Huh. China and the US have the same % of their workforces in manufacturing

[Recursion]

About 9.4% of the Chinese labor force is employed in manufacturing, compared to about 9.2% in the US. Meanwhile in India, only about 5 million people are employed in manufacturing (less than half of the absolute number employed in manufacturing in the US).

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Misleading is it not.

US population300 million plus,China 1.6 billion?

[Recursion]

4. What's remotely misleading about that?

What's really interesting is that we manufacture pretty much exactly as much as China does, with that much smaller workforce.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Yup,that's where I was going.

Units per man hour,USA blows them away.

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Chinese labor force vs US labor force...

China 129,348,606

US 30,360,000

That about right?

[Recursion]

5. US labor force is about 160 million; China's about 800 million (nt)

[Major Nikon]

3. Chinese factories are very different

They tend to be small and focus on labor intensive tasks. The focus isn't really to make goods as efficiently as possible, but rather to make them as inefficiently as possible to employ the greatest number of people.

[Recursion]

6. Sounds like India (nt)