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Australia's manufacturing employment was 869 thousands of persons as of January 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 / 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.
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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