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(56,582 posts) Tue Jun 28, 2016, 08:45 PM Jun 2016

Huh. China and the US have the same % of their workforces in manufacturing [View all]

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).

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Huh. China and the US have the same % of their workforces in manufacturing [View all] Recursion Jun 2016 OP

Misleading is it not. Wellstone ruled Jun 2016 #1

What's remotely misleading about that? Recursion Jun 2016 #4

Yup,that's where I was going. Wellstone ruled Jun 2016 #7

Chinese labor force vs US labor force... cherokeeprogressive Jun 2016 #2

US labor force is about 160 million; China's about 800 million (nt) Recursion Jun 2016 #5

Chinese factories are very different Major Nikon Jun 2016 #3

Sounds like India (nt) Recursion Jun 2016 #6

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