thousands of persons - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's manufacturing employment was 910.7 thousands of persons as of April 2026. 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 (Cat. 6150.0) - manufacturing employed persons, seasonally adjusted and updated quarterly.
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.
Higher is better
Source: ABS Labour Account (Cat. 6150.0) - manufacturing employed persons, seasonally adjusted
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Labour Account (Cat. 6150.0) - manufacturing employed persons, seasonally adjusted), updated quarterly. 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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