APD | Mongolia records 4,600 foreign workers with labour contract

By APD writer Alice

Mongolia had 4,600 foreign workers from 95 foreign countries employed with labor contract by December 2019, including persons in employment work for pay or profit and persons in volunteer work without pay or profit.

Of the total, 3,800 (82.5 percent) were male and 800 (17.5 percent) were female.

16.5 percent of the foreign workers in the country were persons aged 45-49 years and only 0.4 percent were persons aged 20 years or less.

From the previous quarter, the number of foreign workers decreased by 5,800 people or 55.6 percent. Foreigners engaging in seasonal activities of mining and quarrying sector fell by 1,800 (50.5 percent), foreign workers in construction sector dropped by 1,700 (89.6 percent), and those in wholesale, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles sector declined 1,200 (61.7 percent).

Of total foreign workers by the end of 2019, 1,800 (38.3 percent) worked in mining and quarrying sector, 990 (21.5 percent) in education sector, 759 (16.5 percent) in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motocycles sector, 267 (5.8 percent) in processing industries sector, and 197 (4.3 percent) in construction sector.

Guest workers in Mongolia came from China (36.2 percent), Australia (8.8 percent), Russia (7.1 percent), South Korea (6.1 percent), the US (5.3 percent) and Vietnam (4.3 percent), among others.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)