All individuals age 16 and older who are employed in paid positions or who are seeking paid employment.

This is the definition of active population.

The whole working age population (over 16) is divided between actives and inactives. Actives are those who are either employed or actively looking for a job (hence actives comprise both employed and unemployed individuals), while inactives are those who are not employed and are not jobsearching either, for example, students, househusbands or housewives, etc.

Labor Force is the answer

early settlements on the subcontinent. both the indus and the ganges rivers carried rich silt from the mountains to the plains. when the rivers flooded, the silt spread over the plains and made the soil in the river valleys fertile for farming.

the arab empire adopted the muslim religion as their main belief. arabs would influence the people from the territories they invaded towards islam (the muslim belief).

nevertheless, throughout the history of the arab empire, rulers brought intellectual individuals from other religions to their centers of learning. these other foreigners included jews, christians, greeks, persians, and indians.   these resulted in the adoption of important knowledge developed by these cultures by the arabic empire. for example, the works of aristotle were translated from greek to arab and indian scientists brought the numerical concept of "zero" to the arabs.

nowadays, 93% of the arab population is muslim, which at the same time is subdivided in sects including the sunni, zaini, alawi, shia. the remaining 7% is composed mainly of christians.