The total population of Pakistan is about 135.6 million. The ratio between male and female is equal. The majority of the population are young people. Approximately 90.05 million were of working age.
According to government statistics the labour force in Pakistan was estimated at 39.4 million of which the industrial labour force constituted 6,005,487, agriculture represented 17,518,204 and service 10,586,309.
After a decade of promoting foreign investment, Thailand now proclaims itself as Asia’s fifth economic ‘dragon’. Since 1991, the country’s annual GDP growth has been above 7%. For many third-world countries, Thailand’s success story reaffirms the paradigm of the ‘‘NIC’’ model of capitalist development in Asia.