PUTRAJAYA: The number of jobs increased by 2.4% in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023 to 8.83 million compared to 8.62 million in Q2 2022, according to the of Statistics Malaysia Department on Saturday (Aug 14).
Following this, Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said an upward trend in the number of filled jobs was observed with an increase of 2.5% to record 8.64 million jobs in Q2 2023 compared to 8.42 million jobs in Q2 2022.
On the filled jobs scenario during Q2 2023, he said the mining and quarrying sector led the way with the highest growth rate of 3.6%, followed by manufacturing at 3.1% and agriculture at 3.0%. "More than half of the job vacancies were in the manufacturing sector with 108,000 vacancies, while agriculture ranked second with 30,700 job vacancies," he said.
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