According to statistic office, Mongolia has employed 4400 thousand foreign workers from 92 foreign countries with labor contract in the third quarter of 2020. Compared with the same time of the 2019, the number of countries decreased by nine and the number of foreign workers decreased by 6000 thousand persons (57.7%).

Most foreign workers who employed in Mongolia were from China following 6.6 percent from Russian Federation, 5.9 percent from Australia, 4.6 percent from South Korea, 4.2 percent from Vietnam, 4.0 percent from United States, 3.4percent from South Africa, 2.9 percent from Philippines, 2.4percent from Great Britain, 1.7 percent from Japan and remaining 17.3 percent from other countries.

Some 1.7 thousand foreign workers  are working in mining and quarrying sector, 709 workers in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, 614 foreign workers  in education sector, 472 workers in construction sector, 294 workers in manufacturing sector, 217 workers in transportation and storage, 126 in administrative and support service activities, and 0.2 thousand foreign workers in other sectors.