Ulaanbaatar
Foreign workers in Mongolia decreased by 43.9 percent
Economy
Ulaanbaatar.
January 19. /MONTSAME/. In the fourth quarter of 2022, 3.9 thousand foreign
citizens from 95 foreign countries were working in Mongolia with labor contract
with purpose of earning pay or profit or voluntarily without purpose of earning
wage and income.
The number of foreign workers decreased by
1.7 thousand (29.8%) from the same period of the previous year and by 3.1
thousand (43.9%) to compared with the previous quarter. In terms of gender of
all foreign workers with labor contract in Mongolia, 3.2 thousand (81.3%) were
male and 0.7 thousand (18.7%) were female.
In terms of country of all foreign
workers in Mongolia, 35.2% is from People’s Republic of China, 8.5% is from
Russian Federation, 7.8% is from Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 6.2% is from
Republic of Korea, 6.0% is from United States of America, 5.1% is from Republic
of the Philippines, 4.1% is from Republic of South Africa, 4.1% is from
Commonwealth of Australia, 3.8% is from Republic of India and remaining 19.2%
is from other countries.
In terms of the occupation of foreign workers, 2.1 thousand (52.3%) were professionals, 611 (15.5%) were technicians and associate professionals, 556 (14.1%) were managers, 344 (8.7%) were craft and related trades workers, 200 (5.1%) were plant and machine operators, and assemblers, 117 (3.0%) were elementary occupations, 31 (0.8%) were clerical support workers, 22 (0.6%) were services and sales workers.
Source: National Statistical Office
