Compared with the same period of the previous year, the number of countries increased by 6, while the number of foreign workers decreased by 1.1 thousand people or 10.3 percent. Out of foreign workers in Mongolia, 9.0 thousand or 93.1 percent were male and 0.6 thousand or 6.9 percent were female.

Breakdown of foreign workers shows that 69.6 percent from the People's Republic of China, 4.4 percent from Australia, 3.3 percent from South Korea, 3.1 percent from the Russian Federation, 2.6 percent from USA, 2.2 percent from People’s Republic of Vietnam, 1.8 percent from Philippines, 1.7 percent from Canada, 1.4 percent from England and 9.9 percent from other countries.

Compared to the same period of previous year, the number of foreign workers increased by 91 or 27.7 percent from Australia, by 88 or 2.1 times higher from Philippines, by 49 or 29.7 percent from the People’s Republic of Vietnam, by 36 or 37.1 percent from England, by 8 or 3.3 percent from USA, while it decreased by 167 or 36.0 percent from the Russian Federation, by 131 or 1.9 percent from the People's Republic of China, by 18 or 5.3 percent from South Korea and by 11 or 6.1% percent from Canada.

In the first half of 2018, there are 2.6 thousand foreign workers or 27.0 percent are working in mining and quarrying, 2.1 thousand workers or 21.8 percent in construction, 2.1 thousand workers or 21.6 percent in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, 0.8 thousand workers or 8.0 percent in manufacturing, 0.7 thousand workers or 6.7 percent in education and 1.4 thousand workers or 14.9 percent in other sectors of economic activity.

Source: nso.mn