Annual average number of people employed Japan 2022, by industry

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 27, 2023
In 2022, around 10.44 million people were employed in the manufacturing industry in Japan on average, representing the economic sector with the largest number of the employed population. The wholesale and retail trade industry had about the same number employees in that year.

Annual average number of people employed in Japan in 2022, by industry (in 1,000s)

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Release date

January 2023

Region

Japan

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Figures include the number of self-employed workers, family member workers, and regular and non-regular employees.

Employed people refer to those who worked for pay or profit or worked as unpaid family workers for at least one hour during the reference week and who were with jobs but not at work during the reference week.

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