This is interesting but it doesn’t tell the whole story.  Maybe in a future post we could research jobs by country per capita.  North Korea has one of the highest military jobs per capita in the world.  Much of where a countries jobs come from would be based on their exports and what they specialize in.

In the debate about were jobs come from know how most countries employ their citizens could provide some valuable information.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed — that’s including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. “The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,” as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 — approximately one year before the start of the recession — to the most recent unemployment data available today.