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The Johns Hopkins Center for <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Society</strong> Studies | ccss.jhu.edu<br />
Figure 1.<br />
<strong>Civil</strong> society organization<br />
workforce as a share of the<br />
economically active<br />
population, by country,<br />
1995-2000<br />
36 countries<br />
Netherlands<br />
Belgium<br />
Ireland<br />
U.S.<br />
U.K.<br />
4.4%<br />
8.5%<br />
10.9%<br />
10.4%<br />
9.8%<br />
14.4%<br />
Israel<br />
8.0%<br />
France<br />
7.6%<br />
SOURCE: Lester M. Salamon, S.<br />
Wojciech Sokolowski, and Associates,<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Society</strong>: Dimensions of the<br />
Nonprofit Sector, Volume Two<br />
(Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press,<br />
2004).<br />
Norway<br />
Sweden<br />
Australia<br />
Germany<br />
7.2%<br />
7.1%<br />
6.3%<br />
5.9%<br />
Country-specific data, including data<br />
published after 2004 can be found in<br />
the Center for <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Society</strong> Studies<br />
publications database.<br />
Finland<br />
Austria<br />
Argentina<br />
Spain<br />
5.3%<br />
4.9%<br />
4.8%<br />
4.3%<br />
Japan<br />
4.2%<br />
Italy<br />
3.8%<br />
South Africa<br />
3.4%<br />
Egypt<br />
2.8%<br />
Peru<br />
2.5%<br />
South Korea<br />
2.4%<br />
Colombia<br />
2.4%<br />
Uganda<br />
2.3%<br />
Kenya<br />
2.1%<br />
Tanzania<br />
2.1%<br />
Czech Rep.<br />
2.0%<br />
Philippines<br />
1.9%<br />
Brazil<br />
1.6%<br />
Morocco<br />
1.5%<br />
Paid staff<br />
India<br />
Hungary<br />
1.4%<br />
1.1%<br />
Volunteers<br />
Pakistan<br />
1.0%<br />
Slovakia<br />
0.8%<br />
Poland<br />
0.8%<br />
Romania<br />
0.8%<br />
Mexico<br />
0.4%<br />
Percent of economically active population
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