Some statistics about immigrant workers in Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ As of December, 2014, a number of foreign nationals working in Mongolia was recorded to be at eight thousand people from 87 countries. It showed a 892 people and 14 countries decrease against the previous year. Among the workers with labour agreements, 34.6 percent were from China, 22.9 percent--from North Korea, 7.4 percent--from Russia, 6.4 percent--from South Korea, 5.7 percent--from Vietnam, 4.0 percent--from the USA, and 19.0 percent--from other countries. Compared to the previous year, a number of workers from Vietnam decreased by 16.9 percent, from the DPRK--14.0 percent, from Russia--11.8 percent, from the USA--10.2 percent, from S.Korea--6.9 percent, and from China--by 3.0 percent. Some 1730 immigrant workers, or 21.6 percent, were working in construction, 1,624 people,or 20.4 percent--in extractive industries, 1,118 people or 14.0 percent--in processing industries, 1,056 people or 13.2 percent--in wholesale and retail markets and in auto-maintenance, 908 people or 11.4 percent --in educational spheres, 477 or 6.0 percent--in transportation and storage activities, and 1,064 people, or 13.4 percent, were engaged in other fields of activities.