China: migrant workers by industry 2022

This statistic shows the distribution of migrant workers in China in 2015 and 2022, by industry. In 2022, around 27.4 percent of all migrant laborers in China had been working in the manufacturing industry.

Distribution of migrant workers in China in 2015 and 2022, by industry

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

China

Survey time period

2015 and 2022

Supplementary notes

* Including occupations such as housekeepers, cooks, kindergarten teachers, masseurs, cleaners, delivery service personnel, car washers, printing and copying services, etc.
** Share calculated by Statista.

The data have been collected through a survey which covered around 238,000 rural workers from 31 provinces, 1,587 districts and 8,480 villages.

Migrant laborers are defined as people who leave their place of origin for a period longer than six months in a bid to find employment elsewhere. They either stay in their home province or move to another province to find work.

Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.

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