	35,033	35.9	-		54	4	51	18,918	1,401	17,867	31.3	14.8	53.9	7	0	1			8	4,317	8,202	6,259
Turkmenistan	2,340,000	50.8	-		44	19	37	1,029,600	444,600	865,800	27.8	46.1	26.1	218	94	107			420	220,995	419,890	320,442
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
Uzbekistan	10,000,000	41.6	8,157,500		44	20	36	3,589,300	1,631,500	2,936,700	33.5	24.6	41.9	761	346	364			1,471	774,190	1,470,960	1,122,575
Viet Nam	39,000,000	50.3	36,994,000		68	12	21	25,155,920	4,439,280	7,768,740	25.4	34.5	40.1	8,779	595	614			9,988	5,256,847	9,988,010	7,622,429
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	1,721,493,691		1,540,504,540					839,750,036	315,319,446	543,556,003				126,579	60,604	*30,058*	26,276	582,020	*219,318*	*115,430,492*	*219,317,934*	*167,374,213*