thousands of persons - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's manufacturing employment was 868 thousands of persons as of January 2025, and the trend is broadly stable. Total number of people employed in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing jobs tend to be well-paid and drive supply chains. Long-term decline may signal structural economic weakness. Data is sourced from ABS Labour Account / Labour Force Survey and updated annually.
Total number of people employed in the manufacturing sector.
Manufacturing jobs tend to be well-paid and drive supply chains. Long-term decline may signal structural economic weakness.
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Labour Account / Labour Force Survey), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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